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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
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There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...
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The future of Germanys electricity regulation is still an open question. This paper deals with alternative …
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finds that despite the regulatory difficulties, the Internet is far from being a “regulation-free” space as there are … regulation. Most of them aim at protecting personal data and consumers more generally. In many cases generally applicable laws …
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make new regulations more economically efficient. First, before designing a regulation, regulators should define the … problem the regulation is supposed to address, which should include determining whether a widespread and systemic problem …
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An agency that fails to adequately consider the costs and benefits of its proposed regulatory changes increasingly places its rules at risk upon judicial review. Over the last couple of decades, courts have begun to expect agencies to use regulatory analysis techniques like cost-benefit analysis...
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The introduction of sector-specific regulation in the EU has fostered competition and innovation in the …
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(“competitive keyword advertising”). This Essay surveys the regulation of competitive keyword advertising by lawyers and concludes …
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Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...
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. Typically, new services are not subject to specific regulation, owing to the risk that this would discourage investment and … intervention to date, an equally valid response is to question the effectiveness of existing regulation. Both new entrants and … benefits for customers and reducing the need for regulation; to assess the impact of public policy on incentives to invest in …
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