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Year
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Nascent Competitors
Large incumbent firms may take steps to eliminate innovative nascent competitors, either by merger or by excluding them from the market.
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C. Scott Hemphill, Tim Wu |
2020 |
Digital Platforms and Antitrust
Digital platforms create value for users and make markets more efficient. But some platforms gain excessive market power. Antitrust agencies and regulators must adopt new methods to preserve the benefits of platforms but reduce harm.
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Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall Van Alstyne |
2020 |
Competing in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables the rapid growth of a new type of firm. Many traditional firms now compete directly with AI-based firms. Business strategies and competitive processes are changing.
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Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani |
2020 |
Privacy Regulation and Innovation Policy
Some claim that privacy regulation threatens innovation, but regulation is appropriate to correct market failures. Privacy regulation could help align markets and ensure that innovation is consistent with social values.
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Katherine Strandburg, Yafit Lev-Aretz |
2020 |
The Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (PORT-IA): Assessing Competition, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Considerations
One key legal question is whether data should move from A to B, or be prevented from moving from A to B. Requiring the transfer of data can be harmful in some ways and beneficial in others.
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Peter Swire |
2020 |
The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law
The European Union (EU) and the United States differ in their approach to competition law. Worldwide, more nations emulate the EU's approach.
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Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, Alexander Weaver, Katerina Linos |
2019 |
Platforms, Power and the Antitrust Challenge: A Modest Proposal to Narrow the U.S.–Europe Divide
Tech platforms like Facebook and Google dominate the new economy. European Union (EU) authorities are more aggressive than those in the United States in using competition law against tech platforms.
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Eleanor Fox |
2019 |
The Economics of Markets and Platforms
Some economic models omit intermediaries, entrepreneurs, and other key factors in dynamic markets. The study of platforms like eBay and Etsy leads to the development of more realistic economic models.
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Daniel Spulber |
2019 |
Privacy’s Constitutional Moment and the Limits of Data Protection
The United States Congress must decide whether to enact a national privacy law like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But GDPR-style rules fail to protect against many harms of data overuse.
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Neil Richards, Woodrow Hartzog |
2019 |
Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization
Deployment of artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems will affect the size and choices of firms that provide or use AI services. Economists consider the effects of AI on pricing, firm size, competition, privacy, and security.
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Hal R. Varian |
2019 |