Tag: Monopoly
UK Probes eBay’s £7B Ads Deal Over Monopoly Concerns
Britain's markets watchdog has launched a full-scale investigation into eBay's bid to create the world's largest online business for classified ads.
The Competition and Markets...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed the U.S. Postal Service into a...
By J. Gregory Sidak, Criterion Economics
Years before the widespread use of email and the World Wide Web, Congress directed in the Postal Reorganization Act...
Indian Startups Meet CCI To Flag Google’s Antitrust Practices
The fight between startups in India and Google over the app store monopoly continues, with a group of startups reportedly knocking on the doors...
Mexico Probes Possible Monopolistic Practices In Waterproofing Products
Mexico's antitrust regulator published a notice in the Federal Official Gazette that it has initiated an investigation into possible absolute monopolistic practices in the...
Labor Organization in Ride Sharing – Unionization or Cartelization?
By Mark Anderson (University of Idaho) & Max Huffman (Indiana University)
The sharing economy brings together the constituent parts of a business enterprise into a...
The Anti-Monopoly Fund Raises $1M To Promote Antitrust Enforcement
A group pushing for more competitive markets is funneling more than $1 million into initiatives that promote stronger antitrust enforcement as US regulators examine...
Excessive Drug Pricing as an Antitrust Violation
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Excessive Drug Pricing as an Antitrust Violation
By Harry First (New York University)
It is nearly four years since Martin Shkreli...
Competition Cases Involving Platforms: Lessons from Europe
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Competition Cases Involving Platforms: Lessons from Europe
By Nicolas Petit (University of Liege)
Some academics and public intellectuals who lobby for...
Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy
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Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy
By Sandeep Vaheesan (Open Markets Institute) & Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder)
After decades...
US: “Pharma Bro” Shkreli sued for monopoly on kidney drug
Retrophin and its former CEO “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli are facing claims by a rival drug company for monopolizing the market for Thiola, the...