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Would Europe’s Digital Markets Act Work in America?

Dec 9, 2024 | promarket.org | Giovanna Massarotto

Some American policymakers have sought to adopt and adapt aspects and principles of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act in an effort to regulate Big Tech giants. In new research, Giovanna Massarotto writes that the principle ideologies driving American and European antitrust, and the broader political economy, renders the DMA and its principles too foreign for American adoption. United States antitrust law is at a crossroads. Technology is disrupting every aspect of our economy and society.
Defining AI Collusion Depends on Consumer Harm and Algorithms

Oct 3, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Giovanna Massarotto

The use of artificial intelligence has been under the microscope, from its role in misinformation campaigns to its potential to violate antitrust law. Companies are increasingly using algorithms to determine their prices at scale, which can cause consumers to pay higher prices for goods. The key to determining whether AI algorithms signal illegal collusion lies in weighing consumer harm against improved efficiencies resulting from their use.
Say good-bye to your iPhone? Maybe, if antitrust regulators have their way

Apr 24, 2024 | thehill.com | Giovanna Massarotto

Ten years ago, there was little public interest in antitrust law. Over the last four years, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have sued Google (twice), Amazon and Facebook (Meta) for monopolizing critical digital markets, including our beloved Google Search and Amazon online superstore. The latest target is Apple’s legendary iPhone. The judicial battle against Apple’s supposed smartphone monopoly officially started on March 21, 2024.
Driving Innovation with Antitrust

Apr 10, 2024 | promarket.org | Giovanna Massarotto

Giovanna Massarotto writes that antitrust actions against major technology companies like AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft over the past century, though imperfect, have positively impacted innovation and competition in the computer industry by restricting anticompetitive behavior while allowing breakthrough technologies to flourish through carefully crafted remedies. This stands in contrast with Europe, which has seen less homegrown innovation from its technology companies.
Antitrust Needs To Draw on Computer Science To Detect Algorithmic Collusion

Jan 23, 2024 | promarket.org | Giovanna Massarotto

In new research, Giovanna Massarotto explains how collusion manifests differently in the digital economy. She argues that antitrust regulators, scholars, and courts need to incorporate lessons from computer science to update how they monitor markets and identify algorithmic collusion. Enforcing competition principles in computer-run digital markets became critical in 2023. This past year saw the widespread use of algorithms, including artificial intelligence, in many facets of our lives.
What is Algorithmic Bias and Why Antitrust Agencies Should Care?

Jun 22, 2023 | competitionpolicyinternational.com | Giovanna Massarotto

Before asking whether algorithmic bias is a competition concern, we might need to understand what bias is and how it is exhibited in algorithms. Bias in people is well known and likely inevitable, raising the question of what we can do if algorithms learn to be bias. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) algorithms are those that can raise issues of bias as they learn from past data, and we might have to deal with historical bias situations or unrepresentative or insufficient data.
What is Algorithmic Bias and Why Antitrust Agencies Should Care?

Jun 22, 2023 | pymnts.com | Giovanna Massarotto

Before asking whether algorithmic bias is a competition concern, we might need to understand what bias is and how it is exhibited in algorithms. Bias in people is well known and likely inevitable, raising the question of what we can do if algorithms learn to be bias. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) algorithms are those that can raise issues of bias as they learn from past data, and we might have to deal with historical bias situations or unrepresentative or insufficient data. AI algorithms ar...
Can Computational Tools Revitalize Antitrust Enforcement?

Jun 15, 2023 | competitionpolicyinternational.com | Giovanna Massarotto |CPI Blogs

By: Giovanna Massarotto (ProMarket)Antitrust emerged during a period when technological progress was disrupting markets. The advent of railroads in the United States during the nineteenth century revolutionized business operations, ushering in a new era of competition on a larger scale. Likewise, the telegraph, radio, and telephone transformed human interactions.
Can Computational Tools Revitalize Antitrust Enforcement?

Jun 13, 2023 | promarket.org | Giovanna Massarotto

Pricing algorithms have shown the potential to both help and harm competition. Our new series, Computational Antitrust, explores how algorithms can abet tacit collusion, allowing competitors to set prices at anticompetitive levels without active human assistance.
What’s Next for Crypto?

Apr 17, 2023 | law.upenn.edu | Giovanna Massarotto

CTIC Academic Fellow Giovanna Massarotto outlines the possible routes of cryptocurrency’s future. With cryptocurrency companies increasingly filing for bankruptcy following FTX’s path or significantly reducing their size and investments, the future of crypto is uncertain. Here, Giovanna Massarotto, Academic Fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Technology (CTIC) offers insight into what’s next for cryptocurrency.