Big Tech and Antitrust: Rethinking Competition Policy for the Digital Era

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

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?

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