Digital platforms
Are Google and Facebook Monopolies?
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition.
Google and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 13–20)
This week in political economy.
The backlash against big tech that began in 2017 continues in earnest. The Economist’s cover story this week: “How to...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 5–13)
This week in political economy.
Facebook is embarking on a radical overhaul of its news feed, emphasizing status updates from friends and family and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 22– Jan. 5)
This week in political economy.
In Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz writes about the GOP’s recently-passed tax package, which he dubs “The US Donor Relief...
In Capitalisn’t Pilot, Zingales and Waldock Fret at Prospect of a Monopolist-in-Chief
In the inaugural episode of the new podcast from the Stigler Center and Chicago Booth Review, economists Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales probe the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 16–22)
This week in political economy.
Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Schmidt, who joined Google...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 27–Dec. 2)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The Senate approved the Republican tax bill last night following a series of last-minute amendments, paving the way...
Zingales: Too Much Power in the Hands of Big Tech Could Distort American Democracy
Watch comments by Luigi Zingales from the recent AEI Panel "Should Washington Break Up Big Tech?”
The excessive concentration of power in the hands of the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 3–10)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following reports that the Justice Department might force AT&T to sell Time Warner’s CNN as a...
“Markets Today Are Radically Different Than What We Believe – We Have the Façade of Competition"
A Stigler Center panel explores the implications of big data for competition policy and for consumer welfare.
The business model at the heart of the digital...
