Antitrust

A bill proposing ex ante regulation of digital markets in Brazil would harm efficiency and innovation. Given the significance of this bill, the Brazilian legislature should not proceed with a motion to bypass typical civil procedures and debate.

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.

Clear and practical merger guidelines are important for giving businesses predictability and ensuring consistent enforcement in a hugely consequential area of the Canadian economy.

The House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation into South Korea's discriminatory targeting of U.S. tech companies, particularly Coupang, marking an important escalation in Washington's pushback against non-tariff attacks that use regulatory measures to weaken American technology leadership. These attacks—which have cost U.S. tech companies over $30 billion globally in the past decade—disproportionately target American firms through fines, operational restrictions, and forced infrastructure investments while creating openings for Chinese competitors.

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.

Watch now for a virtual panel featuring leading experts who will discuss the future of California's antitrust laws, their implications for national innovation and competition, and how these developments fit into the broader antitrust policy debate.

According to the Center for European Policy Analysis, digital sovereignty would conservatively cost the EU €3.6 trillion ($4.2 trillion) over 10 years.

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.

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.

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.