Publications: Joseph V. Coniglio
March 17, 2026
Creative Discussion Podcast: Greg Werden on the DOJ, Merger Guidelines and the Evolving Role of Economists
Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the third episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews longtime antitrust scholar and retired DOJ economist Greg Werden. They discuss Werden’s path from chemistry to economics and his four-decade career at DOJ, discussing both constants and changes in antitrust enforcement.
March 5, 2026
Too Low or Too High? A Transatlantic “Morton’s Fork” for Amazon in Antitrust
The inconsistent and flawed theories of harm on both sides of the Atlantic reflect, to borrow from former FTC Chair Lina Khan, a real “Amazon’s antitrust paradox,” if there ever was one.
February 25, 2026
Comments to UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Google's General Search Services
Amidst this time of increasing technological dynamism and global tensions, and given the special relationship that exists between the United States and the UK, the CMA should reassess how it can implement the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 in a more light-touch way.
February 17, 2026
Creative Discussion Podcast: Alden Abbott on the Chicago School, the Neo-Brandeisian Experiment, and the Future of Conservative Antitrust
Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the second episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews Alden Abbott, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an advisory board member of the Antitrust Education Project. They discuss antitrust’s Chicago Revolution, Neo-Brandeisian enforcement, and the Google & Meta cases.
February 11, 2026
Comments to the Competition Bureau of Canada Regarding the Proposed Merger Enforcement Guidelines
Clear and practical merger guidelines are important for giving businesses predictability and ensuring consistent enforcement in a hugely consequential area of the Canadian economy.
January 29, 2026
Comments to the Competition Bureau of Canada Regarding Anti-competitive Conduct and Agreements Enforcement Guidelines
While the Draft Guidelines generally and correctly focus on condemning only behavior that results in anticompetitive effects, in several specific respects they could be fine-tuned to provide for greater administrability and better limit false positives so as to ensure that innovation and competition flourish in Canada.
January 21, 2026
Korea’s Proposed Fairness Act: Will It Discriminate Against American Firms?
The Korea Fair Trade Commission's past enforcement against U.S. technology firms justifies concerns that the proposed Fairness Act will reflect de facto discrimination against American commerce.
January 20, 2026
Podcast: Creative Discussion, Episode One, With Herb Hovenkamp
Join Joseph Coniglio, director of ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, as he inaugurates Creative Discussion: An Antitrust Podcast by engaging in an in-depth discussion with Herb Hovenkamp, James G. Dinan Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Dubbed the “Dean of Antitrust” by The New York Times, Hovenkamp shares his career journey, insights on his influential Areeda-Hovenkamp Treatise, and perspectives on significant antitrust issues such as the consumer welfare standard and current antitrust litigation targeting Big Tech.
January 16, 2026
Comments to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Regarding Google and Epic Games
The ACCC should accept Epic and Google’s application to settle their longstanding antitrust litigation, and Australia need not be concerned that the flawed catalog-sharing remedy in the United States is not a part of it.
January 13, 2026
Comments to the California Law Revision Commission Regarding the Tentative Recommendation Antitrust Law: Single Firm Conduct
While it is true that state antitrust regimes may go beyond the scope of federal antitrust law, that does not justify the radical departure from the Sherman Act contemplated by the Recommendation in terms of the principles, standards, and rules that should define sound antitrust enforcement at all levels of government.
