Ex-post and ex-ante rules
By: Kevin Coates (21st Century Competition)
The competition rules are commonly referred to as an ex-post instrument; regulation is frequently referred to as ex-ante. The...
“Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying
By Tommaso Valletti (ProMarket)
Research on market power, its causes, and its consequences has received a welcome revival in the past few years. A group of...
A Law & Economics Perspective on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Ben Sperry & Christian Stout (Truth on the Market)
With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, many have already noted her impact on the...
It’s Official: The Draft Bill GWB10
By Rupprecht Podszun, D'Kart
Today, the German Federal Ministry of Economics officially published the draft bill on the new competition law. For months we have...
AMP It Up: As Its Antitrust Critics Grow Louder, Google Dials...
By: Alex Petros (Public Knowledge)
Full disclosure: this blog post was not written with just the best prose and policy prescriptions in mind. There was...
EU Merger Control Reform – What To Expect in 2021 and...
By: Jay Modrall (Informa Connect)
The European Union (EU) has embarked on the most extensive antitrust reform program in its history. The European Commission (Commission)...
The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People
By: Ariel Ezrachi & Gene Kimmelman (ProMarket)
After years of timid enforcement against powerful online platforms, and silence from Congress, we are witnessing the awakening of antitrust...
Restoring Competition in the United States
By: Bill Baer, Jonathan B. Baker, Michael Kades, Fiona M. Scott Morton, Nancy L. Rose, Carl Shapiro & Tim Wu (ProMarket)
Excessive market power plagues the...
Why the Federal Government’s Antitrust Case Against Google Should—and Likely Will—Fail
By: Thom Lambert (Truth on the Market)
On October 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eleven states with Republican attorneys general sued Google for...
How to deal with Big Tech mergers
Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz; Vox EU
Big Tech companies frequently acquire other firms, many of them start-ups. In a recent prominent report, Furman et al. (2019)...
