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 ad tech industry, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ continue.

ITIF’s fall seminar course will explore core emerging technologies that are reshaping our world and the public policy challenges and opportunities influencing their development and application. The course is open to congressional and federal staff only.

Brazil’s Digital Markets Bill promises to tame tech giants, but in reality, it threatens to import Europe’s flawed regulatory experiment—punishing innovation more than protecting consumers

Economic evidence continues to show positive effects of firm size on innovation. Scale matters for innovation and economic growth, and antitrust policy should not be constrained by the “big is bad” notions of today’s antitrust populists.

If enacted, the draft law may inadvertently harm Vietnamese consumers, stifle digital innovation, and complicate bilateral trade relations between the United States and Vietnam to the detriment of both nations.

The EU’s overbroad interoperability mandates target U.S. tech firms, delay new features for European users, and open the door for China to challenge Western tech leadership.

The antitrust procedural framework can be improved by measures that create a less burdensome and more objective evidentiary process, as well as provide investigated parties with greater access to the Commission’s complete file.

DOJ’s proposed breakup never made sense. Judges are supposed to apply the law, not simply deliver the results desired by progressives and populists.

DMA is not an effective tool of competition policy. On the contrary, it has resulted in demonstrable consumer welfare losses, chilled procompetitive behavior, and even harmed small businesses. What’s more, it has done so by imposing obligations and penalties that inexcusably target America’s leading technology companies.

Watch now for a virtual panel with top experts who will discuss the landmark Google Search decision, its implications for the future of search, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ continue.