Ethan T. Tran
Intern
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Ethan Tran is an antitrust policy intern with ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy and a political science student at Davidson College.
Recent Publications
October 19, 2026
Pricing Algorithms Are Not Inherently Anticompetitive
Pricing software can facilitate collusion, but the relevant question is how firms use it. Policymakers should target practices that undermine competition rather than prohibit a technology with legitimate uses.
October 2, 2026
California’s Paramount Settlement Doesn’t Stop at Antitrust
More troubling than any effects on competition the decree will have is what it does to antitrust itself: It uses competition law to enact industrial policy goals that have little to do with competition.
