Publications
Reporter Austin Ahlman delves into Google’s ramped up state-level lobbying efforts and surpassing of federal spending, trying to counter legislation like California’s CJPA and sway data privacy and media compensation laws nationwide.
Transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao writes on how ocean freight carriers are exploiting their monopolistic control to hike prices and boost profits, harming U.S. importers, exporters, and small businesses, necessitating stronger regulatory oversight to restore fair pricing.
Phillip Longman reveals in a new article published in The Washington Monthly, that the goal of revitalizing American manufacturing is deeply threatened by financiers who are radically downsizing the nation’s freight rail system in pursuit of short-term profit.
In The Washington Monthly, Dr. Courtney C. Radsch argues that the survival of artificial intelligence hinges on high-quality, human-generated content and data, which means and that journalists, artists, content creators, and analysts, have more leverage to be fairly compensated for their work than they might realize.
In Project Syndicate’s Big Question, Tara Pincock weighs in on the current state of antitrust law, enforcement, and the courts.
In Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle, September 2024, Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a paper, "Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal.”
Karina Montoya shares five takeaways from the initial weeks of the Google ad tech monopoly trial in Tech Policy Press.
As the EU's competition enforcer Margrethe Vestager prepares to step down, Max von Thun writes in the Financial Times that the incoming chief Teresa Ribera must take up the mantle to shape markets in the public interest.
