# Professor Nicholas Economides comments on the Justice Department's antitrust probe of Google

1 Faculty News June 2, 2019 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-gets-ready-for-legal-fight-as-u-s-weighs-an-antitrust-probe-11559521581) -- "'Google has become much more prominent than it was 10 years ago. The usual behavioral remedies—stop this behavior—are not going to restore competition,' said [Nicholas Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), an economics professor at New York University Stern School of Business. 'In my view that’s a failure of the regulatory system which acted very slowly in Europe and did not act in the U.S.'"

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