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Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Cicilline’s Nondiscrimination Bill Would Offer a Lifeline to Independent App Developers

Hal Singer
Contrary to the naysayers, the American Choice and Innovation Online Act won’t result in naked iPhones or iPhones cluttered with hundreds of preinstalled apps. On...
Antitrust and Competition

The House’s Recent Spate of Antitrust Bills Would Change Big Tech as We Know It

Randy Picker
If enacted, the five bills that were introduced in the House this month would represent the most dramatic statutory changes to US antitrust law...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Tame the Tech Giants: Reverse the Burden of Proof in Merger Reviews

Tommaso Valletti
Most tech acquisitions are approved without a hitch, despite growing evidence that they bring little benefit, because regulators are waging an uphill battle to...
Antitrust and Competition

Congress’ Antitrust War On China and American Consumers

Herbert Hovenkamp
The latest bills currently debated in Congress regarding Big Tech—the US Innovation and Competition Act that was passed by the Senate this month and...
Big Tech

The Digital Society: “We Live in a World Obsessed With Cost Cutting”

Jana Kasperkevic
In an interview about his new book, The Inglorious Years, economist Daniel Cohen explores the emergence of the digital society and its never-ending pursuit...
Big Tech

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts and criticism...
Antitrust and Competition

The Biggest Problem Facing America: Misinformation-At-Scale

Joan Donovan
Technology companies must put community safety and privacy at the core of their business model, ensure that advertising technology is utilized responsibly, and quickly...
Antitrust and Competition

Identifying the Market In the Facebook Antitrust Case

Herbert Hovenkamp
Facebook can be a monopolist over a cluster of noncompeting products that do not fit the standard economic definition of a “market.” The key...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Big Tech Companies Should Engage With Academia, and Why They Don’t

Tommaso Valletti
“Academic engagement” of a Big Tech firm: that job should exist. But it has not happened, and it probably won’t happen, unless we get...
Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

Michael G Jacobides
Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited. As such,...
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