For many years now, the Internet seemed to be open, free, and competitive. Internet entrepreneurialism was high, financing easy, entry barriers low. But now, in the wake of the Internet's bursting bubble, the reality of that competitiveness deserves a second look: Is the Internet still as open...

The 2015 FCC decision on Net Neutrality and the debate over ICANN reform raise the question about the future structure of the Internet. The paper concludes that the centrifugalism due to fundamental economics and national priorities will transform the current system into a loose and partly...

The study tries to respond to a question of great current policy interest: have American media become more concentrated due to various M&As and shake-outs, or have then become less concentrated due to Internet and other new types of media entry? The study analyzes 100 different media and...

This paper would report the conclusion of a multi-year, 30-country project on media concentration around the world. Authors in these countries have followed a common methodology and developed extensive analyses of their countries, for 13 media/telecom/internet industries. This was unprecedented...

Around the world, media ownership and concentration is an issue of considerable public interest. When the FCC in America tried to change the rules, it got over a million letters, both from the activist left and the activist right. Noted academics weighed in. Lawrence Lessig argued that 'within a...