There is a lot - *a lot* - of hyperbole about the tech giants and the need, or lack of need, for regulation. And a lot of attempts to manipulate the debate. (1/30)

Can we have speakers, discussants, and session chairs disclose conflicts of interest at this year's European Finance Association conference please? RT if you think we should.

Great thread as usual Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK on privacy & competition👇 The “integrationist” stance in the (good) Douglas/Yale article is reductive though: view here is #integration of data protection in antitrust does *NOT* just mean AT should care when “privacy is a dimension of quality” 1/

Virtual seminars are a bright spot amid the endless frustrations of the pandemic, giving ALL researchers including those with mobility issues & time/budget constraints access to the frontiers of research. #VIDEseminar, one of the best, is returning w/ new speakers this fall!

When I set up #CEPR #Research_Policy_Network” with Gregory Crawford et al, disclosure policy was clear. Worth adopting broadly at economic/policy conferences? cepr.org/content/cepr-r…. /end Tommaso Valletti Tomaso Duso Monika Schnitzer🇺🇦🇪🇺

“What are we regulating FOR”?  Are current #digital_regulation proposals (#DMA) capable of moving us towards more #digital_diversity & choice & real competition? Not quite. New paper today CEPR VoxEU 1/ voxeu.org/content/what-a…

Excellent. A new #progressive_axis is formed #G7 meetings in London btw UK & US⁦. @linakhanFTC⁩ & Jonathan Kanter ⁦Antitrust Division⁩, joint statement w Andrea Coscelli ⁦Competition & Markets Authority⁩. Don’t always need new laws, need to enforce. #leadership ftc.gov/news-events/pr…

Super thread summarizing the discussion at our CEPR/MaCCIcompetition #Competition_RPN event last week:

Agree! I also couldn't be more pleased to welcome Tommaso Valletti and Rod to help identify (and hopefully enlighten) the many areas where connecting academics to policymakers may foster both better research and better policy! #Competition_RPN

It is worrying that Margrethe Vestager, on stage right now at #EDPSconf2022, is holding up the Google Fitbit merger decision as an exemplar of thorough consideration of data.

I couldn't agree more!

Working on the IO or macro or labor of market power? Consider submitting your work/coming to the Oct 6-7 UZH Econ Market Power Workshop. Keynotes from Nathan Miller and Tommaso Valletti. Submission deadline today! (I'm late as ever😳) sites.google.com/view/marketpow…

“The Trial of the Century” (#USvsGoogle) reaches mid-point (5 weeks) but you wouldn’t know if not for the dedicated specialist press & X-ers on site. Much interesting testimony & docs but mostly out of sight. Join for insight from court witnesses, Tuesday 530pm GMT, 1230pm ET ⬇️

This two-parter is brilliant, and far beyond a narrow IO/antitrust topic. Encompassing the change in the Zeitgeist on industrial policy, trade, even macro, and the role antitrust might play in this change...

Zalando orange :)

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