The following is the second part to the transcript of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s keynote at the 2025 Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference. Part II includes Ferguson’s interview with University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner and the subsequent audience Q&A. You can read part I, Ferguson’s speech, here. Eric Posner Thank […]| ProMarket
Media pluralism is a core democratic value in Europe. Upholding it requires that media concentration is scrutinized beyond its impact on competition in the traditional economic formulation. By addressing the challenges posed by dominant media players and fostering a diverse information ecosystem, Europe aims to uphold media plurality as a democratic value and ensure that citizens can engage in informed decision-making. From this angle, the European approach to protecting media pluralism might...| ProMarket
Ula Furgal and Magali Eben review the United Kingdom’s efforts to address the lopsided balance of power between traditional news media and digital platforms, embodied in the Cairncross recommendations and subsequent Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. Although U.K. news media have met the Act with optimism, there remain reasons why the new payment and […]| ProMarket
