Antitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a powerful technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest pretending to be science. But it is an economic policy tool working alongside other tools. After a lifetime as antitrust expert economist, and one of the original proponents of the “more economic approach” in Europe, Cristina Caffarra discusses with friends in policy and academe why we need to escape the myth competition will deliver “a level playing field, consumer choice and therefore innovation”, and move forward to connecting the dots with everything else that matters to growth and prosperity.
About the Podcast
Cristina Caffarra is an expert competition economist who headed the European antitrust practices of two major consulting firms, leading large teams and giving economic testimony in Europe and across the world on the most high-profile cases (mergers, conduct) of the past 25 years. She is now convening discussions, writing and speaking mainly around the digital economy, and “connecting the dots” between antitrust and other areas of economic policy.
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