antitrust and competition
Special Message From Margrethe Vestager on the Importance of Antitrust
A special message from Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, delivered to the participants of the Stigler Center's conference on concentration in America.
Margrethe...
Richard Posner: “The Real Corruption Is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich”
In a keynote interview during the Stigler Center’s conference on concentration in America, Judge Posner said: “You are not going to have people competing with...
“No Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been a Major Factor in Explaining Poor U.S. Economic Performance”
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series on concentration in America, Chicago Booth professor Dennis Carlton strikes a skeptical note concerning claims that increased...
Live Blog: "Is There a Concentration Problem in America?" – Day 1
The Stigler Center is hosting a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference in Chicago that focuses on this very question, bringing together dozens of top academics, policymakers,...
Netanyahu, Trump, Nixon and the Use of Antitrust to Tame the Media
Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are waging a war against the media. Their tools of choice are the same ones used...
“There Is No Indication That Trump Is Pro-Competition”
A new paper by economists Steven C. Salop and Carl Shapiro explores what antitrust might look like under President Trump. In an interview with...
“Growing Evidence That Some U.S. Regulators May Value the Profits of the Incumbents They Regulate Over Consumer Welfare”
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, we ask Fiona M. Scott Morton of Yale University about the effects of concentration in America and...
“Our Efforts to Deal With Tech Firms' Market Dominance in the U.S. Have Been an Abject Failure”
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, Harvard economist F.M. Scherer answers questions about concentration, antitrust, tech giants, and inequality. "Antitrust agencies have not taken sufficient...
"The Exercise of Market Power Probably Contributes to Economy-Wide Inequality"
In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series on concentration in the U.S., American University law professor Jonathan Baker shares some thoughts on marker power...
"There Is Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been Rising"
Our new interview series: "Is there a concentration problem in America?" On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference that will...
