antitrust and competition
Taming Big Tech: What Can We Expect From Germany’s New Antitrust Tool?
Targeted at Big Tech, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms rebalances the power between the competition watchdog and those firms.
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Reviewing Facebook’s Mergers Could Have Negative Ripple Effects
How the pre-merger notification regime came about and why we should be careful about discouraging useful mergers.
December 2020 was an extraordinary period in US...
Should Antitrust Promote Political Liberty? A Stigler Center Webinar Features Fukuyama, McCarty, Teachout, and Nylen
A Stigler Center panel explores the challenges of designing an antitrust enforcement regime that could contend with the political power of corporate monopolies.
Should antitrust...
The Antitrust Cases Against Facebook And Google: In Search of a Smoking Gun
In the Microsoft antitrust case, Bill Gates’ emails were perhaps the government’s most compelling evidence. Now, as regulators pursue antitrust cases against Facebook and Google,...
The Great Deplatforming: Can Digital Platforms Be Trusted As Guardians of Free Speech?
Online social media platforms accepted the role of moderating content from Congress in 1996. The Great Deplatforming that occurred after January 6 was less...
Digital Platforms May Be Monopolistic Providers, But They Are Not Infrastructure
Social media platforms are not infrastructure nor natural monopolies, and they should be regulated only if they have monopolistic power and abuse it. Free...
The Digital Markets Act Represents a Change in Europe’s Approach to Digital Gatekeepers
The Digital Markets Act is not a competition tool as such. Rather, it is a market regulation whose main objective is to guarantee equal...
Pentagon Report Points to Two Major Risks to National Security: Consolidation and Shareholder Capitalism
A Pentagon report released earlier this month warns that concentrated supply chains, offshoring, and a "business climate that has favored short-term shareholder earnings” have...
There Are Lots of Competition Problems on the Internet. Parler’s Takedown Is Not One of Them.
Parler’s antitrust case against Amazon is doomed, and there is no basis for Congress to impose any special duties on Amazon to deal with...
“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it or leave...
