Antitrust

Join ITIF for a panel discussion with international experts on a forthcoming report analyzing a decade of previously uncompiled KFTC enforcement data, what its findings mean for U.S.–Korea economic relations, and how policymakers in both countries should respond.

The Proposed Amendment would have the effect of “protecting” startups by frustrating larger firms from acquiring their founders and employees. Adopting such a policy would predictably chill incentives to innovate.

Mandating broader transparency around algorithmic or personalized pricing requires congressional legislation to weigh costs and benefits, and the FTC should revise its policy statement to target law violations without restricting legitimate personalized pricing.

Joseph V. Coniglio talks with Georgetown emeritus professor Steven C. Salop about the rise of strategic oligopoly models, the evolving lawyer–economist relationship, and debates over consumer welfare versus broader goals like democracy and inequality.

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.

AI companies’ destructive book scanning neither forecloses competition nor threatens humanity’s cultural inheritance. The FTC should not waste resources investigating it.

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.