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Antitrust and Competition

How to Regulate Digital Platforms: A Database

Filippo Maria Lancieri
Over the past couple of years, many antitrust authorities commissioned expert groups or released working papers addressing different areas of digital policy. For the...
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Antitrust and Competition

“We Were Naïve,” Says FCC Chair Who Oversaw the Creation of Section 230

Guy Rolnik, Eytan Avriel
In an interview with ProMarket, former FCC chair Reed Hundt spoke about antitrust, Big Tech platforms, the future of the 1996 provision that provided legal protection...
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Academic Capture

Presenting: The Stigler Center’s Report on How to Rein in Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center presents its policy suggestions on how to address the political and economic issues raised by the market power of tech platforms...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect Competition and Consumers in Digital Markets

ProMarket writers
While some markets may self-correct, rapid self-correction in markets dominated by large digital platforms is unlikely. The economy and market structure subcommittee of the...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Address the Privacy and Security Challenges Posed by Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The idiosyncrasies of the American approach to regulation have left the world’s largest economy ill-equipped to protect consumers and guide firms when it comes...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect the News Media in the Age of Digital Platforms

ProMarket writers
Digital platforms present a new formidable threat to the news media that market forces will not correct if left to their own devices. The...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Mitigate the Political Impacts of Social Media and Digital Platform Concentration

ProMarket writers
Ahead of its annual conference on Digital Platforms, Markets and Democracy, the Stigler Center formed a committee to produce independent white papers that will...
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Antitrust and Competition

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Asher Schechter
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Four...
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Antitrust and Competition

Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?

Asher Schechter
Sen. Mark Warner’s proposals to regulate social media platforms are by far the most ambitious to come from Congress. We gathered three experts to...
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Antitrust and Competition

Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History

Randy Picker
Chapter 7 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook looks at some critical junctures in the history of competition between Big Tech companies...
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Antitrust and Competition

“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today

Tommaso Valletti
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it...
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Antitrust and Competition

Paul Romer: “If You Think Moderation is Censorship, You’ve Got a Competition Problem”

Jana Kasperkevic
During a Stigler Center keynote webinar, Nobel laureate Paul Romer discussed concentration problems in the US and possible solutions, including a “pigouvian”...
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Digital Platforms

The “Next Frontier of Propaganda”: Micro-Influencers are Paid to Spread Political Messages, Disinformation

Jana Kasperkevic
Online influencers aren’t in the business of promoting just products anymore. New research finds that micro-influencers are increasingly used to spread political...
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Antitrust and Competition

Digital Markets Act: Policy Choices and Conditions for Success

Alexandre de Streel
Last month, the European Commission introduced an ambitious new set of rules for digital platforms, the Digital Markets Act. Here is what...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Silent Coup

Luigi Zingales
President Donald Trump's seditious actions are exposing the political power that Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook enjoy. Banning him from their...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Will the Digital Markets Act Regulate Big Tech?

Cristina Caffarra, Fiona Scott Morton
While the recently introduced Digital Markets Act rules might change prior to final approval, there is a lot to consider already. What...
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Coronavirus

Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows.
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