African competition authorities are importing the wrong model of competition enforcement—and doing so without the institutional capacity to make even the right model work. Across the continent, regulators are reaching …
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Not all supposed barriers to entry are created equal. The ones that matter for antitrust are not just costs, advantages, or inputs controlled by leading firms. They are durable impediments …
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When does a discount cross the line from competition to exclusion? That question now sits before a federal district court weighing the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) antitrust case against Visa …
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When a new product or service appears, some public officials default to helicopter regulation. The instinct to “do something, anything” rarely pays off—just ask helicopter parents and their kids. An …
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If regulators could make markets behave simply by watching them more closely, Italy would be about to crack the code. Instead, the Italian government’s latest energy measures suggest something else: …
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Everyone wants faster broadband—no one wants to wait for the permits. Modern communications infrastructure doesn’t stand still. Providers must keep investing in upgrades and expansion to meet consumer demand. Next-generation …
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A familiar concern in antitrust-adjacent debates goes like this: when a company such as Walmart grows large enough, it can strong-arm suppliers into steep discounts. Suppliers, in turn, recoup those …
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Alvin, can you briefly describe your professional background? In my role as chief executive of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCS), I oversee the administration and enforcement of …
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Google may have built the foundation of the modern AI economy—and then published the instructions. In 2017, eight researchers across Google’s Brain and Research divisions released a paper titled “Attention …
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Washington has found its latest villain: “Big Medicine.” The proposed fix? Break it up and hope the pieces behave better than the whole. Americans have real reasons to be frustrated …