Competition
The Non-Revolving Door Between the SEC and the Plaintiffs’ Bar
Nowhere does the “revolving door” spin more quickly than at the Securities and Exchange Commission. But, even at the SEC, not all doors spin...
Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction
Schumpeter’s indirect entry theory fits the average tendencies of competition in digital industries. When the model is added to standard assumptions and suspicions, a...
Four Key Takeaways from Thursday’s Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing
Held just before the House’s antitrust subcommittee is expected to release its long-anticipated report on digital platforms, Thursday's hearing yielded clues as to which...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode, Featuring Paul Krugman: A Reading List
On this episode, Kate and Luigi talk with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about his new book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: a Coronavirus Reading List
In this episode, Kate and Luigi give an economist's view of the coronavirus outbreak: How should we think about the economic trade-offs of interventionist...
How to Regulate Digital Platforms: A Database
Over the past couple of years, many antitrust authorities commissioned expert groups or released working papers addressing different areas of digital policy. For the...
Can Horizontal Mergers Actually Boost Competition?
Research by Dirk Hackbarth and Bart Taub shows the potential to merge in the future increases competition prior to merging. Hence--in contrast to the...
With Amex Ruling, Modern IO Theory Makes Important Inroads with SCOTUS
SCOTUS Forum. In this second post in our roundtable of op-eds on the Supreme Court’s June 25 Amex decision, UChicago’s Randy Picker looks at...
140 Years of Antitrust: "Competition" in Democratic and Republican Platforms
In the second installment of our four-part series about the history of antitrust language in American political discourse, we review the evolution of economic language...
