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Airlines’ Crackdown on Skiplagging Raises Antitrust Questions Over Fare Practices

In this note we consider the anti-competitive effects of restrictions by US airlines on 'skiplagging’ and the potential for them

October 4, 2024

Grand Piano or Grand Scam: Are Piano Buyers Overpaying for Prestige?

Fideres's investigation finds that Steinway’s dominance in the market for professional grand pianos might be attributable to anticompetitive deals with

Goldman Sachs, Three Years Later: What Changed—and What Didn’t

In an earlier publication, Fideres analyzed how defendants’ strategies at the 10b5 class certification stage developed following the 2021 and

Coinbase’s Castle: Anticompetitive Tactics or Clever Business?

In June 2023, the SEC published a complaint against Coinbase, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that controls 76% of the market,

Supreme Court’s Goldman Ruling Shifts Landscape for Securities Class Actions

Fideres has analyzed a sample of 10b-5 filings to determine the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2021 Goldman ruling. We find

December 18, 2023

Prepayment Energy Meters Disproportionately Impact Vulnerable UK Households

Fideres’s original investigation uncovers widespread discriminatory conduct in the market for household gas/electricity - affecting 2 million minority households. This

December 12, 2023

Goodwill Gone? Accounting Practices Under the Microscope

This year’s banking crisis involved four major fire-sale deals at steep discount prices which resulted in aggregate net gains of

November 8, 2023

Digital Gatekeeping: How Reddit’s API Changes May Undermine Third-Party Innovation

Regulars and pundits are increasingly recognizing how digital platforms that benefit from network effects can engage in a sort of

September 8, 2023

Justice Bottlenecked: When Systems Fail To Deliver

What do UK Mobile Contract Price Rises Tell us about the Bottleneck on Justice? Following news coverage on the role of