Antitrust and Information Technologies

Regulating Information Platforms: The Convergence to Antitrust

Technological methods of transmitting information, i.e. information platforms, are thought to pose significant regulatory challenges. The markets in which telecommunications and other information services firms compete are associated with natural monopoly tendencies and powerful network effects that make some cooperation among competitors essential to consumer welfare. The importance of protect...

U.S. Antitrust Policy, Interface Compatibility Standards, and Information Technology

Thomas Hemphill is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at . Nicholas Vonortas is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy in the Elliott School of International Affairs, also...

Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and the New Information Platforms

Web and Information Technologies

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Information and Communication Technologies

SUMMARY This Deliverable Report describes the research performed within Work Package 3, Task 3.2 (Control Subject to Transmission Constraints, with Transmission Errors), in the first 36 months of the project. It targets the issue of control subject to transmission constraints with transmission error. This research concerns problems arising from the presence of a noisy communication channel (spe...