We offer a simple analysis of a digital platform’s incentives to bias sales toward its own products and services. The analysis reveals that a digital platform is less biased - not more biased - in the promotion of its own products and services relative to online sellers that do not permit...

This month, three professors at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Administration released a new paper on the effects of network neutrality regulation using a stylized game-theoretic model (the "Florida Study"). This analytical investigation of network neutrality is...

This paper examines a recent study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Berkman Study was specifically requested by the Federal Communications Commission to “conduct an independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout...

I present a brief argument against both the use of the “monopoly” terminology for copyright and the related claim that copyright is incompatible with laissez-faire capitalism. To do so, I appeal to authority by looking at the writings of arguably the three most respected and vocal advocates...

In this Perspective, I review arguments that broadband providers may be anticompetitively imposing usage-based pricing to protect their profits from “core” services (e.g., voice, video, texting) against the proliferation of “over the top” services and, as such, new price regulation of...

Internet search results must be presented in a sequential manner—there is a first result, a second, a third, and so forth. For some platforms, an independent party may pay a fee for a higher ranking in the sequence. And when a platform offers its own products or services, the platform may...