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Digital Platforms: Towards a Comprehensive Policy Framework
Costo
1.300 €
Programma
Digital platforms have become a focal point in policy conversations across the world, also due to their ambiguous impact on the economy and society. On the one hand, digital platforms have been the source of increased consumer savings, job creation, and economic growth; on the other hand, they raise novel concerns, which current regulatory approaches and instruments do not appear well-equipped to address. These concerns relate to possible harms such as monopoly rent extraction, adverse impacts on labor conditions and smaller businesses, content filtering and disinformation.
The result has been the development of a complex policy discussion. It is beyond debate that all waves of technological change – and digital is no exception – bring innovations that require adjustments to existing norms and institutions. Thus, the complexity is not so much about “whether” to regulate digital platforms, rather, the complexity is due to the difficulty of reaching consensus on “what”, “how” and “who” to regulate.
The course offers a deep dive into legal and regulatory approaches that have been attempted over the past three decades, from antitrust rules on dominance and mergers to Platform-To-Business (P2B) relationships. The recently proposed EU Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, the recent Chinese guidelines on anticompetitive practices by internet platforms, and similar regulatory actions adopted in Korea and Canada feature different approaches to similar problems. The newly launched EU-U.S. Tech and Trade Council will try to smoothen, to the extent possible, transatlantic differences in this domain.
Participants will learn about the evolving economic and technological features of digital platforms, their prospective benefits and risk for the economy and society, in the context of a growing use of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence techniques, which often escape the ability of regulators to monitor the market. A unique opportunity to gain state-of-the-art knowledge of one of the most disruptive phenomena of our times.
The result has been the development of a complex policy discussion. It is beyond debate that all waves of technological change – and digital is no exception – bring innovations that require adjustments to existing norms and institutions. Thus, the complexity is not so much about “whether” to regulate digital platforms, rather, the complexity is due to the difficulty of reaching consensus on “what”, “how” and “who” to regulate.
The course offers a deep dive into legal and regulatory approaches that have been attempted over the past three decades, from antitrust rules on dominance and mergers to Platform-To-Business (P2B) relationships. The recently proposed EU Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, the recent Chinese guidelines on anticompetitive practices by internet platforms, and similar regulatory actions adopted in Korea and Canada feature different approaches to similar problems. The newly launched EU-U.S. Tech and Trade Council will try to smoothen, to the extent possible, transatlantic differences in this domain.
Participants will learn about the evolving economic and technological features of digital platforms, their prospective benefits and risk for the economy and society, in the context of a growing use of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence techniques, which often escape the ability of regulators to monitor the market. A unique opportunity to gain state-of-the-art knowledge of one of the most disruptive phenomena of our times.
