A decade’s worth of evidence supports troubling findings that private equity business practices have a negative impact on competition in healthcare and on patients. A new white paper, produced by experts at the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) and UC Berkeley, calls for immediate attention...

Anticompetitive conduct involved in purchasing labor services by a group of firms (or a single firm) sometimes may have the effect of benefiting downstream consumers even as the conduct harms the firms’ workers. Defendants may attempt to justify those restraints—and may argue the ancillary...

A new report from the American Antitrust Institute, Privacy and Antitrust at the Crossroads of Big Tech, explores the increasingly complex relationship between competition and privacy in the context of Big Tech. The burgeoning growth of surveillance capitalism business models is leading to...

Market concentration and imbalances in bargaining leverage are a tremendous economic and social problem. As lax antitrust enforcement and diluted antitrust doctrine have allowed markets to become more concentrated and monopolies to fester, the idea of letting companies bargain collectively,...