Building a New Consensus on Antitrust Reform
Please join the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on Wednesday, November 14, at noon for a conversation on reforming federal antitrust law.
Competition protects consumers, fosters innovation, increases wages, and spurs entrepreneurship. Antitrust laws are the primary tool to prevent the accumulation and exploitation of monopoly power in the marketplace. There is substantial concern that U.S. antitrust laws and their enforcement are failing to protect competitive markets, and that the resulting increase in monopoly power is harming consumers, workers, and the dynamism of the overall economy. This event will focus on issues that policymakers should consider in assessing potential reforms to antitrust laws and enforcement.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, will deliver keynote remarks. A panel of prominent experts in antitrust law and policy will discuss areas of agreement and disagreement on the broad principles of reform.
RSVP is required by Friday, November 9.
Featured keynote:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Presentation: Louis Brandeis: A Man for This Season
Jonathan Sallet, Senior Fellow, Benton Foundation, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission
Discussants:
Renata Hesse, Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, former Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
Michael Kades, Director for Markets and Competition Policy, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
Sandeep Vaheesan, Legal Director, Open Markets Institute
Introductory remarks:
Heather Boushey, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Closing remarks:
Carl Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
For any questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.
Registration opens at 11:30 a.m., and the event will begin promptly at noon. Lunch will be provided. Event is designed to meet Senate and House ethics guidelines as a widely attended event.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. One of our flagship programs is our work on competition policy and market concentration, which seeks to understand the causes and impact of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that can strengthen competition.
Please join the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on Wednesday, November 14, at noon for a conversation on reforming federal antitrust law.
Competition protects consumers, fosters innovation, increases wages, and spurs entrepreneurship. Antitrust laws are the primary tool to prevent the accumulation and exploitation of monopoly power in the marketplace. There is substantial concern that U.S. antitrust laws and their enforcement are failing to protect competitive markets, and that the resulting increase in monopoly power is harming consumers, workers, and the dynamism of the overall economy. This event will focus on issues that policymakers should consider in assessing potential reforms to antitrust laws and enforcement.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, will deliver keynote remarks. A panel of prominent experts in antitrust law and policy will discuss areas of agreement and disagreement on the broad principles of reform.
RSVP is required by Friday, November 9.
Featured keynote:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Presentation: Louis Brandeis: A Man for This Season
Jonathan Sallet, Senior Fellow, Benton Foundation, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission
Discussants:
Renata Hesse, Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, former Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
Michael Kades, Director for Markets and Competition Policy, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
Sandeep Vaheesan, Legal Director, Open Markets Institute
Introductory remarks:
Heather Boushey, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Closing remarks:
Carl Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
For any questions, please contact events@equitablegrowth.org.
Registration opens at 11:30 a.m., and the event will begin promptly at noon. Lunch will be provided. Event is designed to meet Senate and House ethics guidelines as a widely attended event.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. One of our flagship programs is our work on competition policy and market concentration, which seeks to understand the causes and impact of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that can strengthen competition.