Committee on Communications entitled “The Internet: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”. The broad inquiry sought evidence to … explore how the regulation of the internet should be improved, and to consider whether online platforms which mediate … individuals' use of the internet have sufficient accountability and transparency, and whether they use fair and effective …

Sharing markets have been associated with several unintended consequences, and policymakers have formulated a range of … the affected listings. We provide evidence that not all listings experience same effects; listings owned by hosts who own … badges are not highly likely to exit the market than other listings. We discuss the ability of sharing platforms to exercise …

-term rental income and counter-factually compare it with long-term rental income to find that the ban, by decreasing the supply of … short-term housing, accelerated short-term rental income but did not have any direct effect on long-term rental income …

actors having a key role in the innovation process; hence, the dilemma of Internet intermediaries' liability and the re … therefore to deconstruct the European system of liability exemptions for Internet intermediaries and shed light upon its … initial premises as well as their implications are not made clearer at the policy level and if the legal rules meant to …

financial support of Meta Platforms Inc. in preparing this paper. All views expressed herein are the authors’ own and do not … significant funds to pay for Internet Service Provider (ISP) investments. In building its argument, the ETNO Report utilizes a … will require significant additional investment, and most of that investment will be provided by a complex array of for …

ensure ‘neutrality’ of internet access and that additional ‘device neutrality’ regulation is needed. We propose that the … regulation of the internet access value chain should aim at maintaining alternative routes for content to reach the consumer, and … suggest specific regulation at two logical internet access layers that relate to devices: the operating system layer and the …

The appropriate boundary between public and private regulation has long been of interest to law and economics scholars …-regulation has existed in financial markets. These studies suggest that too much market concentration and too much competition both …, the unique technical features of blockchain networks, and the way in which consumers and industry participants uniquely …

this test, no action is taken against them. "Bigness is not bad." This narrow view, inter alia, ignores two- and multisided … good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass … advertisers pay dearly for the ability to micro-focus on potential consumers of their products. Facebook and Google are used as …

This paper studies the relationship between sectorspecific ex ante regulation and antitrust enforcement in light of the … objectives highly derived from antitrust methodology: fairness (recital 33 - prevent imbalances between business users and … gatekeepers) and contestability (recital 32 - decrease entry barriers aswell as direct/indirect network effects and economies of …

Regulation and the GDPR. As such, this ambiguity calls into question the applicability of several decisive provisions of the GDPR …; first and foremost, the data protection by design approach and co-regulation instruments such as codes of conduct and … technological development and the dependency of users on the trustworthiness of electronic communication providers. Since third …