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Nexstar-Tegna and the Problem of Double-Secret Merger Review: Why Antitrust Should Trump ‘Public Interest’

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) recently sent a second request to Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. seeking additional information about their proposed $6.2 billion merger. This request extends the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act waiting period by 30 days, pending the companies’ compliance. According to a securities filing, the two television-station ownership groups anticipate their planned merger Nexstar-Tegna and the Problem of Double-Secret Merger Review: Why Antitrust Should Trump ‘Public Interest’

Nobel Prize Winners’ Work Supports Dynamic Antitrust Enforcement

Antitrust should center on dynamic market forces that drive major technological change, rather than on static “big is bad” market analysis, based on the work of the 2025 economics Nobel Prize winners. Antitrust enforcers in the United States and around the world could benefit by incorporating these insights into their policy development. Focus on Dynamic Nobel Prize Winners’ Work Supports Dynamic Antitrust Enforcement

Korea’s NAVER Shopping: A Misguided Replica of the EU’s Google Shopping Decision?

The Supreme Court of Korea’s Oct. 16 decision in the long-awaited NAVER Shopping case delivered a resounding defeat for the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC). In finding that NAVER—a local search-based platform that competes with Google in Korea—had not violated Korean competition law, the court overturned both the KFTC’s January 2021 decision and the December Korea’s NAVER Shopping: A Misguided Replica of the EU’s Google Shopping Decision?

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