John Kwoka

“Ticketmaster has taken a sizeable fee for decades. It harms us directly because we’re overcharged with these,” said economist John Kwoka.

“This verdict underscores what a bad idea settling was,” John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told AFP.

John Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commission, said the verdict was a warning to large corporations in other industries.  

But John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who specializes in antitrust, thinks that supply and demand aren’t enough to explain what’s happening. “I’m one of the economists who’ve argued you need to break up some companies,” he says.

It was within the bounds of California’s law. Still, the communications illustrate the limits of transparency laws to regulate dominant players, said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University who has written frequently about the company as well as advised state attorneys general on litigation.

“[T]hose were the mechanisms for gaining share, for preventing the emergence of new competitors, and for monetizing its search monopoly,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University.

Now, Big Tech companies facing antitrust lawsuits are likely to use the ruling to their advantage, said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “I think this gives an avenue, rightly or wrongly, for some of the other companies that are in the crosshairs to say that technology has made antitrust arguments irrelevant,” he […]

John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University who recently worked for the FTC, said the Meta and Google cases are similar to Microsoft’s antitrust case in 1998.

The US case will now move to a second “remedies” phase, which could also lead to Alphabet being broken up, said John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University.

Separating Chrome from Google and preventing deals for default search placement “would put Google Search into competition with other paths for advertisers to reach potential customers,” John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said.