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GM partners with LG to challenge China's LFP monopoly in low-cost EV production by upgrading their Tennessee battery factory. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

GM to challenge China’s LFP monopoly with upgraded battery factory | TechCrunch
The factory’s overhaul will give U.S. LFP production a significant boost.

Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets "a dangerous precedent" and "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart" (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/apple-doj-lawsuit-answer-iphone/

Apple slams DOJ lawsuit: ’threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart’ - 9to5Mac
The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.” Apple...

According to the complaint, more than 60% of debit transactions in the United States run on Visa’s debit network,
allowing it to charge over $7 billion in fees each year for processing those transactions.
The complaint further alleges that Visa illegally maintains its monopoly power by insulating itself from competition.
For example, Visa wields its dominance, enormous scale, and centrality to the debit ecosystem to impose a web of exclusionary agreements on merchants and…

Justice Department Sues Visa for Monopolizing Debit Markets
The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against Visa for monopolization and other unlawful conduct in debit network markets in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo via Om Malik
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/

Time for authors to get off Audible (and ideally Amazon as well) before you'll find yourself trapped in a death spiral.
And yes, I know how hard that would hit most. But if Amazon is able to destroy competitors, nothing will stop them from exploiting you even more.
https://www.instagram.com/r…

Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2025/07/26/the-satya-of-satyas-layoff-memo/

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo
“The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …

John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules https://www.404media.co/john-deere-must-face-ftc-lawsuit-over-its-tractor-repair-monopoly-judge-rules/

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

Durable Goods Monopoly with Free Disposal: A Folk Theorem
Zihao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13137 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13137

Durable Goods Monopoly with Free Disposal: A Folk Theorem
We study a model of dynamic monopoly with differentiated goods that buyers can freely dispose of. The model extends the framework of Coasian bargaining to situations in which the quantity or quality of the good is endogenously determined. Our main result is that when players are patient, the seller can sustain in equilibrium any payoff between the lowest possible buyer valuation and (approximately) the highest payoff achievable with commitment power, thus establishing a folk theorem. We apply o…

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

I’m getting the distinct sense nobody at Google saw this. Or at least nobody with authority. So if you work there, forward it to your boss.
“My Request to Google on Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Fucking hashtag spammers. Trying to seem like some official ”Republic of France ” account even.
And what does ”privatisation” and ”multinationals” have to do with this? Trenitalia is fully owned by the Italian state. Probably some fanatic leftist loonie longing for past state monopoly times posting this?

Ach mansen, ga toch weg van Facebook. (En Google, Apple, Amazon en Microsoft)
Zuckerberg speelt Monopoly door halve villawijk op te kopen, tot onvr…
https://archive.ph/BFZHQ

Competition Complexity in Multi-Item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity
Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Linda Cai, Yiding Feng, Yingkai Li, S. Matthew Weinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09291 …

Competition Complexity in Multi-Item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity
We quantify the value of the monopoly's bargaining power in terms of competition complexity--that is, the number of additional bidders the monopoly must attract in simple auctions to match the expected revenue of the optimal mechanisms (c.f., Bulow and Klemperer, 1996, Eden et al., 2017)--within the setting of multi-item auctions. We show that for simple auctions that sell items separately, the competition complexity is $Θ(\frac{n}α)$ in an environment with $n$ original bidders under the slig…

Monopoly Pricing with a Public Option
Teddy Mekonnen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12779

Monopoly Pricing with a Public Option
This paper examines how a profit-maximizing monopolist competes against a free but capacity-constrained public option. The monopolist strategically restricts its supply beyond standard monopoly levels, thereby intensifying congestion at the public option and increasing consumers' willingness-to-pay for guaranteed access. Expanding the capacity of the public option always reduces producer welfare and, counterintuitively, may also reduce consumer welfare. In contrast, introducing a monopolist to …

😺 A Democratic Socialist Smashes Wall Street in New York: What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-democratic-socialist-smashes-wall

