The Open Markets Institute sent two letters signed by more than 100 organizations and scholars to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to appoint FTC commissioners committed to outlawing noncompete clauses and exclusionary contracting.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement asserting that the new lawsuit against Google by state AG’s makes clear that Google threatens free speech and democracy, and highlighting need for structural separation and nondiscrimination rules.
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The president-elect doesn’t need Congress to break up monopoly power.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, writes in The Washington Monthly about how the president-elect doesn’t need Congress to break up monopoly power.
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Open Markets Institute publishes a paper, “Scrambled Eggs and Paralyzed Policy: Breaking Up Consummated Mergers and Dominant Firms,” by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
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Open Markets Institute is pleased to publish an important paper by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
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Open Markets Institute and Family Farm Action Alliance host a virtual briefing on the groundbreaking report, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” written by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, a leading food systems expert.
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Claire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher at the Open Markets Institute, writes in The Intercept about why Tom Vilsack is such a bad choice for Secretary of Agriculture.
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Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, writes in Washington Monthly about two mistakes the FTC made in its antitrust case against Facebook.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement saying: The U.S. v. Facebook complaint is a critical step toward ending the corporation’s dangerous control over the flow of information and stopping its monopolistic pattern of buying, copying, or killing competitors.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.
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Garphil Julien, research associate for Open Markets Institute, and Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, write in American Banker that Visa’s acquisition of Plaid highlights the need for more merger enforcement.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain why the Justice Department should stop a proposed merger among giant publishers, and we discuss our new report on vaccines, which lays out a plan for the Biden administration to stop the next pandemic by reforming the vaccine production system.
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Open Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
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Open Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN.
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Open Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
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