Posted by Social Science Research Network Digital Markets, Mobile Payments Systems and Development – Competition Policy Implications in Developing Countries in Light of the EU Experience By Jörg Hoffmann, Mor Bakhoum & Francisco Beneke The digitization of economic activity has important socio-economic development implications and at the same time creates challenges for antitrust analysis. These implications and challenges […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Data Accumulation and the Privacy-Antitrust Interface: Insights from the Facebook Case for the EU and the US By Giuseppe Colangelo & Mariateresa Maggiolino The emergence of multi-sided media platforms occurred in parallel with the success of business models that revolve around the collection and use of personal data, generating […]
Posted by Reuters 7th Circuit confronts antitrust in the age of Big Data By Alison Frankel On Monday, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction that required competing car dealership software management companies to allow a data scraper to access information from consenting customers. The data scraper, Authenticom, had accused the […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Obfuscation and Shrouding with Network Effects – The Facebook/WhatsApp Case By Georg Clemens (Compass Lexecon) & Mutlu Özcan (Chair of Applied Microeconomics) Abstract: This article analyses switching behavior in messaging service markets. WhatsApp’s decision to start forwarding customer data to Facebook outraged its customer base. Our model […]
A report by a study group at Japan’s Fair Trade Commission concludes that the collection and use of big data should be subject to the country’s anti-monopoly act. In recent years, it is expected that knowledge derived from ‘big data’ analysis will inspire further innovation across the existing industrial boundaries in the context of the […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Big Data as a Misleading Facility By Giuseppe Colangelo (LUISS Guido Carli) & Mariateresa Maggiolino (Bocconi University) Abstract: Currently, many technologies translate both empirical phenomena and human interactions into digital data. Accordingly, when processed and analysed, these data become sources of pieces of information, correlations, predictions and meanings […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Price Discrimination as a Violation of the Sherman Act By Ramsi Woodcock (Georgia State University) Abstract: The advance of the information age promises to make it possible for producers to charge consumers tailored prices that extract maximum value from them, a practice known as perfect price discrimination. I […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network How Your Digital Helper May Undermine Your Welfare, and Our Democracy By Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee) & Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford) Abstract: “All you need to do is say,” a recent article proclaimed, “’I want a beer’ and Alexa will oblige. The future is […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Data Protection in Attention Markets: Protecting Privacy Through Competition? By Giuseppe Colangelo (LUISS Guido Carli) & Mariateresa Maggiolino (Bocconi University) Abstract: Every day, digital platforms generate, gather, store and analyze a huge amount of data, personal data included: these data can be elaborated to cluster individuals and offer […]
Posted by Social Science Research Network Defining ‘big data’ in antitrust By Xavier Boutin & Georg Clemens (Compass Lexecon) Abstract: This paper provides a definition of “big data” in antitrust. While big data has become an important topic in the antitrust literature and in competition policy practice, no clear-cut definition of big data […]
