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Antitrust and Competition

The Effective Competitive Constraint Standard

Stavros Makris
The consumer welfare standard, which broadly considers higher output and lower prices as its primary goals, is not well equipped to monitor the numerous...
Antitrust and Competition

Locating Competitive Process Claims in the Consumer Welfare Debate

Andrew I. Gavil
Debates about the consumer welfare standard have failed to produce a consensus around either its scope or an alternative standard. Regardless of the outcome...
Antitrust and Competition

The Life of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Model

Herbert Hovenkamp
“Consumer welfare” as an objective of antitrust law and regulation has its origins in several vague and even conflicting ideas of how to evaluate...
Commentary

Corporate Political Responsibility in a Captured Economy

Claudine Schneider
Most attention on corporate governance has focused on businesses’ social responsibility. Claudine Schneider and Ed Dolan write that businesses need to take into account...
Book Excerpts

How Financial Experts Convince You That They’re the Experts

Alex Preda
In The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media, Alex Preda explores how financial analysts produce their advice and convince audiences...
Antitrust and Competition

Meta-Within Should Be Viewed in the Context of Meta’s Broader Efforts To Monopolize Social Networking

Brandon Nye
A California court recently denied the FTC’s motion to block the Meta-Within merger. Brandon Nye writes that the FTC could have expanded its argument...
Antitrust and Competition

Toward a Market Power Standard for Merger Review

Eric A. Posner
The Stigler Center’s 2023 Antitrust and Competition conference seeks to answer the question: what lays beyond the consumer welfare standard? In advance of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Needs Better Models for Estimating Social Welfare in the Digital Age

Seth G. Benzell
In a forthcoming article, Seth Benzell and Felix Chang explore how antitrust regulators can use insights from a new quantitative model of Facebook that...
Regulation

Destabilizing Digital “Bank Walks”

Naz Koont
Bank regulators have always assumed that bank deposits are ‘sticky,’ but the advent of digital banking is changing that. New research focuses not on...
Regulation

Electricity Markets Must Liberalize if We Are To Decarbonize Energy

Matteo Romagnoli
In new research, Matteo Romagnoli argues that for the electricity sector to decarbonize as part of the broader green transition, regulators must liberalize markets...
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