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Antitrust and Competition

Does Market Power Lead to Political Power?

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A Stigler Center webinar explores what would be the foundations of a political and economic system that might be more resilient to...
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Antitrust and Competition

Market Power and Money in Politics

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A Stigler Center webinar explores how businesses lobby and compete for political power and whether mergers and industry concentration affect lobbying. 
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Antitrust and Competition

Is There a Problem with Competition?

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A Stigler Center webinar explores instances where competition turns toxic, whether antitrust policy needs reform, and potential paths forward.
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Antitrust and Competition

Should Antitrust Promote Political Liberty? A Stigler Center Webinar Features Fukuyama, McCarty, Teachout, and Nylen

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A Stigler Center panel explores the challenges of designing an antitrust enforcement regime that could contend with the political power of corporate...
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Antitrust and Competition

Lessons from Latin America on Fighting Corruption — a Webinar

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A wave of anti-corruption efforts has swept Latin America in the last few years, leading to high-profile convictions but also facing pushback...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should Antitrust Promote Economic Liberty? A Webinar

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Should antitrust be designed to promote economic liberty? Watch a Stigler Center webinar discussing what such a system might look like, and...
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Regulatory Capture

The Wirecard Saga: Germany’s Enron Moment?

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How did Wirecard go from a “rockstar” to a company that fabricates customers, invents profits, and expropriates investors’ capital? Watch a Stigler...
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Antitrust and Competition

The United States: An Exceptional Case? A Webinar With Stephen Haber, Richard R. John, and Luigi Zingales

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Many see the US as a land where free markets and antitrust enforcement have historically kept monopolies under control. But is that...
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The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities: A Webinar With Lisa Cook

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Michigan State University professor Lisa Cook joined Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss how violence impacts innovation, as well as the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger

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As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust and Rule by Judges

Paul Tucker
The early-1980s Posner-Stigler memorandum to incoming president Reagan’s transition team is interesting for a host of reasons, but most of all in...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should the European Union Require Tech Firms to Adopt a Common Charger?

Federico Innocenti, Martin Peitz
According to a new European Commission directive expected to be approved in the next few months, tech firms will have to use...
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News

Chart of the Week: Economists Don’t Think Congress Should Make Price Gouging Illegal

Brooke Fox
Most economists disagree with a new bill in the US that would set limits on "unconscionably excessive prices," according to a recent...
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Antitrust and Competition

Neoliberal Economists Are Giving Biden Bad Advice on Inflation

Hal Singer
To spare the economy from the pain of further interest rate hikes, the President should aggressively pursue anticompetitive conduct by companies in...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users? 

Randy Picker
The Senate looks to be nearing a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would prohibit gatekeeping digital platforms...
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News

New eBook Revisits George Stigler’s Theory of Regulatory Capture 50 Years Later

Filippo Lancieri, Luigi Zingales
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining...
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News

Firms Gerrymander Ownership of Polluting Plants to Reap Public and Regulatory Benefits

Janet Gao, Ran Duchin, Qiping Xu
New research has discovered that many companies who appear to sell, or ‘divest,’ their toxic plants, actually retain relationships with their buyers....
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