type here...

The Digital Economy

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 of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook’s Responses to Criticism Sound Too Good to Be True

David Carroll
The Facebook Papers show how Facebook’s relentlessly positive and defiant PR messaging is not plausible anymore. Hence, a rebrand. It sounds too good to be...
Antitrust and Competition

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

Philip Hanspach
If EU policymakers are truly concerned about restoring competitiveness to digital markets, they need to adjust their expectations when it comes to data access...
Antitrust and Competition

Tech Platforms and the Antitrust Duty to Deal

Erik Hovenkamp
Why is there a widespread view that existing American antitrust law is ill-equipped to address dominant platforms that exclude or discriminate against rivals? How...
Antitrust and Competition

Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop

Jens Frankenreiter
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the EU’s GDPR)...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power

Charlotte Slaiman
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook and Google....
Antitrust and Competition

A New Browser Extension Aims to Bring Transparency to Big Tech Funding

Jana Kasperkevic
As Congress prepares to debate a series of new antitrust bills​, the​ Big Tech Funding browser extension encourages lawmakers to be mindful of Big...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech’s Tightening Grip On Internet Speech

Gregory M. Dickinson
Social media platforms have so transformed American life that many now view online speech as a right of citizenship—a right to be protected against...
Antitrust and Competition

The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact

Michael Gofman
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

Cristina Caffarra
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital giants and...
1...91011...17Page 10 of 17

Latest news

View All

The publication of the Stigler Center at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

ProMarket is dedicated to discussing how competition tends to be subverted by special interests. The posts represent the opinions of their writers, not necessarily those of the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, or its faculty. For more information, please visit ProMarket Policy.