Antimonopoly Academic Grantees
We’re investing in a new paradigm for antimonopoly change.
We’re investing in a new paradigm for antimonopoly change.
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 DoThat’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.
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.
A History of American Antimonopoly Thought
Antitrust Implications of Online Pricing Algorithms: Evidence From High-frequency Price Data
Assessing Race, Gender, and Income Disparities in Pharmaceutical Drug Access, Availability, and Pricing
‘Bigness’ in the Electric Vehicle Industry: a Curse and a Blessing?
Business Power and State Aid: Investment Subsidies in Comparative Perspective
Changing News Industry Dynamics: Regulation Financing and Media Independence
Community Power Tech Power and Racial Surveillance Capitalism
Concentrating Economic Power Through Epistemological Power: Analyzing Innovation Policy Institutions in the United States
Developing Better Remedies for Platform Harms
Environmental Racism and Monopoly Power in Algorithmically Mediated Work
Labor Market Concentration Unionization and the Firm-size Wage Premium
Labor Monopsony and Geographic Inequality
Landlord Tech Watch
Masking Protectionism as Free Trade: The Role of Antitrust
Mergers and Acquisitions and Big Tech’s Innovation Capabilities: Evidence From Patents’ Concentration
Miners’ Unions and the Coordination of the Coal Market
Misinformation Platform Power and Social Policy
Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa
New Policy Horizons for Quantitative Analysis
Non-Solicitation Clauses in Public Sector Outsourcing Contracts
Multinationals Economic Power and Inclusion in Feed to Poultry Value Chains in Africa
Regulatory Managerialism and the Rule of Law
Shades of Decentralization: Decentralizing Centralizing and Re-Decentralizing Digital Infrastructures for a Global Democratic Public Sphere
Spiders in the Web: A Social Network Analysis of Dependency in U.S. Industrial Agriculture
The Effect of Buyer Power on Occupational Illness and Injuries at Upstream Suppliers
The Impact of Private Equity Roll-up Strategies on Competition