April 25, 2024, 10:00
Bruxelles
Co-organized by the TSE Digital Center, Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy of and the European Commission's Joint Research Center, the workshop aimed at kick-starting a collaboration between researchers of these institutions to evaluate the impact of the recently implemented Digital Markets Act. The original format of the workshop consisted in teams of two to three researchers writing and presenting a memo about a particular article of the DMA, highlighting the article’s rationale, its possible consequences, and ways to quantitatively assess its efficacy.
Thursday 25 April
10:00 Introduction and welcome, Fiona Scott-Morton, Nestor Duch Brown, Alexandre de Cornière
10:15 Preliminary evidence on Amazon’s ranking algorithm, Joel Waldfogel
11:00 Meta’s new ad data and what can be learned, Muxin Li
11:20 coffee
11:50 memo discussion. 5 minutes to present, 15 minutes discussion
- Self-preferencing (Joel Waldfogel, Sofia Amaral, Alex de Cornière)
- No tying of CPS (Katja Seim, Laura Lasio, Doh-Shin Jeon)
- Choice of default (Gene Kimmelman, Muxin Li, Paul Heidhues)
- MFN (Carlo Reggiani, Andrew Rhodes)
13:10 lunch
14:10 Discussion of Apple’s new app store rules, Jacques Cremer
14:45 memo discussion
- Disintermediation allowed (Michael Luca, Nestor Duch Brown, Paul Seabright)
- In-app purchase payment alternative, bypassing app stores (Fiona Scott-Morton, Roxana Fernandez, Monika Schnitzer)
- FRAND terms in app stores (Ron Borzekowski, Elena Navaja, Jacques Crémer)
15:45 coffee
16:15 Measure traffic flows’ response to the DSA, Carlo Reggiani
17:00 Discussion of messaging interoperability, Alissa Cooper
17:30 Discussion of handset choice screen project, Amelia Fletcher, Paul Heidhues, Mike Luca
Friday 26 April
9:00 memo discussion
- Transparency of advertising (Francesco Decarolis, Giorgio Monti, Sarah Lemaire)
- Continuous real-time access to data (Bruno Carballa, Kevin Williams, Alessandro Bonatti)
- Access & interoperability with hardware & software features (Mike Sinkinson, Honey Batra, Amelia Fletcher)
- Interoperability between personal communication services (Alissa Cooper, Alexandre De Streel)
10:20 coffee and group discussion
- What has happened that is surprising?
- Priorities for summer research