Why Common Ownership Causes Antitrust Risks

By José Azar, Martin Schmalz & Isabel Tecu –

This article illustrates the extent of present-day common ownership and discusses the economic logic of why common ownership leads to reduced incentives to compete and may cause anticompetitive outcomes. The authors then review some of the empirical evidence to date, discuss critiques of the same and explain the conceptual problems inherent with all potential policy solutions. The legal debate around these findings is discussed by a fast-gr