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Nick Jacobson

Nick Jacobson is a student at Yale Law School. He previously worked as the associate program manager at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy, where he managed the Digital Economy Project. He wrote and edited for the Project’s initiatives on antitrust and competition policy in digital markets. Jacobson was the 2024 Democratic nominee for State Representative in Pennsylvania’s 85th House District and has previously worked at the Pennsylvania State Departments of Health and the Auditor General. He holds a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University.
Antitrust and Competition

“Pay for Half” Offers a Better Remedy for Google’s Search Monopoly

Alissa Cooper
A remedy of “Pay for Half” that limits the share of devices for which Google can pay for default search status, as well as the share of revenue Google can pay its channel parters for that status, offers a middle ground that would help restore competition while preserving revenue for distribution partners, argue Alissa Cooper, Fiona Scott Morton, and Nick Jacobson.
Antitrust and Competition

How To Secure an Epic Win for Consumer Choice on Android Phones

Fiona Scott Morton
For the first time in the history of mobile phones, Americans will be able to access a variety of app stores on Android phones, following game developer Epic Games’ legal victory over Google. Fiona Scott Morton and Nick Jacobson discuss how Google may try to undermine the court’s remedies to stifle competition and how both American and European regulators can respond to protect competition.
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Does the Case of Apple’s App Store Indicate It’s Time for an American Digital Markets Act?

Nick Jacobson
Nick Jacobson compares European and American enforcement to opening up the app store on Apple mobile phones, why European consumers and businesses are at an advantage, and if this advantage indicates that it is time for the United States to adopt legislation akin to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.

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