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How Federal Surveys Quietly Reshape Local Infrastructure Spending
In new research, Matthias Breuer and Qingkai Dong examine how federal data collection can influence local spending. They examine road surveys, showing that roads included in federal samples are more likely to be funded and those that are not often face funding and safety declines, reflecting a need for improved measurement systems.
How Data Secrecy and Privatization Are Gutting American Democracy
As private corporations gain unprecedented control over public data, Americans are losing access to the information that underpins democracy and critical aspects of their lives. D. Victoria Baranetsky argues that this rise of secrecy—driven by the rising value of data and government privatization—demands not just transparency, but a bold commitment to anti-secrecy as essential to democratic governance.
The Antitrust Problem of Zero-Rating
Dominant web services will often incentivize mobile phone carriers to provide their customers access to their services at zero cost to the customer’s data plan, also known as zero-rating. In new research, Bruno Renzetti argues that this behavior can be a form of exclusionary conduct designed to solidify the monopolies of dominant online platforms and services that ultimately harms consumers even if it appears to lower their data costs at first glance.
Data is Abundant But is it Accessible to Researchers?
Despite the wide availability of data, ensuring independent access to data sources has never been more crucial. How can researchers engage in data sharing...
The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused to share...
New Data Shows the Rise of Corporate Concentration in the US in the Past 100 Years
New research observing 100 years of concentration in economic activities and investment in research and development shows that the dominance of large businesses has...
Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more competition as...
How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power
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....
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital giants and...
No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data
Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance. A new...
