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Antitrust and Competition

Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow
To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and...
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Antitrust and Competition

Is It Better to Address the Apple-Google App Store Duopoly Through Antitrust or Regulation? 

Giuseppe Colangelo, Oscar Borgogno
A new paper analyzes antitrust investigations and private litigation initiated against the Google and Apple app stores, exploring how the main anticompetitive...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy

Maurice E. Stucke
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Prevent Big Tech From Hindering Pathbreaking Innovation in the Metaverse

Cristian Santesteban
The transition to the metaverse presents a technological paradigm shift akin to the shift from desktop computers to smartphones, but today’s dominant...
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Antitrust and Competition

Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World

Filippo Lancieri, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption...
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Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Calls for DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter’s Recusal Are Baseless

Laurence H. Tribe
Kanter’s pre-existing commitment to aggressive antitrust enforcement, far from compromising the legitimacy of his actions, reinforces his qualifications for doing the job...
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Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

Adam Levitin
Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy...
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Antitrust and Competition

Frances Haugen’s Leaking of the Facebook Papers Will Hurt Decision-Making at Tech Companies

Matt Perault
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s assurances that Facebook will continue its research program, it seems almost inevitable that the company will narrow the scale and scope...
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Antitrust and Competition

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco, Tom Schmitz
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote...
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ESG & Corporate Governance

History Shows that Voluntary ESG Standards Lead to a More Focused ESG Disclosure

Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva, Aaron Yoon
In recent years, ESG reports have become more common for publicly traded companies. However, critics have found the information they provide to...
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Regulation

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

Renée Adams, Thomas Mosk
Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call?...
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Labor

Are There Really Gender Pay Differences in the CEO Labor Market?

Massimiliano Tani, Keiran Sharpe, Andrew Valentine
The gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in global labor markets, but this gap does not seem to apply to the...
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Monetary Policy

How Many Banks Are at Risk of Insolvency Right Now?

Amit Seru, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski
Given the recent banking turmoil and failure of SVB and Signature and issues in First Republic, it is important to understand the...
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Misinformation

The Challenges of Regulating Disinformation

Federico Vaccari
In response to rising concerns about political disinformation, governments have introduced a slew of interventions. Federico Vaccari warns in new research that...
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Development

India’s Evolving Industrial Policy Is Critical for Realizing Its Development Vision

Nagesh Kumar
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s...
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