In this episode we are joined by Matt Perault, former Director of Public Policy at Facebook. Matt has looked the challenges squarely in the eye and shares with us how the social network giant has been dealing with them, together with his thoughts on how interactions between stakeholders can affect policy outcomes, for better or worse. It’s a rich and wide ranging conversation that you won’t want to miss.

Shilpi Battacharya, Associate Professor at Jindal Global University, and Ujwal Kumar, Policy Advisor at Consumer Unity and Trust Society discuss competition law developments in India.

Professor Tommaso Valletti has just completed his three year term as DG Comp’s Chief Economist and has much to share about his experience.

Associate Professor John Newman from the University of Miami, discusses his research on attention markets, why he thinks there are substantial individual and societal costs associated with concentration in these markets and the role for antitrust and regulation in responding to this under-explored problem.

Morag Bond and Kate Reader, the joint general managers of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Inquiry team discuss its ground-breaking inquiry into digital platforms.

Professor Frank Pasqualeof the University of Maryland discusses the dominance of digital platforms as a failing of antitrust in front of a live audience at the Melbourne Law School for the Digital Citizens Conference.

Professor Fiona Scott-Morton from the Yale School of Management discusses her views on antitrust reforms and the regulation needed to tackle the challenges posed for competition in digital platform markets.

As the Founder and Director of the economics consultancy, Lear, Dr Paolo Buccirossi has undertaken a first-of-its kind report for the UK Competition and Markets Authority involving ex post assessment of a series of mergers in the digital sector that were cleared.

Matt Stoller, Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, shares his perspective on why we should look at Big Tech issues through an ideological, not just a methodological lens.

Dr Thibault Schrepel, Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University School of Law, discusses the risks of anti-competitive conduct on blockchain and the challenges it is likely to pose for authorities in enforcing the competition rules.

Catherine Tucker, Professor of Management Science and Marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management,  shares her insights from years of empirical research into advertising and the tools and techniques that make it effective.

An expert panel appointed by the UK government has recently released its report on changes to competition policy to help unlock the opportunities of the digital economy. One of the co-authors, Professor Philip Marsden, describes it as a “quintessentially British”.

Dr Jorge Padilla shares his reflections on the state of the global banking industry today and why he’s regards it as ripe for disruption by the major digital platforms.

Professor Jeannie Paterson of the University of Melbourne Law School discusses her research into the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on consumer choice and decision-making.

Ariel Ezrachi shares his insights on the values that underpin European competition policy and law, the ways in which they inform the pluralistic objectives of the law and affect its enforcement.

Is part of a broader movement for political and social change? We ask Glen Weyl, founder and Chairman of the RadicalxChange Foundation, Principal Researcher at Microsoft and Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

This is a thorough introduction to Blockchain from Dr Thibault Schrepel, Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University School of Law.

Will blockchain challenge the power of the major digital platforms?  And what are the risks that blockchain itself will become concentrated and fall prey to anti-competitive conduct? Dr Thibault Schrepel, Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University School of Law, takes on these challenging questions.

This episode investigates the meaning of the now often used, if not abused, term “fake news”. It explores whether this is a phenomenon that relates to competition and, if so, whether it is a reflection of too little competition, or indeed, too much.

Facebook has been taking fire on a host of fronts from governments and regulators around the world.  One of the latest to take aim is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in its Inquiry into Digital Platforms and their impact on media and advertising sectors. In episode 20 of the podcast Dr Katherine Kemp explained the key findings and recommendations in the ACCC’s preliminary report, in which the Commission proposed changes to merger review and increased regulatory scrutiny as...

Dr Katharine Kemp from the University of New South Wales steers us through the detailed maze of factual and legal analysis in the preliminary report from The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry into the impact of digital platforms on media and advertising markets.

Professor William Kovacic of George Washington University and King’s College London has an encyclopedic knowledge of competition systems and agencies around the world. Bill explains why the United States is falling behind global competition standards and what drives Margrethe Vestager in leading the European Commission’s aggressive stance on big tech.

Re-capping key debates and recurring themes and reliving some of the highlights and the lighter moments from the Competition Lore discussion over its first six months.

“Capitalism without competition is not capitalism” - Jonathan Tepper outlines the challenges that capitalism faces from big business.