{"id":613,"date":"2019-02-26T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cigs-inet.org\/?p=613"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:06:21","slug":"center-for-innovation-growth-and-discusses-antitrust-policy-and-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cigs-inet.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/26\/center-for-innovation-growth-and-discusses-antitrust-policy-and-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Innovation, Growth and discusses Antitrust Policy and Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a year of convening smaller targeted meetings in Silicon Valley, INET\u2019s Center for Innovation, Growth and Society<\/a> held its first conference on February 5th, 2019.  Entitled \u201cToo Deep to Fail: Big Tech and Civil Society\u201d the gathering brought together economists, legal scholars and tech leaders to explore increasing levels of economic concentration, in particular in the tech sector.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured, from left to right: Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan,\u00a0Stanford University economics professor\u00a0Anat\u00a0Admati, and\u00a0Stanford University political science professor Margaret Levi<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith new concerns over technology platforms arising at an\nincreasing rate, it is essential that technologists, regulators, legal scholars,\neconomists, and consumer advocates have an impartial place to work\nconstructively towards better solutions. CIGS and INET were happy that we were\nin a position to meet that need and the response of the various communities was\nbetter than we could have hoped for\u201d said Pia Malaney the Center\u2019s director who\nled the meeting for CIGS\/INET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising levels of inequality, threats to free speech and even\nthe political fabric of our democracy have been laid at the doorstep of tech giants\nlike Facebook, Google, and Amazon. While there have been increasing calls for\nregulation it has been pointed out by legal scholar Lina Khan that traditional\nantitrust regulations are focused on competition as seen in traditional\nmarkets, using the standard of \u201cprice competition\u201d to determine monopoly\npower.  What does this mean when the\n\u201cprice\u201d on some of these products, e.g. search, are set at zero but the\nanti-competitive practices take place in a different area?  There is a clear need to rethink our\nregulatory structures to address the changing nature of economic concentration\nin firms that span different markets, where monopoly power may one product may\nbe used to drive traffic to a different product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference highlighted the need for collaboration between Society, Tech, Academia and Regulation (STAR) in order to effectively address the social, political and economic ramifications of economic concentration in an industry often characterized by increasing returns to scale.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a year of convening smaller targeted meetings in Silicon Valley, INET\u2019s Center for Innovation, Growth and Society held its first conference on February 5th, 2019.  Entitled \u201cToo Deep to Fail: Big Tech and Civil Society\u201d the gathering brought together economists, legal scholars and tech leaders to explore increasing levels of economic concentration, in particular … <\/p>\n

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