Platform Governance
Digital platforms have become the dominant organisational form of the internet economy, creating unprecedented concentrations of market power, data, and influence over public discourse. GDEF analyses how network effects and market tipping create natural monopolies, examines regulatory approaches from the EU Digital Markets Act to emerging frameworks in Asia, and investigates the information integrity challenges of platform-mediated communication.
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5 publications exploring this topic.
The AI Governance Trilemma: Innovation, Safety, and Global Competitiveness
A game-theoretic analysis of the impossible triangle facing regulators as the US, EU, and China compete to shape the global AI governance landscape through divergent regulatory strategies.
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Global Digital Tax Architecture: A Mechanism Design Analysis
The OECD's Two-Pillar Solution to digital taxation reveals fundamental mechanism design challenges. This analysis examines incentive compatibility and proposes institutional improvements.
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Open Source AI and the Innovation Commons
Public goods analysis of open-source foundation models, the free-rider problem in AI safety research, and governance frameworks for shared AI infrastructure.
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Platform Governance and Digital Markets Regulation
Digital platform concentration is striking and persistent. This analysis examines the DMA, US antitrust, and Japan's TFDPA through the lens of two-sided market theory and regulatory competition.
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Information Integrity and Platform Accountability
Disinformation as negative externality, content moderation as public good provision, and comparative analysis of the DSA, Section 230 reform proposals, and Brazil's approach.
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Developing adaptive governance frameworks for digital assets, data sovereignty, and cross-border regulatory harmonisation — balancing innovation imperatives with consumer protection and institutional accountability.
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