Internet search results must be presented in a sequential manner—there is a first result, a second, a third, and so forth. For some platforms, an independent party may pay a fee for a higher ranking in the sequence. And when a platform offers its own products or services, the platform may...

This Article seeks to bridge free speech jurisprudence and information economics in an effort to provide a novel view into mechanisms to tackle misinformation. Bridging these schools of thought offers two steps forward. The first step reexamines the deontological free speech path that has led...

How should a platform or a society address the fake news problem? The spread of misinformation is ancient, complex, yet ubiquitous in elections, vaccination campaigns, and global climate policy debates. After examining key attributes of “fake news” and of current solutions, this Article...

Competition policy and enforcement need to be able to keep pace with business models that have emerged in the digital age. Fittingly, Canada is in the midst of a review of its Competition Act that is addressing this question.A key goal of any reform should be to deter anti-competitive practices...

The recent approval of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been a milestone in the regulation of large internet platforms operating in the new digital ecosystems. Faced with the supposed ineffectiveness and slowness of the tools traditionally used to limit the power and harmful practices for the...

This paper assesses a common view that has surfaced recently in a growing number of Government, industry and academic studies, that first claims streaming media services are likely to have adversely affected competition in media markets (both screen and music), and second recommends additional...

We analyze mixed bundling in two-sided markets where installed base effects are present and find that the pricing structure deviates from traditional bundling as well as the standard two-sided markets literature - we determine prices on both sides fall with bundling. Mixed bundling acts as a...

High-speed Internet, or broadband, access is an essential infrastructure that has been proven to stimulate competition, productivity and growth and it is considered the engine of the so called knowledge-information economy. In this paper, we first provide a technical survey of the standard...

Digital Technologies make it possible to decentrally settle institutional frameworks based on self-implementation of exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of IPRs and collective rules setting of this kind agents...

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...