The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine

Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose

The world's largest mattress maker now owns America's largest mattress retailer. The FTC tried to stop them and lost.

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game

Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

How to spot a monopoly - Works in Progress Magazine

Competition makes capitalism work. A new method for measuring it may be the holy grail of economic regulation.

For one thing, looking at concentration at a national level can obscure what’s going on at the local level.

Even when concentration does rise, it’s not always bad for competition.

The Perils of Algorithmic Pricing

Hotels and landlords can mitigate legal risks by choosing decentralized revenue management systems that use public data.

AI-Driven Antitrust and Competition Law: Algorithmic Collusion, Self-Learning Pricing Tools, and Legal Challenges in the US and EU

AI algorithmic collusion challenges traditional antitrust law. Legal AI frameworks adapt to prosecute self-learning pricing tools

reinforcement learning (RL), can lead to outcomes resembling traditional collusion

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Shorting Your Rivals: A Radical Antitrust Remedy - Marginal REVOLUTION

Conventional antitrust enforcement tries to prevent harmful mergers by blocking them but empirical evidence shows that rival stock prices often rise when a merger is blocked—suggesting that many blocked mergers would have increased competition. In other words, we may be stopping…

How Google Defended Itself in the Ad Tech Antitrust Trial

The tech giant, which wrapped up its arguments in the federal monopoly trial, simply says it has the best product.

Comments on the FTC antitrust investigation of Google

DOJ Mulls Hitting Live Nation With a Terrible Swift Sword

If the Justice Department sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster, it will be armed with antitrust arguments. But the defendants will have defenses ready.

Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea

With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.

How Google got away with charging publishers more than anyone else

The DOJ wants to show Google can do this because it has a monopoly.

Decoding the jargon behind Google’s antitrust ad tech trial: a glossary for the confused

From industry terms like "header bidding" to "AdX" to "DSPs" to internal Google terms, such as "Jedi Blue," there's a lot to wrap your head around.

Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case

The DOJ and Google faced off in a 10-week trial.