With over a dozen bills pending in both the U.S. and E.U. to "solve" the privacy crisis, perhaps it's time to take a step back and ask some fundamental questions about information management in the age of big data. Why does "private" information evoke visceral policy responses? Is there a...

The European Directive on common rules for the internal market in electricity (2009/72/EC) requires all member states to 'ensure the implementation of intelligent metering systems' in order to foster a more active involvement of customers in the electricity market. Such intelligent metering...

This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...

After a decade of data misuse scandals involving public and private data collectors, the EU enacted its General Data Protection Regulation, which will dramatically change data collection and use practices worldwide. The poorly-thought out provisions of the GDPR, however, are certain to raise...

As the pace of technological-based disruption across industries accelerates, static models of regulatory analysis and decision-making become increasingly counter-productive. This article proposes a more pragmatic, "results-based regulation" framework and applies it to what has become the most...

Information in digital form transforms from a rivalrous to a non-rivalrous good, with profoundly different and counter-intuitive economic properties. This essay reviews five key features of digital goods: renewability, universality, magnetism, friction-free transfer, and vulnerability....

Some of the most significant transactions singled out recently for intensive federal review involve the communications industry. Unfortunately, communications providers face serious and potentially fatal problems of supply. Radio spectrum -- the chief input and most severe constraint on the...

In this paper we will examine the issue of ownership unbundling and forced divestiture remedies imposed in a series of recent competition law cases of the energy market - examined in other papers - in relation to the possible existence of a series of legal obstacles. These energy market...

Regulatory theorists have engaged in an interesting debate over the merits of “collaborative governance.” The term refers to those governance approaches in which regulators, industry and other stakeholders work together on drafting and enforcing rules. Proponents of collaborative governance...