Big Tech, Dynamic Competition, and Antitrust

Project Themes in the Media

The mission of the Big Tech, Dynamic Competition, and Antitrust Project is to champion markets and the private enterprise system by articulating the importance of innovation to prosperity. Project activities aim to build a community of scholars, policymakers, and senior leaders and managers, in order to advance greater understanding and application of the project topics.

The project is pleased to feature external media and news sources that have highlighted project themes, concepts and authors for reference on this page. Select journal articles are also presented here. Content will be added here over time as it is published or broadcasted.

For content authored by project participants, please see our Papers and Presentations listings.


2022

  1. David Moschella and Robert D. Atkinson. “Big Tech” Is Not Immune to Creative Destruction. ITIF. January 7, 2022.

  2. Arthur Sidney. Senators Should Avoid Making the Digital Economy More European. Disruptive Competition Project. January 17, 2022.

  3. Ashley Gold. Apple, Google urge caution on fast-moving antitrust bills. Axios. January 18, 2022.

  4. Dirk Auer. 10 Things the American Innovation and Choice Online Act Gets Wrong. Truth on the Market. January 18, 2022.

  5. Lauren Feiner. Apple says antitrust bills could cause ‘millions of Americans’ to suffer malware attacks. CNBC. January 18, 2022.

  6. Tracy Hernandez and Ahmad Thomas. Federal antitrust bills threaten California businesses big and small. Orange County Register. January 24, 2022.

  7. Julian Cañete. California casualties in Congress’ effort to regulate Big Tech. CalMatters. January 25, 2022.

  8. Michael R. Bloomberg. A Bipartisan Bad Idea. Bloomberg. January 28, 2022.

  9. Richard Epstein and Adam Mossoff. FTC enforcement stifles biotech innovation. New York Daily News. January 30, 2022.

  10. Mike Masnick. Can We At Least Make Sure Antitrust Isn't Deliberately Designed To Make Everyone Worse Off? Techdirt. February 2, 2022.

  11. Issie Lapowsky. Meta's free fall reveals a big issue with Congress's antitrust bill. Protocol. February 3, 2022.

  12. Comments of Scholars of Law, Economics, and Business. Draft USPTO, NIST, & DOJ Policy Statement on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for Standard Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments. Docket ATR-2021-0001. Submitted Feb. 4, 2022.

  13. Geoffrey Manne. Unpacking the Flawed 2021 Draft USPTO, NIST, & DOJ Policy Statement on Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs). Truth on the Market. February 8, 2022.

  14. Matthew Feeney and Ryan Bourne. All Roads Lead to Big Government: Heritage Takes on Big Tech. Cato at Liberty. February 9, 2022.

  15. TechFreedom. GAFAM Acquisition Activity: Does It Merit Special Merger Rules? (Recorded webinar.) February 11, 2022.

  16. U.S. Chamber of Commerce. U.S. Chamber Report: Antitrust Legislation Threatens U.S. Competitiveness and National Security. February 15, 2022.

  17. Kevin Tran. Why 2022 Might Disappoint Big Tech Antitrust Crusaders. Variety. February 23, 2022.

  18. Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Chris Mills Rodrigo. Big Tech allies point to China, Russia threat in push to squash antitrust bill. The Hill. February 23, 2022.

  19. Nicolas Petit and Thibault Schrepel. Complexity-Minded Antitrust. Posted on SSRN, March 7, 2022.

  20. Alden Abbott. Antitrust Policy and National Security Interests. Truth on the Market. March 8, 2022.

  21. Economic Report of the President. April 2022 (page 216 references Estimating the Benefits from Collaboration: The Case of SEMATECH, 1996).

2021

  1. Makenzie Holland. Changes to U.S. antitrust laws could hamper innovation. TechTarget. February 25, 2021.

  2. Adam Thierer. Open-ended antitrust is an innovation killer. The Hill. February 25, 2021.

  3. The rules of the tech game are changing: A new phase in the global tech contest is under way. The Economist. February 27, 2021.

  4. How Schumpeter would view the economy today. The Economist. April 22, 2021.

  5. Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Big Tech and the Digital Economy.” Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Virtual webinar, April 23, 2021.

  6. Geoffrey A. Manne, Kristian Stout, and Ben Sperry. A Dynamic Analysis of Broadband Competition: What Concentration Numbers Fail to Capture. ICLE White Paper. International Center for Law & Economics. June 3, 2021.

  7. Economics needs to evolve. There has been too much focus on equilibrium. The Economist. June 24, 2021.

  8. Matt Rosoff. Op-ed: This week showed how the Big Tech antitrust campaign is totally misguided. CNBC. June 30, 2021.

  9. Robert Atkinson. Antitrust Can Hurt U.S. Competitiveness. Wall Street Journal. July 5, 2021.

  10. James Pethokoukis and Mark Jamison. Should we use antitrust to break up Big Tech? American Enterprise Institute. July 6, 2021.

