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Cited, a documentary radio show about big ideas that change the world, interviewed Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi about their new book, Virtual Competition.
The interview, which is available here, was played nationally on the Canadian Broadcast Corp. Radio shows The Doc Project and Podcast Playlist as well as on the NPR-affiliate, KUOW and over 100 campus and community radio stations in North America.
In its article, “This ‘Aggregator’ App for Uber and Lyft Rides Hopes to Make the Cut,” Fortune Magazine quotes Maurice Stucke:
“Maurice Stucke, of the Konkurrenz Group, told Fortune that this Uber’s approach can be especially problematic if its policy’s purpose is to protect the company’s monopoly or help it become one. ‘The greater the risk that the price transparency would let consumers find the better price, the greater the anti-trust risk,’ said Stucke.”
The article is available here.
In “They Have, Right Now, Another You,” Sue Halpern favorably reviews Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy, which Maurice Stucke co-authored with Ariel Ezrachi, and Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
The review in the Dec. 22, 2016 New York Review of Books is available here.
John Naughton, in “How do you throw the book at an algorithm?,” favorably reviewed Virtual Competition, which Maurice Stucke co-authored with Ariel Ezrachi.
The December 4 article in the Guardian is available here.
In his article, “Be Warned: How Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google Just Might Control the World:
Technology is a two-edged sword. But not for the reason you might expect,” Justin Bariso discussed the work by Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi on digital assistants.
The December 1 article is available here.
The Liege Competition and Innovation Institute hosted on December 1, 2016 a roundtable discussion of Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke’s new book, Virtual Competition.
Cyril Ritter, Case officer at DG Competition, EU Commission and Ashwin Ittoo, Professor, HEC Management School, University of Liege, provided comments, and Nicolas Petit moderated the roundtable.
Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi discuss in their Wired article the significant social, political, and economic concerns of the four super-platforms’ digital personal assistants (Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Echo, Facebook’s M, and Google’s Assistant and Home).
The article can be found here.
On November 29, 2016, the OECD held a hearing on Big Data to explore the implications on competition authorities’ work and whether competition law is the appropriate tool for dealing with issues arising from the use Big Data.
The Background Note by the Secretariat, “Big Data: Bringing Competition Policy to the Digital Era,” relied heavily on the work of The Konkurrenz Group’s Allen Grunes and Maurice Stucke.
Moreover, Prof. Stucke presented at the hearing, attended by competition officials from around the world. His slides (along with the other pannelists’) are available here.
In “The Invisible Digital Hand:Thanks to sophisticated data about their potential customers, online sellers engage in ‘almost perfect’ behavioral price discrimination,” Burton G. Malkiel provides a favorable review of Virtual Competition, which Maurice Stucke co-authored with Ariel Ezrachi:
“Virtual Competition” displays a deep understanding of the internet world and is outstandingly researched. The polymath authors illustrate their arguments with relevant case law as well as references to studies in economics and behavioral psychology. There are almost 100 pages of endnotes. But the writing is clear and lucid, and the text is sprinkled with wonderful illustrative vignettes.
The Wall Street Journal review is available here.
Kevin Carty, in his article “An Unpredictable Upcoming Matchup: Donald Trump vs. Big Business,” quotes Maurice Stucke:
Maurice Stucke, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, says it is vital that anti-monopoly regulators focus on internet goliaths. As “we transition into a data-driven economy, several of the significant shortcomings [of the Chicago School] are magnified,” he said. For one, the Chicago School’s focus on efficiency and prices is ill-equipped for the online market, in which many products are free but some companies still are able to engage in anti-competitive behavior.
The November 16, 2016 article in The Atlantic is available here.