Digital platforms
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)
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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...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)
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The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
Roger McNamee: “I Think You Can Make a Legitimate Case that Facebook Has Become Parasitic”
In an interview with ProMarket, Facebook early investor Roger McNamee talks about his efforts to get Facebook to fix its business model and the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 10-March 17)
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A federal appeals court voided the Department of Labor's “fiduciary rule,” an Obama-era rule that instructed financial professionals like...
The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration
The invitation-only conference will bring together economists, law scholars, intellectuals, venture capitalists, and businesspeople to debate how to promote competition in a world of...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)
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ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 24–March 3)
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Italy’s elections are on Sunday, and with the polls being inconclusive and the reemergence of former PM Silvio Berlusconi...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)
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Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
