Maurice Stucke spoke at the White House with senior Biden administration officials on Artificial Intelligence and competition policy.
A briefing of that meeting is available here.
Maurice Stucke Speaks at NY State Bar Association Annual Meeting
Maurice Stucke was a speaker at the 2024 New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting. Joining him on the panel “Are Algorithms the New Smoke-Filled Rooms?” were
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- the economist Dr. Cristina Caffarra,
- Jay Himes, former NYAG Antitrust Special Litigation Counsel and Bureau Chief,
- Matthew Nikic, Assistant Chief, New York DOJ, Antitrust Division, and
- Maureen K. Olhausen, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
The lively discussion on algorithmic collusion was expertly moderated by Elizabeth Prewitt, Partner at Latham & Watkins LLP.
NPR Interviews Prof. Stucke on Algorithmic Collusion
NPR’s Planet Money interviewed Maurice Stucke regarding algorithmic collusion. A link to the broadcast is available here.
Bloomberg Interviews Prof. Stucke on Algorithmic Collusion
Katie Arcieri, Senior Reporter at Bloomberg, interviewed Maurice Stucke in her article, RealPage Antitrust Case Poses AI Price-Setting Collusion Test. A copy of the article is available here.
The New York Times Quotes Maurice Stucke on AI, OpenAI and Microsoft
The New York Times’s DealBook quoted Maurice Stucke on AI, OpenAI and Microsoft. The article is available here.
ProPublica Quotes Maurice Stucke on RealPage Litigation
ProPublica, which broke the story on RealPage’s algorithmic collusion with the nation’s leading rental property owners, discussed Professor Stucke’s recent Senate testimony on how Congress must update the antitrust laws. The link to Heather Vogel’s article, DOJ Backs Tenants in Case Alleging Price-Fixing by Big Landlords and a Real Estate Tech Company, is available here.
Prof. Stucke’s written statement to the Senate is available here.
Business Insider quotes Maurice Stucke on RealPage Litigation
Business Insider quoted Maurice Stucke in its article,
Tenants and a top prosecutor have accused major landlords and a popular apartment-pricing site of colluding to inflate rents. A legal expert says it shows algorithmic collusion is no longer ‘science fiction.’
Eliza Relman’s article is available at https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-apartment-rent-price-setting-landlords-realpage-lawsuit-illegal-2023-11
Maurice Stucke Participates in the Utah Project on Antitrust & Consumer Protection
On Friday, October 28, Prof. Stucke presented at the conference, The New Merger Guidelines: Controlling Case Law and New Economics, hosted by the University of Utah’s Utah Project on Antitrust & Consumer Protection. The conference, which included the chief economist of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, examined the DOJ and FTC’s proposed new Merger Guidelines in light of modern economics and relevant controlling caselaw, inviting experts in the field to weigh in for the benefit of improving antitrust merger enforcement.
Maurice Stucke Testifies Before the U.S. Senate on Algorithmic Collusion
Professor Stucke testified on October 24, 2023 before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights on its Hearing, “Examining Competition and Consumer Rights in Housing Markets.” His written statement about algorithmic collusion in the housing industry and beyond is available here.
CSPAN covered the hearing. Video
Maurice Stucke Presents Report on Privacy and Competition at ICN Annual Conference
Prof. Stucke while a Senior Policy Advisor at the FTC coordinated with other jurisdictions’ competition authorities in drafting the International Competition Network Steering Group’s draft report: Competition Law Enforcement at the Intersection between Competition and Privacy: Agency Considerations. The report outlines at least four categories of the privacy/competition relationship and provides a checklist of issues and questions for competition agencies to consider in assessing this relationship in any conduct enforcement, merger, remedy, or policy matter.
On October 19, Prof. Stucke presented the draft report to the heads of over 100 competition authorities at the 2023 ICN Annual Conference in Barcelona’s historic neoclassical building, the Llotja de Mar. In the morning session, the heads of Germany’s and India’s competition authorities Andreas Mundt and Ravneet Kaur, as well as the former head of the UK competition authority John Fingleton discussed the report.
In the afternoon breakout session, Maurice further discussed with Andrea Coscelli, the most recent head of the UK’s competition authority, Prof. Anna Gerbrandy of the Europa Institute of Utrecht University School of Law, Teresa Moreira of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and Prof. Rupprecht Podszun of Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf the draft report, which prompted further discussion and feedback from the chairs of competition agencies in the audience.
