This report provides an overview of the relevant economic research literature on platforms or multi-sided online markets. It discusses platforms from a regulatory policy angle, including potential market failures in platforms, the extent of self-regulation and possible regulatory responses...

The recent revelations of intensive mass surveillance led by the United States of America (USA) along with the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and many other established democracies have moved the tectonic plate of the internet regulatory structure. Lacks of efficiency of the current...