Digital platforms
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 7–April 14)
This week in political economy.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered hundreds of questions about the company’s business model and mishandling of data and privacy...
The Unprecedented Power of Digital Platforms to Control Opinions and Votes
In Chapter 6 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook, a research psychologist who, with an associate, discovered the search engine manipulation effect (SEME)...
Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies
In Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
Two Views of Exclusion: Why the European Union and the United States Diverged on Google
What accounts for the difference in contemporary EU and US antitrust doctrine? Examined closely, says William E. Kovacic in Chapter 4 of our forthcoming...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)
This week in political economy.
Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?
What are the bases of the digital platforms’ power? In Chapter 3 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration ebook in advance of this month’s...
Does the European Union Use Its Antitrust Power for Protectionism?
The European Commission’s 2001 decision to stop GE’s acquisition of Honeywell might be the most famous of its several decisions to interfere in mergers...
A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms
In Chapter 2 of the ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, forthcoming ahead of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference on April 19 and 20, Justus...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 24-March 31)
This week in political economy.
Still mired in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s terrible month became worse this week after BuzzFeed published a 2016...
eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
