July 27, 2023
GDP Data Shows Disposable Income Growth Slowing as Consumers Seek...
The latest data from the U.S. Department of Commerce show that consumer spending helped push gross domestic product (GDP) past expectations. But the growth in disposable income appears to be slowing as those same...
July 27, 2023
Netflix Looks for Partners Beyond Microsoft to Boost Ad-Supported Tier
When Netflix chose Microsoft over the likes of Comcast and Google as the launch partner for its ad-supported tier in 2022 it surprised many, but it may come as no...
July 27, 2023
Nearly 8% of Borrowers Who Have Not Repaid Student Loans...
When it comes to student loans, it’s been three-plus years of paused repayment, a span in which many consumers have seen their financial lifestyle upended due to macroeconomic factors such...
July 27, 2023
Mattel CEO Teases More ‘Barbie’ Content
At this point, everyone is seeing Barbie pink, whether you like it or not. And that’s a vision toymaker Mattel has ambitious plans to sustain. Last week, the highly anticipated...
July 27, 2023
How Old Navy Is Trying to Capture Back-to-School Spend
Consumers’ spending behavior has slowed down, which is causing concern among retailers. Although they are still making purchases, the rate at which they are doing so falls short of what...
July 27, 2023
Microsoft’s Teams Target of EU Antitrust Investigation
Is Microsoft forcing customers to purchase its video conferencing app Teams? That’s what a European Commission (EC) antitrust investigation hopes to determine. The commission announced Thursday (July 27) it had begun a probe to determine if...
July 27, 2023
An Insider Explains FedNow’s Potential to Shake Up the Payments...
Christine Mayes, executive vice president at Corporate One Federal Credit Union, details how she believes the launch of FedNow will bring healthy competition to the real-time payments industry. — In...
July 27, 2023
Antitrust Chronicle® – Coordinated Effects
Dear Readers, This edition of the Chronicle deals with the theme of coordinated effects and related issues in tacit collusion. In simple terms, coordinated effects arise when a merger enables...
July 27, 2023
The Oligopoly Problem, Trigger Strategies, and “Coordinated Effects”
In earlier work, Jonathan Baker and I explored what we called “non-purposive coordination” and the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines call “parallel accommodating conduct.” Such conduct arises when oligopolists respond to one...