April 04, 2024
‘Swarm’ Attacks Challenge Traditional Fraud Defenses
For as long as hard-earned money has existed, criminals have been trying to take it. And as money itself has evolved across an increasingly digital landscape, bad actors have followed...
April 04, 2024
AI and Connected Vehicles Create New Road Maps for Smart...
Death, taxes — and traffic — are some of life’s unavoidable certainties. But in the quest for smarter, more efficient urban environments, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to pave the...
February 29, 2024
Change Healthcare Hack Leaves Smaller Providers Low on Cash
U.S. health providers are facing financial catastrophe following a week-long cyberattack on Change Healthcare. The ransomware attack has even left some smaller providers running short on cash, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 29). Larger...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms and Antitrust Enforcement: Sandboxes to the Rescue?
Pricing algorithms make it easier for businesses dynamically to respond to market tendencies and set prices in an instant manner. In doing so, they can contribute to more efficient price...
February 28, 2024
AI, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and their application to pricing decisions have led to concerns that such innovation could lead to higher prices for consumers. In particular, there...
February 28, 2024
Competition & Collusion in a World of Algorithmic Pricing: Antitrust...
Across many industries, businesses rely on algorithmic pricing systems that analyze large volumes of market data to recommend or set prices. For many years, courts have assessed the effects of...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms in Antitrust’s Sights?
Pricing algorithms have captured antitrust scholars’ attention for a decade now. A key problem: Whether antitrust doctrine could adequately handle the situation where several competing firms independently delegate their market...
February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms — What Role for Regulation?
The rapid spread of pricing algorithms in e-commerce markets has raised alarms about their potential for anticompetitive abuse. Enforcers and policy-makers have been concerned for some time about the possibility...
February 28, 2024
Competitive Implications of Pricing Algorithms Under the United States Antitrust...
Pricing algorithms increasingly are being used by various businesses, in various industries, to achieve various goals. An accurate understanding of the competition issues that may be raised by businesses’ use...