Antitrust / Competition
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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.
Antitrust / Competition Scholars
Anu Bradford
Colleges / Universities: Columbia University
Austan Goolsbee
Colleges / Universities: University of Chicago
Barbara van Schewick
Colleges / Universities: Stanford University
Recent Antitrust / Competition Blog Posts
Recent Antitrust / Competition Academic Article Summaries
Quotes in the News
Athey, S. (2022, July 7). Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence News.“Because technology such as artificial intelligence moves so quickly, it’s hard for the government to keep up. We have to figure out how all branches of government are going to be prepared to guide us through a different age.”
Susan Athey
TAP Scholar
Economics of Technology Professor
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Bradford, A. (2022, March 24). The New York Times.“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
TAP Scholar
Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization
School of Law
Columbia University
Kovacic, W. (2022, January 22). CNBC.“If you don’t do it right now in the coming twelve months, you will never get this opportunity again. And I think not only do they realize they have to deliver, they want to deliver.’”
William E. Kovacic
TAP Scholar
Director, Competition Law Center
Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy
Professor of Law
School of Law
George Washington University
Shapiro, C. (2021, October 29). TechTarget.“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
TAP Scholar
Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy
Professor of Business and Economics
Department of Economics Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Posner, E. (2021, June 22). The Washington Post.“The significance of the ruling goes far beyond the unique setting of college sports. The decision hints at a revival of antitrust law and its application to an area of the economy antitrust law has unjustly neglected — the labor market.”
Eric Posner
TAP Scholar
Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law
School of Law
University of Chicago
