Vice’s Edward Ongweso Jr. quotes Maurice Stucke’s research in his article “Amy Klobuchar’s Big Antitrust Bill Wants to End the Age of Megamergers:
Klobuchar’s bill takes much-needed aim at monopolies, but advocates say that it doesn’t offer deep structural solutions.”
Is There a Problem with Competition?
The University of Chicago’s Stigler Center hosted an event, Is There a Problem with Competition? Professors Dennis Carlton (Chicago Booth), Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford), and Maurice Stucke discussed whether there can be too much competition, whether antitrust policy needs reform, and potential paths forward – all topics covered in Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi’s book, Competition Overdose. The conversation was moderated by ProMarket managing editor Jana Kasperkevic.
The video of the event, which drew nearly 300 participants, is available on the Stigler Center’s YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/c/StiglerCenter/videos.
Bloomberg Quotes Maurice Stucke on the GameStop Case
Bloomberg’s Peter Coy quotes Maurice Stucke in his article, “Market Manipulation Is Like Pornography: You Know It When You See It: Figuring out what’s legal and illegal in the GameStop case is not going to be easy.”
Forbes Quotes Maurice Stucke
David Jeans of Forbes quotes Maurice Stucke in his article, Unfazed By Antitrust In The U.S., Big Tech Faces A Growing Nuisance From Down Under.
Is more competition the answer for audit?
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales features Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi’s book, Competition Overdose in its article, Is more competition the answer for audit?
The antitrust books you should’ve read in 2020 [part 1]
Friso Bostoen, in his blog post “The antitrust books you should’ve read in 2020 [part 1],” provides a nice summary of several noteworthy antitrust books in 2021, including Competition Overdose by Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi.
Algorithms: How they can reduce competition and harm consumers
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority cite the work of Maurice Stucke and his co-author Ariel Ezrachi in its report, “Algorithms: How they can reduce competition and harm consumers.”
Why Isn’t the FTC Tackling Facebook’s Data-opoly?
The University of Chicago’s Stigler Center published Maurice Stucke’s article “Why Isn’t the FTC Tackling Facebook’s Data-opoly?“
INET Publishes Maurice Stucke’s Latest Essay on Data-opolies
It first outlines the emerging consensus among policymakers and enforcers on several attributes of the digital platform economy.
To understand why these data-opolies’ power is so durable, and how they successfully leveraged their power into other markets, the Essay next outlines three anticompetitive tactics these data-opolies employ: the now-casting radar, the acquire-copy-kill (“ACK”) strategy, and the Venus flytrap strategy for opening and then closing their platforms.
As neither market forces nor current laws deter this anticompetitive behavior, Part III summarizes ten promising reforms that are being proposed to rein in these data-opolies.
The Essay concludes with signs of hope.
NY Times Quotes Maurice Stucke
In their December 16, 2020 article, 10 States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online Ads, David McCabe and Daisuke Wakabayashi quote Maurice Stucke:
Maurice Stucke, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and co-author of “Competition Overdose,” said that the online ad industry stands out as a place where regulators should look, and noted that it has also caught the attention of regulators in Australia, France and Britain.
“In no other market do you have one entity that represents most of the buyers, most of the sellers and controls the leading exchange,” he said. “You can create a system that on the surface looks robustly competitive but it really isn’t.”
The allegations of collusion with Facebook stood out, Mr. Stucke said, since such examples of anticompetitive behavior are usually seen as the linchpin of a strong antitrust case — the type of evidence that should interest more states and even the Justice Department.