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2025 Antitrust and Competition Conference Livestream

Follow along live with the Stigler Center's 2025 Antitrust and Competition Conference focused on Economic Concentration and the Marketplace of Ideas. The conference takes place...

What Is the Furor Behind Delaware SB 21?

Lawrence A. Cunningham reviews the arguments over Delaware’s recently signed Senate Bill 21, which changes corporate governance law in the state in favor of corporate management, and discusses what developments may come next.

Stigler Center Disclosure Policy

ProMarket's home institution, the Stigler Center, is repromulgating its disclosure policy ahead of its 2025 Antitrust and Competition Policy Conference this Thursday and Friday. You can register to attend the livestream of the conference here.

Trump May Change how the EU Thinks About Antitrust and Free Speech

The new Trump administration has thrust antitrust’s role in protecting free speech into the spotlight. Jan Polański discusses how this development should inform the European Union’s own debates about antitrust and free speech.

Can Antitrust Remedy Big Tech Censorship?

Kaleb Byars argues that while Big Tech censorship may constitute antitrust harm, without reform current law does not provide antitrust agencies or the courts a remedy.

Now Is the Time To Correct Residency Match and (Especially) Other Competition Issues in the Physician Market

Barak Richman writes that the recently announced investigation of the House Judiciary subcommittee for antitrust into the residency match antitrust exemption presents an opportunity...

China’s Regulatory Balancing Act

The following is an excerpt from Angela Zhang's recent book, High Wire, out at Oxford University Press. Please join the Stigler Center on April 3 at 6:30-7:30 pm CT for a conversation with Zhang, where she'll discuss High Wire with Financial Times' China Technology Correspondent Eleanor Olcott. You can register for the livestream of the event here.

A TikTok Ban Would Raise Ad Prices on Meta and Harm Small Business

In new research, Dante Donati and Hortense Fong find that the brief TikTok outage in January benefited Meta as advertisers turned to its platforms to reach users. Small businesses, less able to switch, lost out.

Competition Regulation of Digital Platforms in China

Liyang Hou investigates the recent antitrust enforcement in China’s digital sector and highlights how formalistic dominance assessments and merger reviews have shaped the country’s approach to regulating its platform economy.

Breaking Trust in the Government Will Not Be Efficient in the Long Run

Alan D. Jagolinzer and Jacob N. Shapiro write that the new Trump administration’s efforts to improve government efficiency through the cancellation of contracts and other promises will inevitably raise costs as businesses and investors demand a risk premium to account for lost trust.

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