Publications
Europe director Max von Thun and CJL director Courtney Radsch along with EU Tech Policy Fellow Michelle Nie published an expert brief on how artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly monopolized by Big Tech firms due to high entry barriers and anticompetitive practices, posing risks to competition, privacy, security, innovation, and the environment. They prescribe a set of robust policy interventions to address the problems.
Read MoreIndustrial Policy Program Manager Audrey Stienon examines how China’s mineral export ban impacts critical supply chains and poses a major challenge for U.S. strategies to reduce dependence on China and ensure national security.
Read MoreReporter Austin Ahlman delves into Google’s ramped up state-level lobbying efforts and surpassing of federal spending, trying to counter legislation like California’s CJPA and sway data privacy and media compensation laws nationwide.
Read MoreTransportation policy analyst Arnav Rao writes on how ocean freight carriers are exploiting their monopolistic control to hike prices and boost profits, harming U.S. importers, exporters, and small businesses, necessitating stronger regulatory oversight to restore fair pricing.
Read MorePhillip Longman reveals in a new article published in The Washington Monthly, that the goal of revitalizing American manufacturing is deeply threatened by financiers who are radically downsizing the nation’s freight rail system in pursuit of short-term profit.
Read MoreIn The Washington Monthly, Dr. Courtney C. Radsch argues that the survival of artificial intelligence hinges on high-quality, human-generated content and data, which means and that journalists, artists, content creators, and analysts, have more leverage to be fairly compensated for their work than they might realize.
Read MoreIn Project Syndicate’s Big Question, Tara Pincock weighs in on the current state of antitrust law, enforcement, and the courts.
Read MoreIn Competition Policy International: Antitrust Chronicle, September 2024, Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a paper, "Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal.”
Read MoreKarina Montoya shares five takeaways from the initial weeks of the Google ad tech monopoly trial in Tech Policy Press.
Read MoreAs the EU's competition enforcer Margrethe Vestager prepares to step down, Max von Thun writes in the Financial Times that the incoming chief Teresa Ribera must take up the mantle to shape markets in the public interest.
Read MoreBarry Lynn authors Harper's October 2024 cover story, "The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech."
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci have co-written an article on the impact that unaffordable housing is having on regional and national economics, specifically high living cost areas, and what to do to fix the problem.
Read MoreCJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch constructs a brief providing the framework for protecting the content of journalists and publishers from exploitation by AI companies for the use of news for their large language models.
Read MoreCJL Director Courtney Radsch & Senior Reporter Karina Montoya delve into the infrastructural role of cloud in watchdog journalism to illustrate how market concentration in cloud services can exacerbate existing harms by dominant digital platforms on news media sustainability. They argue that the design of policies seeking to redress potential harms to competition in cloud services should consider its effects in public interest journalism.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details why the rule of reason should be completely abandoned in favor of bright-line rules.
Read MorePolicy Director Phillip Longman publishes a featured piece largely based on a pivotal report published by Longman/Open Markets and the Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets on how the breakdown of journalism's business model is not the result of inherent features of the internet or of digital technology.
Read MoreOpen Markets Industrial Policy Program Manager Audrey Stienon penned a piece in The American Prospect on the pros and cons of California’s close partnership with Civica Rx, as the state begins to manufacture insulin in an effort to lower costs.
Read MoreFood systems program manager Claire Kelloway co-wrote a piece covering the C&S divestiture take down of the Kroger - Albertsons merger.
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