The Economics, Law and Policy of Communications and Media Markets

Competition, Regulation and Freedom of Expression in Digital Markets. FSR C&M, CMPF and ENTraNCE Annual Scientific Seminar 2017

The FSR C&M, CMPF and FCP Annual Scientific Seminar brings together scholars in the fields of economics, law and political science, as well as practitioners. The focus will be to consider frontier research in electronic communications, internet and media with a goal of fostering research ideas and informing policy. The seminar will include 15-18 research papers presented over a two day period.

Keynote Speaker: Michal Gal (University of Haifa)

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Selected papers might be published in the RSCAS Working Papers Series after the Scientific Seminar.

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• United States Frequency Allocations – Lisa George
• Impact of Superfast Broadband on Local Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence Using a Matching Estimator – Carlo Cambini
• Regulation and Investment in European High-Speed Broadband Infrastructure – Wolfgang Briglauer, Carlo Cambini, Michał Grajek
• Media Pluralism Monitoring in Brazil through the CMPF Monitor: an initial approach – Walter Vieira, Ceneviva and Ruth Carolina Rodrigues Sgrignolli
• Ad networks, consumer tracking and privacy – Antonio Russo and Anna D’Annunzio
• Media market concentration and pluralism – Torben Stuhmeier
• Discussion of the Paper: Searching a rationale for search neutrality in the Age of Google – Donatella Porrini
• From the scarcity of broadcast frequencies to the filter bubble. Regulating gatekeepers – Gàbor Polyak
• Moving from a fragmented state role towards a Single Media Literacy Policy – Krisztina Nagy
• Bolkestein revisited in the era of the sharing economy – Yolanda Martinez Mata
• Technical Progress in the relationship between competition and investment – François Jeanjean
• Impact of Superfast: Broadband on Local Economic Growth. Empirical Evidence using a Matching Estimator – Maude Hasbi
• Algorithmic Consumers. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough…” Albert Einstein – Michal S. Gal and Niva Elki
• Searching a rationale for search neutrality in the age of Google – Massimiliano Granieri and Valeria Falce
• The role of personal data and privacy in merger analysis – Elias Deutscher
• How to integrate zero-price markets in antitrust analysis – Alexandre de Streel and Fernando Herrera-Gonzales
• What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany – Joan Calzada and Richard Gil
• Path Dependencies in Regulation and their Determinants: Recent Evidence from Regulated EU Broadband Markets – Wolfgang Briglauer
• Discussion of Jeanjean: Technical progress in the Relationship between Competition and Investment – Steffen Hoernig