February 28, 2024
AI in Pricing Algorithms: Beware Falling Foul of Antitrust Rules...
The use of algorithms to determine prices has become ubiquitous: companies of all sizes are today able to access the data and technology required to analyze complex supply and demand...
February 28, 2024
Antitrust Risks Involving Algorithmic Pricing: The Brazilian Experience
This article deals with the Brazilian antitrust authority (the Administrative Council for Economic Defense – “CADE”) experience on the topic of algorithms and artificial intelligence, specifically in the analysis of...
February 25, 2024
Layoffs Target Remote Workers More Than In-Office Staff
For some workers, working from home no longer seems like an attractive option. As Bloomberg News noted in a recent report, the white-collar labor market has cooled, leading companies to scale back...
February 22, 2024
Enhancing Social-Media Regulation Through Transparency? Examining the New Transparency Regime...
Social-media platforms have taken on an important role in public communication, yet the precise nature of their influence remains largely opaque. Specifically, their content recommendation and moderation systems have drawn...
February 16, 2024
Data in The Digital Economy: The “Anti-Hero” of Antitrust or...
Today, data are not a passive by-product of economic activity but can be used as an input in the production process and by firms to make other significant business decisions....
February 16, 2024
Not All E-Commerce Businesses are Born Equal: Implications for Privacy...
This paper discusses privacy concerns and privacy regulation under two different e-commerce business models: a pure marketplace and a hybrid marketplace. In previous papers we have found that the nature...
February 16, 2024
The Economics of the Data-Driven Economy and the Demand for...
Increasing returns to scale in the heyday of industrialization in the late 19th century and early 20th century concentrated wealth and power, triggering demand for antitrust activism. A similar dynamic...
January 29, 2024
In Praise of Rules-Based Antitrust
The rule of reason is a useless analytical tool for determining whether a method of competition violates the antitrust laws. Comprehensive empirical reviews of antitrust cases have confirmed the stark...
January 24, 2024
Tapping Into the Future of Payments
As 2024 gets underway, digital transformation continues its march into increasingly nuanced areas of our everyday lives — and payment experiences are no exception. Technology-savvy millennials and Generation Z consumers...