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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

Jean Tirole
Toulouse University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Open Source, Copyright and Trademark, Patents, Future of Work

Marshall Van Alstyne
Boston University
Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Open Source

Barbara van Schewick
Stanford University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Internet, Networks and Infrastructure, Net Neutrality

Khuong Minh Vu
National University of Singapore
Innovation and Economic Growth, Competition Policy and Antitrust

Philip J. Weiser
University of Colorado
Innovation and Economic Growth, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Net Neutrality

Michael Whinston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust

Joshua Wright
George Mason University
Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust

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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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Competition Policy and Free Trade: Antitrust Provisions in PTAs

Why do preferential trade agreements (PTAs) include terms concerning antitrust or competition policy? Some argue that governments use competition policy to protect local firms against foreign competition. A better theory is that trade makes it hard for national authorities to enforce competition policy.

By: Anu Bradford, Tim Buthe

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