Tag Archives: antitrust and competition

The Curious Case of Private Equity in Health Care’s Market Failures

Over the last year, the United States government has demonstrated increased concern about private equity’s involvement in health care. Barak Richman and Richard…
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Why Google’s Dominance in Search Persists – And How to Fix It

A new field experiment sheds light on why Google continues to dominate the search engine market despite regulatory interventions and the availability of…
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Does Media Consolidation Put the Fourth Estate at Risk?

The concentration of news media has spurred concerns about their ability to protect the marketplace of ideas integral to the functioning of democracy.…
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A TikTok Ban Would Raise Ad Prices on Meta and Harm Small Business

In new research, Dante Donati and Hortense Fong find that the brief TikTok outage in January benefited Meta as advertisers turned to its…
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Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality

Over the past four decades, the United States has seen rising market power, slowing productivity growth, and deepening wealth inequality. In new research,…
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How Both the Chicago School and Ordoliberalism Softened on Big Businesses

How Both the Chicago School and Ordoliberalism Softened on Big Businesses

In new research, Ryan Stones revisits the alleged disagreement between two influential schools of antitrust on how to handle big businesses. Instead of…
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