Kellogg School of Management

Creating Economic Advantage By Setting Compatibility Standards: Can 'Physical Tie-Ins' Extend Monopoly Power?

The paper deals with the micro-economics of interface manipulation, i.e. the design of the interface between two products to enhance the profits accruing to the firm controlling the design. Taking ...
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Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules

Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that ...
NBC Chicago

38-year-old grew up playing Monopoly in Nicaragua: Now she has a Yale Ph.D., 4 rental properties and $268,000 in household income

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. Cristina Tello-Trillo is the daughter of two economists. But ...
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The economic implications of sectoral monopoly in Nigeria

For the last 60-plus years, the Nigerian government has maintained exclusive regulatory oversight over the sector, determining pricing for refined petroleum products in line with global market indices ...

A federal judge rules Meta isn't a monopoly, keeping its social media empire intact

A federal judge ruled that the FTC failed to prove Meta formed a monopoly through its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram.