Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
The Schumpeterian perspective represents a new intellectual framework for antitrust reforms that focus less on competition for competition's sake and more on enabling firm dynamic capabilities to power productivity, innovation and global competitiveness. The Schumpeter Project’s mission is to advance dynamic competition policy with boosting firm dynamic capabilities as a central concern for antitrust enforcement. (Read more.)
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Featured Publications
Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee Regarding Artificial Intelligence Trends in Innovation and Competition
AI provides no reason at this time for either heavy-handed enforcement of our antitrust laws or fundamental changes to them. The right approach is to maintain antitrust law’s traditional focus on promoting competition and innovation by proscribing collusive and exclusionary anticompetitive conduct.
No, Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act Will Not Lead to More Competition or a Better Economy
Neo-Brandeisians aim to reinvigorate the Robinson-Patman Act to protect small businesses. But the act doesn’t address any anticompetitive conduct that isn’t already covered by the Sherman Act, and enforcing it will only harm consumers and limit growth. Rather than repeat history’s mistakes, the next Congress should repeal the act once and for all.
Comments to Japan’s Fair Trade Commission Regarding the Smartphone Software Competition Promotion Act
The SSCP’s broad per se prohibitions and limited cybersecurity exemption are likely to chill the very innovative behavior that is key to allowing Japan’s smartphone markets to thrive, and risk targeting a leading firm of one of its closest allies.
The Case for Cracking Down on Large Corporations and Promoting Small Businesses Is Deeply Flawed
A Democratic staff report from the House Small Business Committee claims that small businesses are better for the economy and large firms are harming it. But most of the report’s assertions stem from flawed research, and its policy recommendations would be detrimental.
Corporate Concentration Is Good for Productivity and Wages
Despite claims by anticorporate neo-Brandeisians, corporate concentration appears positively correlated with higher productivity and wages. So, the push to break up large companies is antiworker and anti-middle class.
Events
May 19, 2025|Register Now
The DOJ v. Google Ad Tech Decision: Did the Court Get It Right?
Please join ITIF for a virtual panel with top experts who will discuss this important decision, its implications for the ad tech space, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ escalate.
April 16, 2025
The DMA’s Annual Review: A Global Perspective on Digital Competition Regulation
Watch the virtual discussion featuring experts from diverse regulatory landscapes unpack the DMA’s real-world impact, analyze global trends in digital regulation, and evaluate whether ex-ante rules are the right path forward for competition.
April 10, 2025
The DOJ v. Google Saga Continues: What’s at Stake in the Search Remedies Trial?
Watch now for a virtual panel with top experts who will discussed the key issues going to trial, the implications for Google and the future of search, and what the case means for U.S. antitrust law and the broader “big tech” debate.
March 4, 2025
Competition Policy in the Trump Administration: The Future of Conservative Antitrust and the FTC
Watch the webinar event where panlists discussed how antitrust enforcement might change with the new administration, whether the Trump enforcers will carry forward any of the neo-Brandeisian policies, and what the future may have in store for the FTC.
November 13, 2024
Korea’s Digital Market: Domestic Regulation and Global Impacts
Watch now for an expert panel discussion on how South Korea’s regulatory choices will shape its future as a global tech leader, and what the broader implications will be for its strategic positioning in the U.S.-China rivalry.
Director, Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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More From the Center
May 2, 2025|Blogs
Ad Tech Decision Against Google Rests on Shaky Legal Reasoning
The ruling against Google in the ad tech case has been heralded as a straightforward effort to hold Big Tech accountable. But in reality, the mixed decision is a regrettable misstep that rests on shaky legal foundations and risks severe knock-on consequences for innovation.
April 30, 2025|Blogs
The EU’s Apple and Google DMA Rulings Deal a Double Blow to European Consumers and Transatlantic Relations
The European Commission is seemingly oblivious to concerns about innovation and user experience as it forces through DMA decisions against Apple and Google.
April 28, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
A Tale of Two Populisms: Deconstructing the Neo-Brandeisian and National Conservative Models of Antitrust Law and Political Economy
The prevailing left and right populisms—neo-Brandeisian and national conservatism—do not present desirable models for grounding the next generation of U.S. antitrust law and share important key flaws.
April 24, 2025|News Clips
What's at Stake in Meta's Antitrust Trial?
CBSNews interviewed Joe Coniglio on the impact of Meta being accused of breaking competition law with its purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp. This interview was widely syndicated by the CBS family of networks and stations.
April 24, 2025|News Clips
FTC Has a Tough Road Ahead to Prove Consumer Harm and Undo Meta Acquisitions
The Washington Examiner quoted Joe Coniglio arguing against the FCC anticompetitive accusations against Meta.
April 23, 2025|News Clips
Europe Hits Meta, Apple With $790M in Antitrust Fines
Yahoo! Finance cited Joe Coniglio’s statement criticizing the EU’s fining of Apple and Meta.
April 14, 2025|Blogs
Antitrust and AI: Key Takeaways From My Congressional Testimony
How I learned to stop worrying and love the AI revolution.
