Category: Competition

A tropical green/yellow Canary perched in Brazil, with a blue EU flag wing

Interoperability across the Atlantic

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Many thanks to my FGV compadre Nico Zingales and the other Brazilian/European colleagues who organised and spoke at the fascinating online conference, Interoperability in Digital Platforms and its Regulation: a Transatlantic Dialogue. Here are my speaking notes.

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Beeper as the universal inbox

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Sometimes, a tool is the best way to demonstrate to people just how powerful interoperability can be. And Beeper is very rapidly making the potential of messaging interoperability clear (and providing the universal inbox many people would like.)

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Digital competition law reform Down Under 🦘

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With my old friend and colleague Prof. Chris Marsden, we have just responded to the Australian Treasury’s consultation on creating a Digital Markets Act-like ex ante competition regulation regime. We have focused in particular on the possibilities of interoperability mandates, and on lessons learned so far from the EU’s experience with the DMA.

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Operating Systems need privacy-protective friend-finding services

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The NYT headline (Did Apple just kill social apps?) is over-the-top, but a reminder of the impact Big Tech firms can have on entire market sectors with their product decisions — and why the EU was right to legislate rules for fairness and contestability in the Digital Markets Act. Indeed, further interventions might be necessary, like mandating privacy-protective friend-connecting services.

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Super Mario publishes EU “competitiveness” report

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Part A of Mario Draghi’s report for the EU on “competitiveness” reform was published this morning. In one sentence, he concludes: “Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies.”

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