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Nov 26, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Niko Lusiani |Ketan Ahuja
The last few months have been tough for Google. After a judge held the company illegally monopolized online search, the Justice Department just proposed remedies, including forcing Google to sell its Chrome web browser, prohibiting exclusive search engine licensing deals and self-preferencing, obliging the company to license its data and web index more broadly and limiting its control over the evolving artificial intelligence industry.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Niko Lusiani
The election results have sparked a palpable sense of anticipation, if not outright salivation, among corporate leaders, predicting a surge in consolidation, particularly in sectors like tech, media, and finance under the incoming administration. This renewed optimism over mergers and acquisitions is fueled by expectations of a pullback of the Biden administration’s vigorous regulatory and legal enforcement of antitrust law.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani |Lauren Melodia |Kristina Karlsson |Felicia Wong
I. IntroductionThe United States is in the beginning stages of a momentous energy transition. In the next few decades, our country must move away from an arcane, centralized, fossil fuel–based energy system and toward a more decentralized, renewable system promising to “electrify everything”—from heating, to cooking, to transport, to data processing, and beyond.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States chose not to blow up the tax code. In Moore v. US, seven justices upheld the constitutionality of a tax on foreign income, known as the Mandatory Repatriation Tax. In a brief last September, my coauthors and I argued that the provision, passed as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, was as constitutional as it was overly generous to US multinational companies.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Ketan Ahuja |Niko Lusiani |Emily DiVito
IntroductionInnovation is key to improving economic growth and people’s standard of living. Approaches to antitrust should therefore focus on mitigating harms to innovation, in addition to “static” welfare measures like prices. Yet while antitrust cases often mention innovation, litigators rarely center cases around it, and courts almost never intervene in the name of harms to innovation.
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May 15, 2024 | 
promarket.org | Niko Lusiani
Much of the focus of recent antitrust scrutiny has been on companies, with very little attention paid to the motivations of the individual managers setting the anticompetitive strategies of their enterprises. Understanding the concrete personal incentives of the billionaire blockholders entrenched at the helm of most of America’s incumbent corporations is critical to devising effective competition, corporate governance, and tax policy fixes to tackle harmful market concentration at the root. Meta.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani
Niko Lusiani Director, Corporate Power Niko Lusiani is the director of the corporate power Program at the Roosevelt where he leads research focused on corporate power and its impact on the economy.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani |Emily DiVito
Introduction: Taxing Monopoly and Taxing WealthToday, large incumbent firms dominate industries across the United States economy—from meat to medicines, finance to tech, and retail to telecoms. This pivot away from a more dynamic, multiplayer, participatory business sector to a stagnant one stunted under the shadow of a few mega-oligopolies has real consequences for people.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani
The RI Guide to SOTUEconomic policy featured heavily in last night’s State of the Union address, indicating that a new economic order, driven by bold ideas, is emerging. “This year, the government has an essential role to play in not only creating equitable markets for essential goods but also ensuring equitable access to the things we all need to thrive, like housing, care, and higher education,” said Suzanne Kahn, vice president of the think tank at Roosevelt.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Niko Lusiani |Emily DiVito |Reuven Avi-Yonah
Bipartisan tax policy breakthroughs are rare in Washington these days. So as the Senate considers the bipartisan tax bill to invest in 16 million children from low-income families eligible for the child tax credit (CTC), many hesitate to question what is being offered in exchange: a series of tax breaks for the country’s largest corporations. However, history shows that there are real costs to cutting taxes for the country’s most powerful corporations in exchange for child investments.
