Publications: Joseph V. Coniglio

Antitrust battles over digital markets have spread well beyond Big Tech to other leading online firms, threatening productivity and dynamism across the digital economy.

To avoid a potentially exorbitant Digital Markets Act fine, Google is changing its spam policy in a way that may degrade Search, providing yet another example of the European Commission compelling American firms to weaken their services.

Thailand’s digital markets exhibit no general market failure that could justify either new ex ante digital antitrust regulation like the PEA or the sort of heavy-handed sector-specific changes to its ex post enforcement framework contemplated by the Proposed Guidelines.

The JFTC has an excellent opportunity to set the global gold standard for competition policy in merger enforcement by issuing guidelines that best foster innovation by fully encouraging the dynamic efficiency benefits that business combinations can bring.

It is not necessarily the case that any given iOS user who paid Apple for one or more in-app purchases or for subscription purchases would have been harmed even if Apple had set anticompetitively high commissions.

This episode of the Creative Discussion podcast features a recent debate between ITIF's Joseph V. Coniglio and Joel Thayer of the Digital Progress Institute on the question of whether the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) would help or hurt innovation and consumer choice. The debate was moderated by veteran tech journalist Nancy Scola and is re-aired here with no substantive edits.

Draft Amendments to Decree 35 appear premature and may have to be reassessed following the outcome of the broader reforms being considered for the Competition Law.

ITIF responded to a market study on qualitative and quantitative thresholds for Big Tech companies and Core Digital Services (CDS).

Rather than resort to heavy-handed content and price regulation to address nonexistent market failures, the CMA should follow the lead of the United States and rely on a tried-and-true, ex post law enforcement framework to address concerns about anticompetitive behavior associated with anti-steering practices by Apple and Google.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts retired Jones Day partner and former DOJ Antitrust Division leader Joe Sims, who recounts how he discovered antitrust in law school, explains the origins and impact of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and forecasts diminished FTC antitrust authority.