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...
Can Google Mobilize Its Users to Lobby Elected Officials?
Google has an 87 percent market share in the search business and the potential to mobilize more voters than the Democratic primaries, according to...
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...
The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?
In the first of three interrelated articles, transportation consultant Hubert Horan discusses Uber's "uncompetitive economics." There is no real innovation in the company's business...
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...
Bethany McLean's Weekend Reading List: Google’s Secrets, Banking, and Boeing
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
I think I've been reading too many...
Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem
In attempting to address legitimate privacy concerns, Google could be trying to monopolize surveillance.
As Big Tech’s leviathan wraps its tentacles around online markets,...
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.
Editor’s note: The...
If Journalists Want to Save Journalism, They Should Stop Asking Google for Money
A new report claims Google has been using its Google News Initiative to stage a “media takeover” and reveals the increasing influence of the...
