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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

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TAP Blog

Carl Shapiro Critiques the FTC’s Withdrawal of 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines

UC Berkeley economics professor Carl Shapiro argues that the Federal Trade Commission’s withdrawal of its 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines relies on specious economic arguments regarding elimination of double marginalization.

TAP Staff Blogger

January 21, 2022

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Upcoming Events

25th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium - The Emergent Right to Repair

April 22, 2022, Berkeley, CA

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Fact Sheets

Government Procurement

“Procurement” is the process by which governments choose to obtain and buy goods and services from the private sector.

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For big tech regulation, one-size-fits-all won't work

“You can worry about YouTube, Twitter, any social media platform with content moderation, but that's completely different than what's going on with Amazon and Google. If you lump them together, you're going to get the wrong solution because it's different problems.” — Carl Shapiro, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Carl Shapiro
TechTarget
October 29, 2021

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Understanding Online Markets and Antitrust Analysis

This paper considers the application of traditional antitrust analysis to online markets. This paper identifies several ways in which online markets differ from regular markets. Most online markets are multi-sided, and entry barriers are low.

By: Daniel Sokol, Jingyuan Ma

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