The Role of the State

“In 10 Years, the Surveillance Business Model Will Have Been Made Illegal”

The opening panel of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference discussed the source of digital platforms’ power and what, if anything, can be done...

Glen Weyl: "The Very Structure of Capitalism Is Inherently Monopolistic"

In an interview with ProMarket, Glen Weyl, co-author of the wildly ambitious (and wildly controversial) new book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a...

Why the T-Mobile–Sprint Merger Will Likely Lead to Higher Prices and Lower Quality

The rise in prices of mobile services risks imposing a higher tax on most households, higher than any possible tax rebate they might receive.  The...

Luigi Zingales Proposes Creation of Interdisciplinary Committee on Digital Platforms Regulation

The Committee on Internet Platforms Regulation, proposed Zingales would be comprised of academics and experts on the industry.     At the end of the Stigler Center’s conference...

What Used Books Can Tell Us about Competition in Online Markets

It is not every day that economists can identify a market where consumers are significantly better off after large price increases. Nonetheless, a new...

Data Workers of the World, Unite!

With solutions to the threats of digital monopolies currently looking unlikely to come from the state, law and economics scholars Eric Posner and Glen...

Former Italian PM and European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti: Why Antitrust Enforcement Is “More Vigorous" in Europe Than in the US

Why is Europe so much more vigorous than the US when it comes to antitrust enforcement? In an interview with ProMarket, Monti, who served...

DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”

In a keynote address at the Stigler Center's Antitrust and Competition: Digital Platforms and Concentration conference, the US Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General...

ProMarket Is Live at the 2nd Annual Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference: Digital Platforms and Concentration

Check out the live coverage by the ProMarket team of the invitation-only 2018 Antitrust and Competition: Digital Platforms and Concentration conference, hosted by Chicago...

Noncompete Agreements Boost Investment But Stifle Start-Ups

While noncompetes raise investment significantly, they also measurably hamper entrepreneurial activity, according to a new working paper from Chicago Booth’s Jessica S. Jeffers.     Editor's note: This...

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