Publications
The Open Markets Institute led a coalition of public interest groups and academics in demanding the Department of Justice block the proposed merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill. If approved, the merger would create the second-largest U.S. provider of textbooks and higher-education materials after Pearson, with $3.16 billion in annual revenue.
Read MoreOpen Markets, Public Citizen, Demand Progress Education Fund, and Revolving Door Project sent a joint letter to all 27 partners of Facebook's Libra Consortium demanding they walk away from the project.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute submitted a statement for the record before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship on July 16, 2019.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on June 11, 2019.
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Beth Baltzan testified as a witness to the House Ways & Means Committee on “Enforcement in the New NAFTA.” Her testimony, based in part on a piece she published in the Washington Monthly, pointed to the principles unratified Havana Charter as a solution to global trade. The charter “included rules that guaranteed workers’ rights, provided protections against destructive foreign investor behavior, and required trading nations to abide by anti-monopoly rules.”
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute, Food & Water Watch, and the Organization for Competitive Markets submitted a letter to the Justice Department supporting a letter by The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (“R-CALF USA”) on March 28, 2019, regarding the proposed acquisition of Iowa Premium, LLC, (“Iowa Premium”) by National Beef Packing Company, LLC (“National Beef”).
Read MoreThe letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, and addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, explains how the combination of Quad and LSC is a merger-to-monopoly in the long-run magazine printing market and an anticompetitive merger in the book printing market.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute writes to Chair Schakowksy and ranking member McMorris Rodgers of the House Energy and Commerce committee in order to offer its thoughts on the discussion that has begun on new comprehensive privacy legislation.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
Read MoreToday, the Open Markets Institute joined five law professors and one public interest group in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board criticizing a proposed rule that would make it harder for workers to organize and collectively bargain with franchise businesses.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute, Public Knowledge and twelve other signatories have sent a comment letter to the House Judiciary Committee and Committee on Energy and Commerce urging the House of Representatives to hold a hearing on the likely effects of the proposed Sprint, T-Mobile merger.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute co-signed a letter written by Public Knowledge calling on the International Trade Commission to uphold an administrative law judge's decision to reject Qualcomm's request to ban certain iPhone models from American markets. Qualcomm claims that these models use baseband technology from competitor Intel and infringes on Qualcomm's patents.
Read MoreRead the remarks of Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn at the FTC's Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century hearings.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Senior Fellow Lina Khan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Third Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the George Mason University.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Second Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the Constitution Center.
Read MoreOpen Markets, EPIC, and other civil society groups express strong support for EU Competition Commissioner's decision to fine Google for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating systems.
Read MoreRepresentatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.
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