Publications
Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley called for the enforcement of the all-but-lapsed Robertson-Patman Act (RPA), enacted in the 1930s by discussing RPA’s ability to level the playing field for small retailers competing against the likes of Walmart and Amazon.
Read MoreIn this issue, we describe the UK’s efforts to block the United Arab Emirates from pushing into the country’s media market, and ask whether this offers a model for how the U.S. can handle foreign investment of U.S. media assets.
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Welcome to our final installment of The Corner for 2023. Over the course of the year, our team continued to drive the reinvigoration of antimonopoly law around the world, as well as policies reining in Big Tech. See some of the ways we did so below.
Read MoreSenior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley writes that the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) is ready and capable of being revived and vigorously enforced to root out market bullying.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how private equity titans have set their sights on the care economy, deploying classic rollup strategies to limit competition and raise prices. We also launch two new papers on the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) making the case for the U.S. government to revive enforcement of the RPA in order to help build a fairer, more open, and more decentralized economy.
Read MoreOpen Markets has released two complementary papers on the Robinson-Patman Act that show how we can once again enforce the law to rein in the buyer power of the nation’s largest corporations in retail and manufacturing and stop them from squeezing their smaller suppliers.
Read MoreFood systems program manager Claire Kelloway argues that the main reason Kroger and Albertsons want to merge is to achieve Walmart’s monopsony power, and permitting mergers on these grounds will only harm suppliers, workers, and consumers.
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday February 15th as Open Markets & Partners Convene Top Antimonopoly Thinkers, Including Senator Elizabeth Warren, AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, Novelist Ayad Akhtar, CWA President Sara Nelson, & others!
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at how the antimonopoly struggle will play out this year on an international, national, and state level. We also see our advocacy come to fruition in the FTC’s proposal to ban non-competes.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute Policy Director Phillip Longman explains why political demand is growing for renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act.
Read MoreIn this issue, we discuss how Big Finance is driving rents higher, the details of a class-action claim filed against Facebook in the U.K., and our three-day event next week on how anti-monopoly enforcement will make America stronger and more prosperous.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci discuss how lawmakers can address concentration and monopolization by enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act.
Read MoreNew report enumerates a plethora of predatory, exclusionary, and unfair practices that Amazon implements to surveil its competitors and consumers.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute, along with 36 public advocacy organizations and six scholars, sent the Federal Trade Commission a letter today requesting a status update on their joint petition for rule-making to ban exclusionary contracts.
Read MoreBrandi Collins-Dexter of Color of Change says deleting your Facebook account isn’t enough—the company must be pressured at the top. And right-wing board members “shows you what their intentions really are.”
Read MoreWalmart sells 50 percent or more of all groceries in one in every ten metropolitan areas and nearly one in three “micropolitan” areas across the country, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, out last week. In 38 of these regions, Walmart sells 70 percent or more of all groceries.
Read MoreOpen Markets has submitted a public comment on February 27, 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the FTC’s 3-2 clearance of the Staples-Essendant Merger.
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