The Wired‘s Nitasha Tiku, in her March 20th article, “The EU Hits Google With A Third Billion-dollar Fine. So What?” quoted Maurice Stucke extensively. A copy of her story is available here.
Bloomberg Quotes Maurice Stucke
In her article, Dem Presidential Candidates Seize on Antitrust as Campaign Issue, Bloomberg’s Victoria Graham quotes Maurice Stucke on how Senators Klobuchar and Warren make reining in dominant companies a pressing issue in their 2020 U.S. Presidential campaigns.
Maurice Stucke Speaks at the Bundeskartellamt’s 19th International Conference on Competition
Germany’s competition authority invited Maurice Stucke to speak at its 19th International Conference on Competition on March 14, 2019. Also on the panel were —
- Tembinkosi Bonakele, Commissioner, Competition Commission of South Africa, Pretoria,
- Sang-Jo Kim, Chair of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, Seoul,
- Ulrich Nussbaum, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin, and
- Andrew Tyrie, Chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, London.
Professor William E. Kovacic of George Washington University Law School moderated the panel.
Maurice Stucke Speaks at American University Conference
Maurice Stucke spoke at a March 8 conference, hosted by American University’s Washington College of Law, on Jonathan Baker’s forthcoming book, The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy. The other speakers included:
- Daniel Crane, Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School,
- Andrew Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law,
- Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management Professor of Law,
- Dennis Carlton, David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
- Debbie Feinstein, Partner, Arnold & Porter,
- Steven Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown Law,
- Bill Baer, Partner, Arnold & Porter,
- William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, GW Law, and
- Joseph Simons, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.
Maurice Stucke Speaks at Conference “Antitrust and Silicon Valley: New Themes and Direction in Competition Law and Policy”
Santa Clara University School of Law invited Maurice Stucke to discuss the risks of data-opolies at its March 1 conference, “Antitrust and Silicon Valley: New Themes and Direction in Competition Law and Policy.” Videos of the day-long event, which attracted practitioners, federal and state antitrust officials, and scholars, are available here.
Bloomberg Quotes Maurice Stucke on FTC Tech Task Force
In their article, U.S. Antitrust Task Force Target Tech Giants, Bloomberg’s David McLaughlin , Krista Gmelich , and Naomi Nix quote Maurice Stucke on the FTC task force created to scrutinize the tech sector.
Maurice Stucke Quoted by Wired on German Facebook Decision
On February 7, Germany’s Federal Cartel Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) issued a decision prohibiting Facebook from combining user data from different sources. Wired’s Emily Dreyfuss wrote a story about the decision, “German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook’s Whole Ad Business.” Maurice Stucke is quoted in the article, which may be found here.
Konkurrenz Group’s Co-founders Testify at FTC Hearings
The Konkurrenz Group’s co-founders testified in several of the Federal Trade Commission’s Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
Allen Grunes testified in the November 6, 2018 hearing, “The Intersection of Big Data, Privacy, and Competition.”
Maurice Stucke testified on the November 13, 2018 hearing, “Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics” and the November 1st hearing, “Alternatives to the Consumer Welfare Standard.”
Maurice Stucke Testifies Before Canada’s House of Commons
Maurice Stucke testified on October 4 before the House of Commons of Canada’s Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in view of its study of Breach of Personal Information Involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. A transcript of the hearing is available here. The report by the Committee, “DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT: RISKS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE ERA OF DISINFORMATION AND DATA MONOPOLY” that incorporates Professor Stucke’s recommendations, is available here.
Wall Street Journal Article Mentions Work of Maurice Stucke and Allen Grunes
In an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “How Google and Facebook Are Monopolizing Ideas,” Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip quotes from Maurice Stucke’s article in the Harvard Business Review earlier this year and also from Maurice Stucke and Allen Grunes’s older article on “Antitrust and the Marketplace of Ideas.”
The subject of Ip’s story is Google’s decision to ban bail-bond companies from advertising on its platforms and Facebook’s decision to do the same. Ip writes: “That Google can ban ads from an industry that offends its values is not, by itself, noteworthy. Media companies have long decided what content or ads to carry for the same reason. The difference is that even after decades of consolidation, no media company enjoys a U.S. market share as dominant as Google’s in Internet search (close to 90%) or Facebook Inc.’s in social networking. Like earlier bans on payday-loan ads, Google’s bail-bond ad ban, which Facebook copied the next day, effectively kicked an entire industry out of a major advertising channel.
The story is here (subscription required).