Tag: competition law
Increasing monopoly power poses a threat to Canada’s post-pandemic economic recovery
Garros Gong, University of Waterloo
Canada is currently grappling with a significant economic issue: market concentration. A select few...
JetBlue merger with Spirit not cleared for takeoff – why Justice...
Joe Mazur, Purdue University
The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened to block a proposed deal that would see...
Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Vanderbilt University
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own words play a starring role in the government’s case to break up his social network.
“It...
Vital Signs. Google shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could
Richard Holden, UNSW
You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there...
How Nigeria’s new competition law will benefit the economy – and...
Oluchukwu Precious Obioma, University of Nigeria
Competition laws protect consumers and create confidence in an economy. It’s a signal to investors and entrepreneurs that a...
EU’s antitrust ‘war’ on Google and Facebook uses abandoned American playbook
Ramsi Woodcock, Georgia State University
The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that European antitrust regulators have declared war on American tech giants.
On June...
What is the European Commission’s problem with Google and Android?
Marek Martyniszyn, Queen's University Belfast
Google has been dragged over the coals by the European Union’s competition watchdog, culminating in the European Commission formally charging...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
