In this article I argue that by increasing detection by means of international cooperation networks the competition authorities around the world should consider the hypothesis of progressively lowering the fines applied to multinational companies that violate antitrust laws

Portuguese Abstract: A estrutura da internet é composta por códigos, os quais regem as relações dentro da rede. Apesar de desenvolvida para não ser regulada, a internet não está vinculada ao parâmetro pelo qual se deixava reger quando da sua criação. A neutralidade de rede não é um...

Section 31 of Brazil’s new antitrust law (Law 12,529/2011 – BNAL) keeps the Brazilian tradition of extending antitrust scrutiny over any legal entity, including public undertakings (PUs). In this paper I discuss how PUs may be and have been used to indirectly regulate sectors in Brazil, how...

We learn that scientific progress is inherently good, that it has improved the living conditions of all humans and that the digital revolution is progressively helping level the playing field for all. But empirical evidence related to the effects of technological disruptions on the living...

The digital economy has been defined in the economic literature as one with near zero marginal cost, unmonetized services but also an escalating data flow. After a careful review of the most recent economic papers, we offer an alternative theory on the cost of privacy and data protection...

We learn that scientific progress is inherently good, that it has improved the living conditions of all humans and that the digital revolution is progressively helping level the playing field for all. But empirical evidence related to the effects of technological disruptions on the living...

In 2014 Stanford's Professor Mark Lemley wrote the avant-garde and provocative article IP in a World Without Scarcity. There he claimed that, as technology lowers the costs to produce and distribute new products, inventors need less IP protection in order to get stimulated to innovate. In this...

Unlike pay-tv companies, companies that operate over the top of the provision of Internet services can instantly operate in multiple countries without the grant of franchises by any particular country or setting foot anywhere outside a small office somewhere abroad -- probably in California. And...