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Digital Platforms

Antitrust and Competition

The Unprecedented Power of Digital Platforms to Control Opinions and Votes

Robert Epstein
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)...
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Antitrust and Competition

Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies

Sandra Matz, Moran Cerf, Guy Rolnik
In Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
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Antitrust and Competition

Two Views of Exclusion: Why the European Union and the United States Diverged on Google

William E. Kovacic
What accounts for the difference in contemporary EU and US antitrust doctrine? Examined closely, says William E. Kovacic in Chapter 4 of our forthcoming...
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Antitrust and Competition

What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?

Lina M. Khan
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...
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Antitrust and Competition

Does the European Union Use Its Antitrust Power for Protectionism?

Anu Bradford, Robert Jackson, Jonathan Zytnick
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...
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Antitrust and Competition

A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms

Justus Haucap
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...
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Antitrust and Competition

eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential

Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
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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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