  11. Harry Broadman. Interview: U.S. laws must be dynamic, relevant to current economy: Former White House economic official. BNN Bloomberg. July 9, 2021.

  12. Lauren Feiner. Start-ups will suffer from antitrust bills meant to target Big Tech, VCs charge. CNBC. July 24, 2021.

  13. Thomas W. Hazlett. Antitrust Activists Want to Go Full Throttle. Here’s a Lesson They Should Consider First. Barron’s. July 29, 2021.

  14. Harry Broadman. Biden’s Antitrust Policy Mustn’t Throw Out The Baby With The Bathwater. Forbes. Selected as a Forbes Editors’ Pick. July 31, 2021.

  15. Aurelien Portuese. The Newly Assertive FTC Faces Its First Big Test—and It Doesn’t Look Promising. ITIF. August 23, 2021.

  16. Jennifer Huddleston. Facebook, Market Definitions, and the Goldilocks Problem. American Action Forum (AAF). August 25, 2021.

  17. Tiago S. Prado and Johannes M. Bauer. Effects of Big Tech Acquisitions on Start-up Funding and Innovation. Quello Center Working Paper No. 04-21. SSRN. Last revised: August 25, 2021.

  18. Nicolas Petit. A Theory of Antitrust Limits (George Mason Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1939, 2021). Posted: September 10, 2021.

  19. Asheesh Agarwal. Will the US emulate China's tech takedown? The Hill. September 11, 2021.

  20. National Security Issues Posed by House Antitrust Bills. Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). September 13, 2021.

  21. Zachary Basu, Margaret Harding McGill. Ex-intel officials claim antitrust could hurt U.S. in China tech race. Axios. September 15, 2021.

  22. Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? The Economist. September 18, 2021.

  23. Aurelien Portuese. Reforming Merger Reviews to Preserve Creative Destruction. ITIF. September 27, 2021.

  24. Giovanna Massarotto. Using Tech to Fight Big Tech. Bloomberg Law. September 27, 2021.

  25. Robert D. Atkinson and Jackie Whisman. Why There Is a Disconnect Between the Economics of Innovation and U.S. Antitrust Policy, with David Teece. (Podcast interview.) ITIF. October 4, 2021.

  26. Jamil N. Jaffer and Joshua D. Wright. We Need to Protect American Innovation in the Competition with China. Newsweek. October 11, 2021.

  27. Rachel Chiu. Regulators Need to Rethink How They Approach Tech Antitrust. National Review. October 12, 2021.

  28. Klon Kitchen. Invoking 'Big Tech' as an accusation can endanger American security. The Hill. October 15, 2021.

  29. Matt Schruers. Technology 'antitrust' legislation could slow product innovation, hurt the digital economy. The Hill. October 18, 2021.

  30. U.S. Chamber Letter on S. 2992, the "American Innovation and Choice Online Act.” U.S. Chamber of Commerce. October 20, 2021.

  31. Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Biden’s Executive Order on Competition.” Virtual webinar. ITIF. October 22, 2021.

  32. Alden Abbott and Weifeng Zhong. China and the EU Are No Examples for U.S. Tech Innovation. The National Interest. November 2, 2021.

  33. Competition, Regulation, and Innovation: Can We Strike a Balance? Virtual webinar featuring David Teece. Competition Policy International. November 3, 2021.

  34. Antitrust Code by Concurrences. Dynamic Competition and potential entry in the digital space. Interview with David Teece. November 10, 2021.

  35. Don Rosenberg. You can scrutinize Big Tech, but don’t punish it for succeeding. Fortune. November 10, 2021.

  36. Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “FTC Rulemaking Authority: Toward Precautionary Regulations?” Virtual webinar. ITIF. November 12, 2021.

  37. Editorial Board. U.S. Tech Companies Aren’t Monopolies. Bloomberg. November 24, 2021.

  38. Doug Kelly. Seven Things Lawmakers Won’t Address In This Week’s Congressional Hearings On “Big Tech.” American Edge Project. December 8, 2021.

2020

  1. Robert Atkinson. Seventeen Flaws in the Cicilline Antitrust Report on Competition in Digital Markets. ITIF. October 23, 2020.

  2. Aurelien Portuese. A Search for Sanity in Antitrust: Move (Too) Fast, Break (Innovative) Things? ITIF. October 28, 2020.

  3. Robert D. Atkinson and Joe Kennedy. The Antitrust “Challenge” of Digital Platforms: How a Fixation on Size Threatens Productivity and Innovation. ITIF. November 10, 2020.

  4. Jan Rybnicek. Innovation in the United States and Europe. The Global Antitrust Institute Report on the Digital Economy 13. SSRN. Posted: November 19, 2020.

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