type here...

Labor

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Read more

How Antitrust Can Better Regulate Thin Labor Markets

Thin markets, characterized by a small number of participants and low transaction volumes, create particular problems for antitrust enforcers. Hiba Hafiz explores...
Read more

How Practical Are Biden’s Proposals to Promote Labor Market Competition?

A new report from the Biden administration lays out ways to increase competition in US labor markets. Will they work?
Read more

Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income

A new working paper examines the relationship between competition policy and the decline in the labor share across the developed world and...
Read more

How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment

A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers...
Read more

How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence

What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The...
Read more

The Ties that Bind Workers to Firms: No-Poach Agreements, Noncompetes, and Other Ways Firms Create and Exercise Labor Market Power

Collusive no-poach agreements are per se illegal, but noncompete clauses are not. Recent research casts doubt on the rationale for this legal...
Read more

Antitrust Should Be Used as a Targeted Response to Employer Concentration, But It Can’t Do Everything

A large and growing body of research demonstrates that employer concentration affects the wages of many American workers. Antitrust is an important...
Read more

The Fall of American Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care

In an excerpt from his new book The Next Shift, University of Chicago historian Gabriel Winant explores how deindustrialization and the decline...
Read more

Antitrust and the FTC: Franchise Restraints on Worker Mobility

As currently formulated, antitrust’s rule of reason approach is not the best tool to deal with vertical noncompete agreements that limit worker...
Read more
123...5Page 1 of 5

LATEST NEWS

Antitrust and Competition

Data is Abundant But is it Accessible to Researchers?

Utsav Gandhi
Despite the wide availability of data, ensuring independent access to data sources has never been more crucial. How can researchers engage in...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Private Labels in Online Marketplaces

Radostina Shopova
On their store shelves, Walmart has its own products under the "Great Value” brand, and Tesco has its own “Everyday Value” products....
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Bolsonaro’s reelection may become a setback for ESG in Brazil

Stephanie Tondo
Social pressures, market forces and elected leaders influence corporate decisions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Journalist Stephanie Tondo examines the...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

2023 Antitrust and Competition Conference: Call for Papers

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center is inviting submissions of short academic articles (up to 3000 words) focused on the development of a legal/economic...
Read more
News

ProMarket Seeks New Deputy Managing Editor

ProMarket writers
We're hiring! Many ProMarket readers will now know that Asher Schechter, former deputy editor at...
Read more

ProMarket is dedicated to discussing how competition tends to be subverted by special interests. The posts represent the opinions of their writers, not necessarily those of the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, or its faculty. For more information, please visit ProMarket Policy.

About Us

Categories

What we are readingAntitrust and CompetitionNewsRegulatory CaptureMediaRent seeking