The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Villages v. FTC, one of two cases that challenge the FTC’s landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
Read MoreEurope director Max von Thon urges the EU’s next Competition Commissioner to take bold action against corporate monopolies, especially in digital markets, and to establish a clear vision for fostering fair competition and innovation.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at the lessons of the U.S. presidential election, and some next steps. We also explore how the EU’s AI strategy might concentrate even more power in the hands of Big Tech.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at Amazon’s failure to evade any of the three antitrust lawsuits that target its monopoly manipulation of prices across the internet.
Read MoreIn this issue, Open Markets policy counsel Tara Pincock — who helped write the original lawsuit against Google — discusses a potential breakup.
Read MoreIn Project Syndicate’s Big Question, Tara Pincock weighs in on the current state of antitrust law, enforcement, and the courts.
Read MoreOpen Markets submitted a comment to the FTC calling for termination of a 2012 Coopharma consent order and urging the agency to endorse an exemption for employees, contractors and small firms that challenge concentrations of power.
Read MoreIn 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.”
Read MoreOpen Markets files amicus brief in algorithmic price-fixing case involving Las Vegas hotels, Gibson v. Cendyn Group.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.
Read MoreFood program manager Claire Kelloway was quoted highlighting the utter dominance of large corporations in the highly concentrated food markets, like the mayonnaise industry arguing that without antitrust enforcements ensuring fair competition, it's unlikely that these monopolistic structures will diminishing allowing for market-sharing
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreBarry Lynn authors Harper's October 2024 cover story, "The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech."
Read MoreOpen Markets submits comment on USDA's proposal to define unfair practices under the Packers & Stockyards Act.
Read MoreIn this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.
Read MoreOMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in an article in the New York Times on algorithmic price-fixing by companies like RealPage, which helps landlords collude to set rent.
Read MoreOpen Markets reacts to an American Booksellers Association (ABA) motion for the Federal Trade Commission to include Amazon’s monopolistic actions to control the books market in its wider antitrust case against Amazon.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and several civil society partners active in the European Union have published “Rebalancing Europe: A New Economic Agenda for Tackling Monopoly Power,” a new manifesto for the next European Commission and Parliament that sets out how policymakers should more effectively address monopoly power and control in Europe.
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