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Large corporations increasingly dominate markets, the flow of information, and political influence. In response, many governments have used antitrust policies in an attempt to rein in companies. Examples include investigations and cases brought by the United States and the European Union against Google, in addition to major investigations against Microsoft, Facebook, and others.
This panel brings together scholars of political science, economics, and law to discuss the changing landscape of antitrust policy in an era of multinational corporations. Ryan Brutger (UC Berkeley, Political Science) will moderate the panel. Panelists include Amy Pond (Washington University St. Louis, Political Science), Prasad Krishnamurthy (UC Berkeley, Law), and Michael Allen (Stanford, Political Science). The panelists will speak about new challenges in competition policy, the domestic and international dimensions of antitrust policy, and the economic, political, and social considerations that shape antitrust policy and enforcement.
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Amy Pond is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining WashU, she taught at the Technical University of Munich and at Texas A&M University. Professor Pond conducts research in international and comparative political economy. Her current research looks at how market concentration and international ownership affect domestic policies, including the provision of public goods like property rights and democratic representation. She has also worked on trade and financial liberalization and the broader logic of institutional change.
Michael Allen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research interests span international political economy, international institutions, and law, with a focus on the politics of global capitalism. He studies how the growth of private authority influences domestic legal development and the power of countries to regulate foreign commerce. He also has ongoing research projects in related areas including special economic zones, transnational anti-corruption efforts and global competition law. Prior to joining Stanford, he earned a PhD in Government from Cornell University and held postdoctoral positions at Yale University and Harvard University.
Prasad Krishnamurthy joined the Berkeley Law Faculty in 2010. He holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. Prasad’s research and teaching interests include financial regulation, antitrust and competition policy, consumer law and policy, and distributive justice.
Ryan Brutger is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in the department of Politics at Princeton University, where he received a Harold W. Dodds Fellowship. Prior to joining Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Brutger specializes in experimental methodology, public opinion, and international relations. His research crosses political economy, international law, and international security, examining the domestic politics and political psychology of politics and economics. He also researches experimental methodology, with a focus on experimental design and survey experiments. He is also a 2024-2025 Matrix Faculty Fellow.
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Roselyn Hsueh is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. She is the author of Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge, 2022) and China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell, 2011), and scholarship on states and markets and industrial policy. Her current research examines the technological intensity of trade and Chinese outward foreign direct investment, and the economic and security nexus in technology governance. She held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California. She conducted international fieldwork as a Fulbright Global Scholar, served as a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (China). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
John Minnich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the LSE. His research focuses on the political economy of China’s rise and its impact on U.S.-China relations. His current book project looks at how domestic institutions and global production networks shaped China’s use of foreign technology transfer policies after the Cold War. Other ongoing research projects examine the origins of the U.S.-China “Chip War,” the durability of weaponized interdependence, and the evolution of Chinese industrial and technology policies. John received his PhD from MIT. Prior to joining the LSE, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary China.
Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science (by courtesy) in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law, where she also currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. She is the author of Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence, as well as numerous articles on legal mobilization, courts, political space and professionalization in contemporary China. Stern is currently working on a comparative project on the politics of access to legal information and the emergent market for court data in China, France and the United States, which explores how different political systems responded to the rise of big data, machine learning and natural language processing in the 2010s. She was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
AnnaLee Saxenian is professor of information and economic development at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as dean of the School of Information from 2004-19. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. She is author of Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994) and The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard, 2006) and has published widely on the geography and dynamics of industrial change. She chaired the Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation from 2010-15. She holds degrees from MIT, UC Berkeley, and Williams College.
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