Why We Should Ban PBM Rebates
February 13, 2024 — This policy brief explains how pharmacy benefit managers weaponize rebates to raise prices for patients, debunks myths surrounding their purpose and use, and details how policymakers can eliminate them.
Factsheet: The FTC is Holding Corporate Actors Accountable, Protecting Small Businesses, Workers, and Consumers
July 13, 2022 (Updated September 2023) — While navigating a leadership transition during a pandemic, an historic merger wave, and unprecedented economic dominance driven by rampant concentration, Chair Khan is steering the FTC to protect working families and honest businesses with stronger law enforcement.
Morgan’s Monopoly Digest – February 2024
February, 2024 — December version of Economic Liberties' monthly newsletter that covers the latest with the federal antitrust agencies — the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division — and other big developments in competition policy.
Reshoring and Restoring: CHIPS Implementation for a Competitive Semiconductor Industry
February 6, 2024 — The American Economic Liberties Project today released a new paper identifying market structures and business practices that could undermine CHIPS’ success in growing a resilient U.S. semiconductor industry and proposing competition and trade policies to overcome them.
How to Fix Flying: A New Approach to Regulating the Airline Industry
January 26, 2024 — As alarming recent safety incidents shine a spotlight on the dangers of a deregulated airline industry—atop longstanding discontent with shrinking seat sizes, bogus fees, chronic delays and cancellations, and route closures—“How to Fix Flying: A New Approach to Regulating the Airline Industry," from the American Economic Liberties Project and Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator provides an extensive menu of policy options to address the ongoing crisis.
The Case Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster
January 4, 2024 — Amid renewed scrutiny of Live Nation-Ticketmaster's monopoly power and speculation of a new antitrust suit from the Justice Department, AELP provides a roadmap in its newly released brief to finally rein in this monopoly.