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Harper’s Magazine and The Authors Guild hosted an event to launch the new book Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy, which Maurice Stucke co-authored with Ariel Ezrachi. Mary Rasenberger, Executive Director of the Authors Guild, moderated the event at New York’s Book Culture.
Harvard Business Review published Maurice Stucke and Oxford University’s Ariel Ezrachi’s article, “How Pricing Bots Could Form Cartels and Make Things More Expensive.” The article explores several scenarios where intelligent pricing algorithms subtly collude with one another.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development examines the challenges of digitalization raised in the new book, Virtual Competition, by Oxford University’s Ariel Ezrachi and the Konkurrenz Group’s Maurice E. Stucke during its meeting of the UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform.
Pro-Market, the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, interviewed Maurice Stucke and his co-author Ariel Ezrachi on How Can Antitrust Be Used to Protect Competition in the Digital Marketplace?
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Is the Digital Economy Much Less Competitive Than We Think It Is?
Allen Grunes will be speaking at the upcoming EDPS-BEUC joint conference in Brussels, entitled “Big data, individual rights and smart enforcement.”
This conference brings together leading regulators and experts to consider the state of regulation, focusing on key areas of economic and societal change, the platform economy and the internet of things, and explores two policy and regulatory responses, including EU support for a tracking-free space on the internet and a new network for authorities to share information across sectoral boundaries.
The agenda may be found here.
In its article, “Bayer’s Monsanto Acquisition to Face Politically Charged Scrutiny,” Reuters quotes a report prepared by the Konkurrenz Group on the merger. The article also quotes its co-author Maurice Stucke:
Maurice Stucke, formerly in the Justice Department now with the Konkurrenz Group, said it was highly unlikely that Obama administration antitrust enforcers, who have knocked down a long list of big mergers in concentrated industries this year, would make the final decision in the Bayer-Monsanto deal.
“Merger reviews of this complexity would take six to nine months,” Stucke said. “This would be the first major test of the new administration.”
Other media outlets, including Forbes (Poland), TheStreet and The Irish Times, cited the report.