Google’s and Facebook’s Grip on Digital Advertising Markets
Since July 2019, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority has been conducting an extensive investigation of the digital advertising market. In its preliminary report on...
The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free
The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
How to Regulate Digital Platforms: A Database
Over the past couple of years, many antitrust authorities commissioned expert groups or released working papers addressing different areas of digital policy. For the...
A Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Facebook, One Third Supports Breaking It Up
The annual Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 73 percent of Americans disapprove of Facebook’s policy not to fact-check political ads....
How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Helps the Chinese Government Control Social Media
A new study on three major social networks in China finds that tolerating small, relatively free platforms helps the Chinese government maintain sufficiently high...
How to Change Section 230 and Make Digital Platforms More Accountable
If elected, former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to "revoke immediately" the 1996 provision that gave tech companies like...
Should We Let Facebook Decide the Next President of the United States?
Facebook admitted that only a binding regulation on political ads could prevent private corporations from influencing the outcome of US presidential elections. Without such...
The Best Political Economy Books of 2019
A history of American antimonopoly, the case against Big Tech, and how Europe got better than the US at free markets: here are (in no...
High-Priced Acquisitions of Tech Startups Do Not Always Stimulate More Innovation
What seems to be a big reward to innovation ultimately reduces the incentive to innovate, argues a new Stigler Center working paper by Krishna...
The Intersection of Privacy, Data, and Competition
The issues around technology, data, and privacy are complicated, but solving them is less tricky that many companies would have Congress believe.
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