The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows That Climate Action Is...
By: Victoria H.S.E. Robertson (ProMarket)
Late last year, Austria became the first country to enact a green antitrust provision—an exemption shielding corporate agreements related to...
South Africa News Alert: Price Discrimination and Buyer Power Provisions brought...
African Antitrust
On 13 February 2020, exactly a year since the price
discrimination and buyer power provisions were signed into law, President
Ramaphosa and Minister Patel have...
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...
Why Competition Law Is So Important for Developing Countries
By: Thomas Cheng (ProMarket)
Among the central issues in international competition law is the question of whether developing countries should make competition law enforcement a...
Fighting New Antitrust Rules Is a Bad Move for Big Tech
By: Brooke Fox, Fiona Scott Morton & Gene Kimmelman (ProMarket)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar recently invoked David and Goliath when discussing her fight to pass antitrust legislation to...
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...
Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction
By: Nicolas Petit (Pro Market)
In antitrust policy circles, Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” theory is often mentioned but seldom listened to. The Schumpeterian neglect is...
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...
Final DMA: Now We Know Where We’re Going, but We Still...
By: Lazar Radic (Truth On The Market)
After years of debate and negotiations, European Lawmakers have agreed upon what will most likely be the final iteration...
On Case C-377/20, Servizio Elettrico Nazionale (I): overarching framework or case-specific...
By: Pablo Ibañez Colomo (Chillin' Competition)
The Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale last week (see here for the French version). Because the questions asked...
