Restoring Competition in the United States: A Vision of Antitrust Enforcement for the Next Decade

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth held a virtual conference (opens in a new tab)on November 19 to discuss the release of Equitable Growth’s antitrust transition report (opens in a new tab).

An emerging bipartisan consensus warns that antitrust enforcement has failed to protect the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, as underscored by the October 2020 House Judiciary Committee’s report, “Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets (opens in a new tab).” Federal antitrust enforcers in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission have been criticized for being too lax, and courts have been criticized for incorrectly limiting the reach of the antitrust laws. Equitable Growth’s transition report is the work of a committee of academics, legal experts, and former government officials who assessed the antitrust landscape and provided their recommendations for the next administration’s antitrust enforcement priorities to correct these failures.

This webinar consisted of a series of panels discussing these recommendations for improving antitrust enforcement. The panels covered a broad range of issues, from political leadership at the agencies to case selection and the need for legislation. This conference featured the following authors of the transition report and commentators:

Additional event resources

Restoring Competition in the United States: A vision for antitrust enforcement for the next administration and Congress (opens in a new tab)

Equitable Growth releases policy agenda for U.S. antitrust enforcement (opens in a new tab)