antitrust and competition
How Antitrust Can Better Regulate Thin Labor Markets
Thin markets, characterized by a small number of participants and low transaction volumes, create particular problems for antitrust enforcers. Hiba Hafiz explores the incoherent,...
Chart of the Week: Both Democrat- and Republican-Nominated Supreme Court Justices Increasingly Ruled Against Antitrust Enforcement
With the upcoming vote to confirm new Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, this week’s chart highlights a new dataset compiled by researchers...
How Practical Are Biden’s Proposals to Promote Labor Market Competition?
A new report from the Biden administration lays out ways to increase competition in US labor markets. Will they work?
A Biden administration report, published...
The Economic Costs of Common Ownership
A new empirical study attempts to estimate the economy-wide welfare costs of common ownership. The authors find that they are large and have risen...
Stigler Conversation: How the Chinese Government Thinks About Big Tech
A Stigler Center discussion between Ling Chen (Johns Hopkins) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), moderated by Wall Street Journal journalist Lingling...
Why Aligning Antitrust Policy With Sustainability is a Moral ImperativeÂ
The looming ecological disaster means that it is time for competition researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and economists to devise competition policies that focus on the...
How to Prevent Big Tech From Hindering Pathbreaking Innovation in the Metaverse
The transition to the metaverse presents a technological paradigm shift akin to the shift from desktop computers to smartphones, but today’s dominant platforms will...
The Consumer Welfare Standard and Antitrust Enforcement: a Response
Alden Abbott, former general counsel of the FTC, argues that, contrary to claims made in a recent ProMarket article, American competition is vibrant and robust....
The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan...
The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows that Climate Action is the Newest Antitrust Frontier
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to environmental sustainability initiatives from...
