August 28, 2018
The Amazon / Whole Foods overreaction: Antitrust populism exposed [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Dirk Auer is a Research Fellow at the Liege Competition and Innovation Institute.
Resources: popular media
August 28, 2018
It’s Not Time To Panic About Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods. Yet. [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Hal Singer is a Principal at Economists Incorporated and an Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
August 28, 2018
The Lasting Legacy of the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Will Likely Be the Spread of Grocery Tech [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Will Rinehart is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the American Action Forum.
August 28, 2018
Amazon/Whole Foods: What Me Worry? [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Robert D. Atkinson is President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
August 28, 2018
Amazon-Whole Foods: The Speculation Then, the Evidence Today [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Eric Fruits is the Chief Economist at the International Center for Law & Economics.
August 28, 2018
Amazon and Whole Foods, Historically Considered [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]
Steve Horwitz is the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Department of Economics, at Ball State University.
August 27, 2018
Blog Symposium Announcement: Is Amazon’s Appetite Bottomless? The Whole Foods Merger After One Year
One year ago tomorrow the Amazon/Whole Foods merger closed, following its approval by the FTC. The merger was something of a flashpoint in the growing populist antitrust movement, raising some interesting questions — and a host of objections from a number of scholars, advocates, journalists, antitrust experts, and others who voiced a range of possible problematic outcomes.
August 20, 2018
Lambert & Sykuta Comment to FTC on Common Ownership
The Federal Trade Commission will soon hold hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The topics to be considered include...
August 16, 2018
Lowering the Barriers to Entry to the Common Ownership Debate
One of the hottest topics in antitrust these days is institutional investors’ common ownership of the stock of competing firms. Large investment companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity offer index…