antitrust and competition
GameStop, the Cantillon Effect, and America’s Corrupt Financial Plumbing
The GameStop frenzy, far from a morality tale of the people showing up Wall Street elites, should show that something is seriously off-kilter about...
Is There a Problem with Competition?
A Stigler Center webinar explores instances where competition turns toxic, whether antitrust policy needs reform, and potential paths forward.
Is there such a thing as...
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.
Around...
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...
