antitrust and competition
The House’s Recent Spate of Antitrust Bills Would Change Big Tech as We Know It
If enacted, the five bills that were introduced in the House this month would represent the most dramatic statutory changes to US antitrust law...
How to Tame the Tech Giants: Reverse the Burden of Proof in Merger Reviews
Most tech acquisitions are approved without a hitch, despite growing evidence that they bring little benefit, because regulators are waging an uphill battle to...
Congress’ Antitrust War On China and American Consumers
The latest bills currently debated in Congress regarding Big Tech—the US Innovation and Competition Act that was passed by the Senate this month and...
When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?
A new paper shows that platform mergers can harness network effects at the cost of reducing the platform differentiation that users value.
The societal importance...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets
Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve and promote...
More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market
The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are high and...
Invigorating Competition in Health Care Markets: Is Rate Regulation Needed?
It now appears that market concentration may be the leading cause of America’s health care cost crisis. If the United States is going to...
Fixing a Broken Antitrust Regime
In her new book Antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar explains the origins of US antitrust law, diagnoses how the nation got derailed from the legislative...
The Profit Paradox: “What’s Good for Firms Is Not Necessarily Good for the Workers”
In an interview with ProMarket, Jan Eeckhout discusses his new book The Profit Paradox and explains how market power brings down wages, even if...
Concentration in the EU: Where It is Increasing and Why
Increasing concentration is not unique to the US—recent studies show that concentration is rising in Europe as well, although to a lesser extent than...
