The European Union and its member states are quickly updating merger rules to address killer acquisitions and the economics of digital platforms. In a new article published in the Antitrust Law Journal, Anna Tzanaki explores how these endeavors challenge the institutional design of EU merger control and how this design can evolve to tackle new economic and geopolitical problems without forfeiting founding legal principles.

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Anthropic has formed an exclusive artificial intelligence consortium to use its general purpose artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos, to identify and fix vulnerabilities in critical internet and digital infrastructure. Madhavi Singh warns this consortium, called Project Glasswing, could contravene antitrust law and argues for regulatory oversight to ensure that it does not become a front for an illegal cartel.

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Trade wars between the United States and Canada have sharply reduced the number of Canadian tourists traveling to the U.S. In new research, André Kurmann, Étienne Lalé, and Julien Martin use novel methods to measure how this decline in tourism has negatively impacted American workers and communities.

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The House v. NCAA private antitrust settlement professionalized collegiate sports by requiring colleges and universities to compensate student athletes. The case has changed the economics of college sports, pushing schools to spend big to pay for top athletes to field teams that compete for championships. New research from the Progressive Policy Institute finds that although the new model has narrowed success to the top programs, the ability for schools to pay for success has now been mostly priced in, writes Diana L. Moss.

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ProMarket Managing Editor Andy Shi interviews Virginia Tech Professor Chad Levinson about his forthcoming book, The President's Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to Americans, out June 2 at Harvard University Press.

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The Stigler Center is hosting its annual conference all day April 16. This year's conference explores whether capitalism can be popular in the United States in the 21st century.

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Firms may file a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) against civil society to silence criticism for socially harmful activity, such as the use of dirty technologies. In new research, Swarnodeep Homroy finds that legal protections for free speech push firms to address some of these criticisms by developing new technologies.

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In new research, Cree Jones, Tyler B. Lindley, and Thomas Smith investigate how restrictions on the president to remove independent agency officials affect agency behavior. Such restrictions have historically had surprisingly little effect. However, recent political polarization has drastically increased the importance of removal restrictions in blocking political influence.

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The green transition is faltering in both advanced and developing economies. While politics and market risk is stalling private investment in clean energy in advanced economies, an imbalanced global value chain is preventing investment in clean energy in developing countries, write Piergiuseppe Fortunato and Verena Hitner Barros.

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Chinese automotive manufacturers gain a competitive edge through laxer rules governing personal data protection and intellectual property. Oscar Borgogno and Giovanni Veronese argue that ensuring effective compliance with European law could help European manufacturers re-establish a level playing field while upholding EU constitutional values.

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