Executive director Barry Lynn spoke at the 2024 Stigler Antitrust Conference at the University of Chicago, which focused on “Antitrust, Regulation and the Diffusion of Innovation.” Lynn participated in a panel titled “The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement?,” along with Zephyr Teachout, Cristina Caffarra, Matt Stoller, and Sohrab Ahmari.
Open Markets Europe director Max Von Thun was interviewed on “The Tech Brief” podcast, where he discussed how Europe can better approach competition policy and directed listeners to a recently published manifesto, which outlined how the European Union can put antimonopoly at the heart of its policy agenda.
Executive director Barry Lynn and senior fellow Johnny Ryan joined the first in-depth public discussion in Brussels of the European Commission’s failure to use its full antimonopoly authority to address pressing threats posed by concentration.
On March 31, executive director Barry Lynn participated in a discussion about antitrust priorities at the CRA Brussels Conference on “Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times” with fellow antitrust experts
Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway amplifies the inflated prices consumers are paying for meat, and the industry’s struggles.
Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on a panel about collective bargaining in the gig economy at a Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission workshop on competition and labor.
Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein warns that further consolidation of financial exchanges could shrink market competition and harm consumers.
Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway’s work was profiled in a video and story about the concentrated chicken industry’s worker safety problem.
Senior Reporter & Researcher Claire Kelloway stars in a video segment about corporate consolidation of the meatpacking industry.
Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley called for the enforcement of the all-but-lapsed Robertson-Patman Act (RPA), enacted in the 1930s by discussing RPA’s ability to level the playing field for small retailers competing against the likes of Walmart and Amazon.