The Role of the State

Taiwan’s Industrial Policy After the 2024 Presidential Election

Taiwan has a history of implementing industrial policies to successfully encourage the development of internationally competitive high-tech firms. However, the new administration’s efforts to reorient industrial policy to achieve Taiwan’s commercial-cum-defense goal risks harming its economic resiliency.

What’s Ahead For The U.K.’s Industrial Policy Under Labour

The United Kingdom has struggled to implement long-term industrial policies in recent decades, writes Diane Coyle, a trend the new Labour Party promises to...

The TikTok Ban Is a Case Study in American Political Economy 101

Utsav Gandhi relates recent developments in the American government’s ban on TikTok and shows how the case maps over broader debates about conflicts between...

Did the Mouse Outfox the Fox? The Fubo Settlement, Disney, and the Death of the Venu Sports-Streaming Venture

Reviewing the literature pioneered by Richard Gilbert and David Newbery, Steven Salop finds that the recent settlement between sports-streaming services Fubo and the Venu...

The Trends and Cases That Will Define European Antitrust in 2025

Four antitrust and competition experts predict the trends and cases that will define European antitrust in 2025. Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act in 2025 Marco...

The Trends and Cases That Will Define United States Antitrust in 2025

Three antitrust experts predict the trends and cases that will define United States antitrust in 2025. AI competition Robin Feldman, University of California Law San Francisco 2025...

Massachusetts Lawmakers Just Made It Harder for Trustbusters To Break Up the Live-Nation Ticketmaster Monopoly

Diana Moss writes that a new Massachusetts economic development bill with a provision for limiting the transferability of tickets to live events has succumbed...

What the US Learned and the EU Should Consider About National Champions

Bill Baer argues that the United States’ history with promoting national champions through industrial policy shows how protection and the diminution of competition often backfires on the favored companies and the state. He writes that industrial policy must complement competition policy.

How Industrial Policy Gave Us the Sherman Act

Elizabeth Popp Berman writes that the history of the antimonopoly movement and industrial policy in the United States shows that antitrust and industrial policy, currently considered by many to be in conflict, can complement each other in pursuit of shared goals.

Unconditional Revenue-Sharing By Google Would Still Be Anticompetitive Monopolization

Steven C. Salop argues that as part of any remedy outcome from the Google Search case, Google cannot be permitted to enter agreements with...

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