Antimonopoly Academic Grantees

We’re investing in a new paradigm for antimonopoly change.

Vision

Academic scholarship plays a critical role in informing paradigm and policy shifts, especially in the antimonopoly field. Research seeds novel theories of harm that can then be applied in litigation against anticompetitive abuses; identifies high-level trends and gaps to inform enforcement priorities and strategies; and introduces new ways of thinking about the problems we’re trying to solve for — so that we may be more creative systematic, and principled when tackling solutions to rein in concentrated private power and build a more equitable economy.

What We Do

That’s why we’re investing $750,000 in 26 proposals to respond to the unique antimonopoly moment we’re in. This outstanding cohort consists of 41 researchers from 33 different institutions. They reflect the diversity of disciplines and lines of inquiry needed to broaden the antimonopoly field to more fully dissect the taxonomy of harms perpetuated by concentrated private power, so that we may better understand and think more creatively and rigorously about what’s needed to solve this problem.

Grantees

To counter concentrated power in the digital economy, we educate the public on the monopoly problem; run creative, sharp campaigns focused on antimonopoly action; and support the field to integrate an antimonopoly approach into tech policy.

Richard R. John

A History of American Antimonopoly Thought

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Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay

Antitrust Implications of Online Pricing Algorithms: Evidence From High-frequency Price Data

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Robin Feldman

Assessing Race, Gender, and Income Disparities in Pharmaceutical Drug Access, Availability, and Pricing

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Lenore Palladino

‘Bigness’ in the Electric Vehicle Industry: a Curse and a Blessing?

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Chase Foster and Melike Arslan

Business Power and State Aid: Investment Subsidies in Comparative Perspective

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Marita Freimane

Changing News Industry Dynamics: Regulation Financing and Media Independence

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Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Community Power Tech Power and Racial Surveillance Capitalism

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Shobita Parthasarathy

Concentrating Economic Power Through Epistemological Power: Analyzing Innovation Policy Institutions in the United States

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Paul Ohm

Developing Better Remedies for Platform Harms

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Sonja Solomun

Environmental Racism and Monopoly Power in Algorithmically Mediated Work

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Kevin Devereux and Blair Long

Labor Market Concentration Unionization and the Firm-size Wage Premium

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Hiba Hafiz

Labor Monopsony and Geographic Inequality

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Erin McElroy

Landlord Tech Watch

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Erik Peinert

Masking Protectionism as Free Trade: The Role of Antitrust

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Ilan Strauss and Jangho Yang

Mergers and Acquisitions and Big Tech’s Innovation Capabilities: Evidence From Patents’ Concentration

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Branden Adams

Miners’ Unions and the Coordination of the Coal Market

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Madiha Zahrah Choksi and Ari Ezra Waldman

Misinformation Platform Power and Social Policy

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Simon Roberts and Sumayya Goga

Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa

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Frank Pasquale and Jay Varellas

New Policy Horizons for Quantitative Analysis

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Peter Norlander

Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts

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Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru and Zlatina Georgieva

Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa

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Ari Ezra Waldman and Julie E. Cohen

Regulatory Managerialism and the Rule of Law

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Elettra Bietti, Jacquelene Mwangi, and Friso Bostoen

Shades of Decentralization: Decentralizing Centralizing and Re-Decentralizing Digital Infrastructures for a Global Democratic Public Sphere

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Loka Ashwood, Mary Hendrickson, Phil Howard, and Andy Pilny

Spiders in the Web: A Social Network Analysis of Dependency in U.S. Industrial Agriculture

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Brian Callachi and Marshall Steinbaum

The Effect of Buyer Power on Occupational Illness and Injuries at Upstream Suppliers

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Laura Alexander and Oscar Valdés Viera

The Impact of Private Equity Roll-up Strategies on Competition

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