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Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
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failures both on-platform, among merchants, and off-platform, among competing platforms. This paper develops two product … introduces a new data right for platform users, the in-situ data right, which is associated with positive welfare gains. By …
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Tech Reg refers to the regulation of internet-connected digital businesses and the discipline that studies the when, and how, to do that. It covers areas as diverse as big tech, crypto, fintech, gig, misinformation, privacy, and telemedicine. It will expand over the coming decades as the digital...
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firms competing for consumer attention and advertiser dollars. The last two decades of online platform competition … model innovations, and cross-platform rivalry. The palpable threat of displacement prevents online platforms from taking … their customers for granted. The history of online platform competition also provides empirical refutation of the …
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new data right for platform users, the in-situ data right, which is associated with positive welfare gains. By …
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Despite the rapidly growing volume and economic importance of data in the digital economy, the legal framework for data ownership, access and trade remains incompletely defined in the EU and elsewhere. De facto data ownership dominates and often leads to fragmentation or anti-commons problems in...
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platform governance regimes — this paper considers important aspects of analyzing vertical restraints in the digital world. It … then considers several applications involving platform rules, exclusive contracts, and MFNs for digital intermediaries …
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search engines and search rankings, data protection and the use of personal data in platforms, and platform liabilities …
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