June 24, 2020
Hybrid Differentiation and Competition Beyond Markets
Hybrid differentiation occurs when a platform discriminates among businesses in a related market in which it is not active itself with the aim to increase or maintain its competitive advantage...
June 23, 2020
German Court Orders Facebook To Stop Data Collection
The German Federal Court has ordered Facebook to comply with an order from the country’s antitrust regulator and stop data collection of users in the country, Reuters reported Tuesday (June...
June 12, 2020
Measurement of Market Concentration Faced by Labor Pools: Theory and...
No-poaching clauses in franchise agreements recently have attracted widespread attention from the press, state Attorneys General, private litigations, and Congress. The concern is that franchise no-poaching clauses may increase monopsony...
April 26, 2020
Federal Court OKs $5B Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Settlement
A federal judge on Thursday, April 23, approved the US$5 billion Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine that Facebook agreed to pay last year over privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge...
March 09, 2020
Facebook Sued By Australian privacy Regulator
The Australian privacy regulator has launched legal action against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw millions of people’s profiles allegedly mined for information, reported CNBC. ...
February 16, 2020
Zuckerberg Urges Tighter Online Regulation
Mark Zuckerberg said Saturday, February 15, that social media companies need more guidance and regulation from governments in order to tackle the growing problem of harmful online content, reported CNBC....
February 14, 2020
The Nexus Between Innovation and Competition: Will the New Digital...
There has been a long and extended empirical literature examining the impact of competition on innovation. I argue that as innovation is the way firms compete, this question does not...
February 14, 2020
Platforms, Disruptive Innovation, and Competition on the Market
The current academic and policy initiatives to address competition concerns arising from digital platforms rely on a model of competition for the market. That model is presented as a better...
February 14, 2020
Disruptors and Discontented Incumbents: An Antitrust Story Retold
Disruptors in new economy industries typically enter markets that have yet to be delineated. They are the undertakings pushing the industry to change services, products, technology, customs and uses in...