Pornhub is making bullshit claims regarding the privacy issues of the French gov age verification requirements. There are very real and significant problems with the French gov approach, but Pornhub's approach is significantly worse.
Pornhub wants to put the burden of age verification and enforcement on user devices. They even name the actors that should have to bear that burden: Google, Apple and Microsoft.
First off, this creates an artificial monopoly: three American compa…

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
Koki Satsukawa, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08848 https://

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
This study examines how scale economies in the operation of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) affect the efficiency of a transportation system where SAVs coexist with normal vehicles (NVs). We develop a bottleneck model where commuters choose their departure times and mode of travel between SAVs and NVs, and analyze equilibria under three SAV-fare scenarios: marginal-cost pricing, average-cost pricing, and unregulated monopoly pricing. Marginal-cost pricing reduces commuting costs but results i…

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act mandates all new US border surveillance towers are "autonomous", effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on new contracts (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/09/trump-big-beautiful-bill-…

Trump’s Big Beautiful Gift to Anduril
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new border surveillance towers to be certified "autonomous." Only Anduril's fit the bill.

In a stunning reversal, the Trump administration just gave the green light to a major tech merger
— and then fired two Justice Department lawyers who opposed it.
Was corruption at play in the merger decision?
Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with The Lever’s Luke Goldstein and UnHerd Magazine’s Sohrab Ahmari, who first exposed the “mergers over martinis” story behind the reversal

Trump’s New Merger Scandal Is Swampier Than Watergate
After hiring MAGA lawyers, a tech giant got its antitrust case settled, and monopoly cops were fired. Can a Nixon-era law save the day?

A Dynamical Cartography of the Epistemic Diffusion of Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience
Sylvain Fontaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01651 https://

A Dynamical Cartography of the Epistemic Diffusion of Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience
Neuroscience and AI have an intertwined history, largely relayed in the literature of both fields. In recent years, due to the engineering orientations of AI research and the monopoly of industry for its large-scale applications, the mutual expansion of neuroscience and AI in fundamental research seems challenged. In this paper, we bring some empirical evidences that, on the contrary, AI and neuroscience are continuing to grow together, but with a pronounced interest in the fields of study rela…

Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
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- Dynamic Monopoly Pricing With Multiple Varieties: Trading Up
Stefan Buehler, Nicolas Eschenbaum, Severin Lenhard

If you want to break up Google, don't force them to sell an indirect-revenue product like Chrome. Force them to break up their advertising monopoly. Make them sell Android or YouTube. Fine them enough money to set up an endowment that can fund Mozilla or Servo or Ladybird to actually compete with Chrome and its family.

Replaced article(s) found for econ.TH. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.TH/new
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- Luck Out or Outpay? When a Monopoly Competes with a Public Option
Teddy Mekonnen

US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he expects to issue a ruling in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-search-ai-antitrust-trial-57ec6fd…

The Federal Trade Commission, last month, announced that it would approve the merger of two of the biggest ad agencies in the world
-- only if the parties agree to an unusual condition:
The merged company cannot refuse to place ads on websites for political reasons.
The move was a sharp break from its traditional practice.
The F.T.C. is usually focused on such concerns as consumer protection and monopoly power;
Now it’s trying to dictate where businesses adverti…

Opinion | Trump’s Campaign to Coerce Advertisers Into Backing Conservative Media
The administration seeks to coerce advertisers into using conservative media.

A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

A Tale of Two Monopolies
Yi-Chun Chen, Zhengqing Gui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06763 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06763

A Tale of Two Monopolies
We apply marginal analysis à la Bulow and Roberts (1989) to characterize the revenue-maximizing selling mechanism for a multiproduct monopoly. Specifically, we derive the revenue change due to a price perturbation on any subset of bundles holding the prices of other bundles fixed. In an optimal mechanism, total revenue must not increase with any small price change for bundles with positive demand, nor with a small price decrease for bundles with zero demand. For any symmetric two-dimensional t…