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Antitrust Chronicle® – CRESSE Insights

Fall 2020, Volume 1, Number 1

Dear Readers, The October 2020 CPI Antitrust Chronicle® includes articles based on presentations from the online Special Policy Sessions (“SPS”) organized by CRESSE in collaboration with CPI in June – July 2020. The contributions here include articles by a number of prominent economists and legal experts. The 2020 SPSs focused on the following topics: • […]

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June

“Buy Now, Pay Later” (“BNPL”) has moved from fintech curiosity to embedded infrastructure in modern consumer markets, quietly reshaping how credit is extended, priced, and experienced. What began as a frictionless alternative to traditional lending now sits at the intersection of payments, consumer protection, and competition policy.




May

As health systems evolve beyond purely clinical data toward richer, more contextualized information environments, the integration of SDoH into AI systems raises a central tension: the same data that can improve equity and care delivery can also encode and obscure discrimination. The contributions in this issue begin to map that terrain.




April

This Chronicle explores the rapidly evolving intersection of foreign direct investment and technology, a space where traditional assumptions about openness, control, and market integration are being fundamentally reworked.


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