Market Structures

Alaska Air on Sunday announced it will buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion.

12 strangers, divided into pairs must find the other person in New York City with only $100 and no idea who they're looking for.Read the full story from ABC News here: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1730849

EU antitrust regulators said on Monday Amazon's $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot may squeeze out rival robot cleaners on its online marketplace.

Amusement parks Six Flags and Cedar Fair are merging in an $8 billion deal that creates a theme park powerhouse as consumers look to slow their spending.

On Sept 26, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegall...

The US government and 17 states are suing Amazon in a landmark monopoly case reflecting years of allegations that the e-commerce giant abused its economic dominance and harmed fair competition.

The lawsuit alleges that Amazon artificially drove up prices for consumers and locked sellers into using the marketplace through coercive tactics.

British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval.

It’s the government’s biggest antitrust case since the DOJ took on Microsoft in 1998.

Google’s dominant search engine market share has prompted the U.S. Justice Department to file a lawsuit over anticompetitive practices.

Creators say they struggle to gain a foothold in a font market dominated by Monotype

A Game Theory Problem

The Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 could change the way we swipe.

Gaming is big business, on track to be worth $321 billion by 2026, which is why Lina Khan and the FTC have their sights set on the sector.

How a simple number shares the future of firms and markets in the eyes of the Federal Trade Commission

The latest attempt to make a deal for the books giant, home to Stephen King and Colleen Hoover titles, bets on a suitor outside of "Big Five" publishing rivals.

The new guidelines are meant to give businesses and courts a sense of how the two agencies determine whether a deal is unlawful.

New guidelines from the FTC and Justice Department are part of a broader push to promote competition and limit what the White House sees as excessive consolidation.

Microsoft now has a path to close its giant deal

For more than a century the American beer market was dominated by domestic beers, but in the last couple of decades a new contender emerged south of the bord...

“RT @micsolana: san francisco is voting to indefinitely ban all new weed shops in the city because current shop owners have complained there…”

Businesses compete against each other all the time. What are the consequences for society of this competition? In this episode, I have a conversation with Da...

Amazon denied that such a plan was in the works.

Undoing the partnership would be difficult, especially during the peak summer travel season, which airlines have already sold tickets for.

Taylor Swift correctly captures the behavior of these senators when she sings, Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism, Like some kind of congressman?

Worksheet – Price discrimination, Oligopoly Related news article: PG&E monthly bills could jump for many customers due to new state law (SiliconValley.com, April 13, 2023) Summary: This worksheet could be used for in-class or homework practice. Students will be asked to read a short article abou...

Altar bread was once made by hundreds of communities of nuns across the US. Now, a for-profit company controls nearly the entire market.

Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://clickhubspot.com/9svNuns have earned money all sorts of ways over the years: from tea...

Many worry that monopolies will run rampant without regulation. The market process, however, illustrates a different story. And while banning monopolies via anti-trust law may sound good, the actual practice amounts to fighting fire with fire.