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Competition policy uses economic analysis to enhance our understanding of how firm behavior affects social welfare. Scholars featured on this site consider how technology markets function, and the special issues raised by networks, platforms, interoperability, and bundling by firms like Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

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TAP Academics

Gregory L. Rosston
Stanford University
Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Networks and Infrastructure, Broadband, Wireless

Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley
Innovation and Economic Growth, Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Open Source, Copyright and Trademark

Ilya Segal
Stanford University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Competition Policy and Antitrust

Carl Shapiro
University of California, Berkeley
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Patents

Daniel Sokol
University of Southern California
Competition Policy and Antitrust

James Speta
Northwestern University
Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Networks and Infrastructure

Christopher Sprigman
New York University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Copyright and Trademark

Daniel Spulber
Northwestern University
Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust

Guofu Tan
University of Southern California
Competition Policy and Antitrust

David Teece
University of California, Berkeley
Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Copyright and Trademark

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TAP Blog

William Kovacic on the United States’ Antitrust Transformation

George Washington University Law Professor and former Chair of the FTC, William Kovacic outlines the transformation happening in American antitrust policy.

TAP Staff Blogger

February 16, 2022

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Fourteenth Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy

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Fact Sheets

Comparative Antitrust

In the United States, “antitrust law” refers to the body of State and Federal laws that prohibits unlawful agreements and practices by firms with market power that harm competition. Europe, Asia and Latin America call the governance of market competition “competition law”.

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E.U. Takes Aim at Big Tech’s Power with Landmark Digital Act

“It is possible that even the U.S. Congress will now conclude that they are done watching from the sidelines when the E.U. regulates U.S. tech companies and will move from talking about legislative reform to actually legislating.” — Anu Bradford, Professor of Law, Columbia University

Anu Bradford
The New York Times
March 24, 2022

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Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Market Failure Perspective

Digital platforms collect consumer data by default. Changing the default setting to require to consumers to “opt-in” to allow use of their data could create a market in data, but large platforms would still enjoy too much market power.

By: Nicholas Economides, Ioannis Lianos

April 24, 2021

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