In response to Judge Richard Leon's decision in the AT&T/Time Warner case today, the Open Markets Institute has released the following statement:
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Read the transcript of News Corp Chief Executive, Robert Thomson's remarks at the Open Markets Institute Conference, Breaking the News: Free Speech & Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly.
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Read the transcript of New York Times CEO, Mark Thompson's remarks at the Open Markets Institute Conference, Breaking the News: Free Speech & Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly.
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In this report, Open Markets Institute explores the historical role of competition policy in protecting independent journalism in America.
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A carefully crafted reading list, thanks to OMI staff and "Breaking the News" participants.
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Open Markets Institute and the Tow Center at the Columbia School of Journalism gather a variety of speakers to discuss how the power and business models of large online and telecom intermediaries affect the ability of reporters and editors to gather and distribute news in the 21st century.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief opposing Facebook’s motion to seal records in its case against the former startup Six4Three.
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In the Yale Law Journal Forum, Lina Khan writes about America's market power problem.
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Read the Open Markets Institute's public comments to the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for the agency's roundtable on anticompetitive regulations.
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In this issue of The Corner, we explain Open Market's new campaign to address the various threats Facebook poses to American society and democracy. We then detail how Warren Buffett's dominant position in making and selling mobile homes will benefit from the newly-passed bank deregulation bill, look at how powerful retailers like Walmart drive down wages at their suppliers, and track the building support for OMI's recent "single-price" health care proposal. Finally, we invite you to OMI's upcoming conference on the intersection of news, tech monopoly, and democracy.
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Open Markets Institute submitted a comment letter to to the Antitrust Division Roundtable Examining the “Consumer Costs of Anticompetitive Regulations”.
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In the Yale Law Journal Forum, Sandeep Vaheesan writes about challenging the empirically deficient economism that has had an extraordinary influence on antitrust law over the past forty years.
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Lina Khan was quoted in Vox's piece on Trump vs. Bezos.
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Today the Supreme Court tilted the competitive playing field away from honest businesses and towards abusive ones.
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Lina Khan explains how Amazon, a company famous for low prices, can still behave in an anticompetitive manner.
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In this issue, we examine how platform monopolies are trying to use trade policy to escape responsibility for the content posted on their sites. We also look at the cornering of the police body camera market and at the airline industry's plans to engage in price discrimination based on your social media profile.
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Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.
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We write to express concern about H.R. 5645—Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018. After close review, the Open Markets Institute has concluded that the bill would dangerously reduce the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to protect American citizens from concentrations of power that threaten them politically and economically. Worse, it would do so exactly at a moment when we need a stronger and more active FTC. A broad, bi-partisan consensus acknowledges that America has a big monopoly problem.
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