Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley outlines 25 characteristics that exemplary legislation from Congress should include to effectuate a vigorous antitrust enforcement policy.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details why the rule of reason should be completely abandoned in favor of bright-line rules.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley writes that Epic Games' victory over Google’s illegal monopolization is a welcome morale boost for antimonopolists, developers, and consumers alike, but the fight is far from over.
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Senior 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.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a piece regarding appalling working conditions for laborers and which states are considering changes to transform each industry.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley shines a light on The Court’s assaults on executive agencies are really attacks on responsive and democratic government.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley discusses market definition and its prevalence in antitrust litigation.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how we shall ensure labor benefits from the veritable renaissance of long-dormant antitrust enforcement in the US under the Biden Administration.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley elaborates on a pertinent issue in the entertainment industry. Ticketmaster dominates the ticketing services, causing chaos with consumers attempting to purchase attendance to shows.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley was quoted in Sen. Jon Tester’s press release announcing his Agriculture Right to Repair Act, which aims to give farmers the right to repair their own equipment and end current restrictions on the repair market.
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Open Markets details how the “Agricultural Right to Repair Act” takes an important step toward breaking consolidated equipment manufacturers’ monopoly over repair for critical farm tools.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley discussed that the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger shouldn’t just be looked at in terms of where it will put Microsoft in the gaming market now, but the potential it has to disadvantage its competitors.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley discusses how the existing contractual legal regime allows corporations to further exploit workers—and how public policy can change that.
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Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst at Open Markets, co-writes with Chris Hicks, Senior Policy Advisor at Student Borrower Protection Center, about how employers are increasingly using predatory student debt to trap workers in jobs.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how federal agencies have an opportunity to take immediate action against climate change using anti-monopoly policy.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley comments on U.S. lawmakers' focus on recommender algorithms.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley’s opinion piece was cited for his criticism of the Verizon TracFone merger.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details how congressionally delegated powers can prohibit specific corporate conduct to require more publicly acceptable business practices.
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Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.
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Open Markets Institute releases report on supply chain fragility— The report from researcher, Garphil Julien, focuses on security risks in critical sectors by the Bureau of Industry and Security to inform the U.S. – EU Trade and Technology Council Secure Supply Chains Working Group.
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Open Markets conducts a report by Claire Kelloway and Matt Buck sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program.
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Senior fellow Nikki Usher asked 18 public health officials in 29 nonurban Illinois counties about the platform’s pros and cons.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley specifies paths for effective litigation and suggests actions relevant authorities might take.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes a paper describing how the FTC can use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” powers to strengthen fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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This research paper is an update to Open Markets’ 2020 report, “Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power,” and details Amazon’s further attempts to amplify and widen employee monitoring into September 2021.
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Check out our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series illustrating the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available here→
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Open Markets Institute releases a sequel report on Amazon’s surveillance—This time documenting the scale and scope of Amazon’s consumer and competitor surveillance operations, their adverse impacts, and how to make Amazon stop.
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This report discusses how the USDA must improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation through statutes such as the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Brian Callaci, an economist at Open Markets Institute, recently published “What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices”.
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