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Antitrust Episodes

March 29, 2024

FTC Actions on Antitrust Reforms with Ginger Jin and Liad Wagman

FTC Actions on Antitrust Reforms with Ginger Jin and Liad Wagman by Technology Policy Institute
Dec. 9, 2021

Larry White on Antitrust & Market Delineation of Monopolization Cases

Dr. Larry White is the Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School. He's also General Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization and the author of numerous articles and books on industrial organization, antitrust, general regulation, and financial & bank regulation. He has also held a number of senior government positions: Senior Staff Member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Chief Economist at the Antitrust Division at the...
Guest: Larry White
Oct. 26, 2021

Xiaomeng Lu on China's Tech Crackdown

Xiaomeng Lu is a Director in the Eurasia Group’s Geotechnology Practice, where she focuses on the interactions of emerging technologies with geopolitics, market dynamics, and regulatory norms. Before joining the Eurasia Group, she was the China Practice Lead at the consulting firm, Access Partnership, where she helped top US financial and cloud service providers enter China's market.
Guest: Xiaomeng Lu
Oct. 5, 2021

Mark Jamison on Regulatory Humility & Antitrust: Two Think Minimum

Dr. Mark Jamison is the Director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on how technology affects the economy and on telecommunications and federal communications issues. He's written three books, contributed to several edited volumes, and published in academic and policy journals, as well as the popular press
Guest: Mark Jamison
July 12, 2021

Roger Noll on Antitrust and the NCAA

Roger Noll is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economics & Policy Research. Prior to coming to Stanford, he has been a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisors, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Institute Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. He's been a member of the advisory boards of the Department ...
Guest: Roger Noll
July 8, 2021

Michael Katz on Challenges to Antitrust Policy

Michael is Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business & Department of Economics, where he was the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership of the Institute for Business Innovation. He has also served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the US Justice Department from September 2001 through January 2003. He was the Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission from January 1994 through January 1996. He's published extensively ...
Guest: Michael Katz
May 6, 2021

Leah Nylen on Antitrust and Competition Policy in the Biden Administration

It's been a big year for antitrust with possible major implications for the future structure of the economy. There's no sign that this action will slow anytime soon. Given all that, we're delighted to have crack Politico antitrust reporter and Leah Nylen with us today to hash it all out. Leah has recently finished her first year at Politico after eight years before that at MLex, and she's also worked for Bloomberg and Congressional Quarterly.
Guest: Leah Nylen
Nov. 10, 2020

Jason Furman and Joshua Wright Debate: Do Digital Platforms Require a New Regulatory Regime?

Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Joshua Wright, University Professor at Scalia Law School at George Mason University, executive director of the Global Antitrust Institute, and former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, participated in a lively debate moderated by TPI’s Thomas Lenard on Monday, October 26, 2020. The debate topic was: “Be it resolved: We need a new regulatory regime for di...
June 15, 2020

Carl Shapiro and Josh Wright Debate Antitrust and Competition Policy

Carl Shapiro is Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He's also the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. Carl was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during 2011-12. And prior to that, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, a position he also held during 1995-96. Josh Wright is a univ...
June 4, 2020

Colorado's Attorney General Phil Weiser on Antitrust, Federalism, and Price Gouging

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was sworn in as the state's 39th Attorney General on January 8th, 2019. Before running for office, he served as the Hatfield Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law School where he founded the Silicon Flatiron Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship and co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council. He's also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice and Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation...
Guest: Phil Weiser
Oct. 7, 2019

Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Antitrust in the Internet Era

Tim Muris is a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and currently a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, at Scalia Law School and Senior Counsel at the law firm Sidley-Austin. He has substantial experience in every aspect of antitrust enforcement as well as in key consumer protection issues, including advertising, consumer finance and privacy regulation. During his lengthy tenure with the FTC, Mr. Muris held multiple high-level posts and was the only person ever...
Sept. 17, 2019

Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Antitrust

Professor William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University Law School. Bill has many years of experience as an antitrust scholar and practitioner, serving at the Federal Trade Commission as Chairman (2008-2009), Commissioner (2006-2011), and General Counsel (2001-2004).
Sept. 4, 2019

eSports with Brian Sullivan and Laura Martin

Brian Sullivan of CNBC and Laura Martin of Needham & Company sit down with Scott Wallsten in this episode recorded in Aspen, Colorado at the Technology Policy Institute's annual Aspen Forum on August 18-20, 2019. Brian, Laura, and Scott discuss a wide range of topics from eSports, gaming, Fortnite, and the future of media. Brian and Laura discuss their perspectives on the growing influence of Washington, D.C. on business decisions on Wall Street and around the world.
July 18, 2019

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Randal Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and affiliate faculty with the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. Professor Picker currently teaches classes at the Law School in Secured Transactions and Antitrust and a seminar on antitrust and intellectual property policy. In prior years, Professor Picker has taught...
Guest: Randal Picker
May 6, 2019

Tyler Cowen and Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

Tyler Cowen is the New York Times bestselling author of the Great Stagnation and writer of a daily blog called Marginal Revolution. He holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair in Economics at George Mason University, writes as a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and hosts a popular discussion series called Conversations with Tyler where he interviews leading thinkers of our time. Today we're excited to talk with Tyler Cowen about his new book entitled, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero. W...
Guest: Tyler Cowen
Nov. 2, 2018

How Russian Twitter Trolls Influence Society and Elections with Patrick Warren

Welcome back to TPI’s Podcast Two Think Minimum. It's Monday, October 29th, 2018. We're excited to talk with Patrick Warren, who has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and is now an Associate Professor of Economics at Clemson University. Patrick has become a leading authority on the impact of Internet trolls on elections, which is obviously of huge importance as we head into the midterms. His work is based on a data set of about 3 million troll tweets that he and his coauthor Darren Linvill downloade...
Oct. 1, 2018

Victoria Graham on Antitrust and Corporate Crime Journalism

Today we're excited to talk with Victoria Graham. She is an antitrust and corporate crime reporter for Bloomberg Law in Washington, covering news and trends with the Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Victoria’s antitrust coverage also extends into private litigation matters including antitrust suits against the NCAA and employee class actions involving employer no poach agreements. Ms. Graham received her B.A. in media studies and governmen...
June 18, 2018

The FCC and the New Telecom and Media Landscape: A Conversation with Jonathan Make and David Kaut

Hi and welcome back to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. It's Thursday, June 7th, 2018, and I'm TPI Research Fellow, Sarah Oh. Today we're excited to talk with two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering telecom policy, Jonathan Make and David Kaut, from Communications Daily. Jonathan is the editor of Communications Daily and in his spare time is president of the Society of Professional Journalists DC Pro Chapter. He has covered media, business and policy for most of his journalism career...