Big Tech and Antitrust: Rethinking Competition Policy for the Digital Era
The rising power of Big Tech firms has brought antitrust and competition laws to the attention of policymakers around the world. What are the economic, political, and social effects of corporate concentration? Are low prices a sufficient justification for broad horizontal and vertical integration? Do "natural" digital monopolies require us to rethink antitrust guidelines that date back to the era of Standard Oil?
Moderator
David Faber, Journalist and Co-Anchor, CNBC
Speakers
Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Director, Mercatus Center
Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Sally Hubbard, Senior Editor of Tech Antitrust Enforcement, The Capitol Forum
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business