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The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?

Hubert Horan
In the first of three interrelated articles, transportation consultant Hubert Horan discusses Uber's "uncompetitive economics." There is no real innovation in the company's business...
Antitrust and Competition

High-Priced Acquisitions of Tech Startups Do Not Always Stimulate More Innovation

ProMarket writers
What seems to be a big reward to innovation ultimately reduces the incentive to innovate, argues a new Stigler Center working paper by Krishna...
Antitrust and Competition

How Israel's Antimonopolists Helped Take Down Benjamin Netanyahu

Matt Stoller
The corruption exposed by Israeli antimonopolists has been a key driver of Benjamin Netanyahu's current political woes.        If you pay any attention to the weird...
Antitrust and Competition

Why a New Digital Authority Is Necessary

Luigi Zingales
A recent Washington Post op-ed claimed that creating a digital authority to regulate Big Tech would be a disaster because of high costs and the...
Antitrust and Competition

A Tale of Hubris and Excess: How Uber Fooled Portland Regulators

Mike Isaac
In an excerpt from his new book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber," New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reveals the details of Uber's...
Antitrust and Competition

How Amazon Rigs Its Shopping Algorithm

Stacy Mitchell
For companies that sell on Amazon’s platform, “winning the Buy Box”—the area on the right-hand side of the page that says “Add to Cart”...
Antitrust and Competition

Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem

Hal Singer
In attempting to address legitimate privacy concerns, Google could be trying to monopolize surveillance.       As Big Tech’s leviathan wraps its tentacles around online markets,...
Antitrust and Competition

The Intersection of Privacy, Data, and Competition

Dina Srinivasan
The issues around technology, data, and privacy are complicated, but solving them is less tricky that many companies would have Congress believe. Editor’s note: The...
Antitrust and Competition

The Humbling of Mark Zuckerberg

Asher Schechter
Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony this week illustrated just how much Facebook's top brass still underestimate the public anger against the company. Congress, however, is still...
Antitrust and Competition

Vertical Media Mergers Are a Serious Threat to Freedom of Speech

Daniel R. Shulman
Antitrust regulators should stop mergers where a firm owning the means of transmission acquires a provider of content. The people that own the pipes...
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