Antitrust

Please join ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy for a virtual fireside chat with Professor David Teece, who will explore how dynamic competition redefines the economic foundations of antitrust and what it means for enforcement to better account for innovation, entrepreneurship, and dynamic capabilities in today’s most consequential cases.

The failure of the Amazon/iRobot transaction, which was opposed by EU and U.S. antitrust authorities, has had catastrophic consequences for the American robotics firm and played into the hands of Chinese robot manufacturing rivals.

The neo-Brandeisian movement cleverly repackages Marxist ideology under the guise of antitrust.

Despite its promise to make Europe’s digital economy fairer and more open, the Digital Markets Act has instead made life online slower, costlier, and more complicated for the very consumers it was meant to protect.

Google’s petition in Epic v. Google raises big questions about key antitrust liability and remedial standards, foreshadowing similar arguments on appeal in the DOJ v. Google search case.

As the KFTC enters its fifth decade, it is clear its mission must evolve—from control to credibility, and from compliance to competitiveness.

Canada’s first major test of its reformed competition law centers on Amazon’s pricing rules, but the Competition Bureau’s case risks punishing a policy that lowers prices for consumers and mistaking competition on the merits for anticompetitive conduct.

Watch now for a virtual panel with top experts who will discuss this landmark decision, its implications for the ad tech industry, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ continue.

Joseph Coniglio speaks about Europe's big tech regulations at an event hosted by Broadband Breakfast.

Post-deal layoffs and price increases do not prove that an acquisition harmed competition, contrary to the recent rhetoric around the Microsoft/Activision deal.