Publications
The letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, and addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, explains how the combination of Quad and LSC is a merger-to-monopoly in the long-run magazine printing market and an anticompetitive merger in the book printing market.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute writes to Chair Schakowksy and ranking member McMorris Rodgers of the House Energy and Commerce committee in order to offer its thoughts on the discussion that has begun on new comprehensive privacy legislation.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute has filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit Court in the case Breiding v. Eversource Energy. In the brief, Open Markets supports a class-action lawsuit by New England residents against two vertically-integrated energy utility corporations, Eversource Energy and Avangrid.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is pleased to announce that Sally Hubbard, a highly regarded antitrust expert and former enforcer, is joining Open Markets as Director of Enforcement Strategy.
Read More“We are disappointed by the D.C. Circuit's decision to affirm the District Court's ruling permitting AT&T to acquire Time Warner,” said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. Open Markets' amicus brief was cited three times in the D.C. Circuit’s decision to allow AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
Read MoreOpen Markets filed an amicus brief to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of New England residents in Breiding v. Eversource Energy.
Read MoreThe world is eating more farmed fish, and global grain traders intend to control the fish feeding business much as they control the feeding of other farm animals. In her latest piece, Open Markets' reporter Claire Kelloway looks examines the fastest growing form of food production in the world — aquaculture.
Read MoreOpen Markets has submitted a public comment on February 27, 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the FTC’s 3-2 clearance of the Staples-Essendant Merger.
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Austin Frerick argues on The American Conservative that America’s agricultural system has become extractive, and more and more of the profits are flowing to a few. It is little wonder that monopolies and corporate farms have grown more powerful at the expense of workers and family farmers.
Read MoreOpen Markets senior fellow Lina Khan and Columbia law professor David Pozen have published a new paper criticizing the idea that digital platforms should be treated as “information fiduciaries.”
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Matt Stoller offers his view of the Federal Trade Commission's new task force to monitor the tech giants to WIRED magazine. "They don’t want to do their No. 1 job," asserts Stoller. "Which is to police markets for unfair and anticompetitive behavior.”
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