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Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are … threat to social order and democracy posed by Facebook and Google, as well as others in the internet space. Facebook, and … on the internet. Indeed, they make money off the proliferation of this misinformation. For example, even by its own …
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Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are … threat to social order and democracy posed by Facebook and Google, as well as others in the internet space. Facebook, and … on the internet. Indeed, they make money off the proliferation of this misinformation. For example, even by its own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012003
positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been … Google are two-sided markets, their economic rents are "hidden" from the public (and, apparently, from the antitrust … examines the potential for antitrust cases against Facebook and Google as a response to their perceived threats to consumer …
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We examine a deregulation of German pharmacists to assess its effects on retail and labor markets. Our theoretical model suggests that firms with high managerial efficiency open more stores per firm and have higher labor demand due to the reform. We find a sharp persistent increase in entry...
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networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling prices of broadband fixed and mobile … digital advertising and one-third of total advertising. Nevertheless, no serious antitrust case or legislation has addressed … this monopoly power. This paper examines the antitrust cases against Facebook and Google. In this paper, we attempt to go …
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Zero rating and sponsored data have recently been introduced as new tariff options in mobile telecommunications markets …. Both practices exempt data traffic of specific Internet services from an Internet user's download limit and thus allow for … several countries. Based on a model of a monopolistic Internet access provider and two advertising-financed content providers …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been … ignored by this narrow criterion. This analysis indicates that antitrust action is long overdue after considering two …
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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive … internet giants are multisided markets (MSM); their economic rents are "hidden" from the public. On the user-side of the market … rents are not so obvious. This paper addresses the monopolistic/monopsony aspect of the internet giants. In the singlesided …
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This paper focuses on the evaluation of an incentive program for firms implemented in southern Italy during the last decade. In the framework of the policy instruments aimed to reduce territorial disparities, and to support local development, territorial integrated projects (TIP) constituted a...
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This paper aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the public policies of Science, Technology and Innovation offered by the Brazilian government, more specifically, the Innovation Act (Lei de Inovação), in order to verify the effectiveness and impact of this measure for development, in the...
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