Antitrust

Please join ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy for a virtual panel with top experts who will discuss this landmark decision, its implications for the social media landscape, and what it means for the U.S. government’s ongoing assaults on Big Tech.

While ITIF commends the CMA for asking whether competition policy is consistent with broader growth and competitiveness goals, in several respects the Discussion Paper appears to condone policies that would run counter to—not ensure—a faster growing and more globally competitive Britain.

A report on inequality commissioned for this year’s G20 summit offers ill-advised antitrust recommendations for reducing income and wealth inequality.

Congress’s attention would be far better spent elsewhere than on overhauling American antitrust law with new digital rules.

Watch now for a fireside chat with Professor David Teece, who explored 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.