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2024

• Davies, T., & Georgieva, Z. (2024). Google AdTech: Break Up or Break Out? Utrecht Law Journal Special Issue on Modern Bigness.

[We ask]: why can’t consumers choose which advertising network they would like to use with Google’s zero-priced online platforms? Our answer is that by integrating its advertising network into its popular online platforms, Google has foreclosed competition in the online advertising market by denying rival supply-side ad networks access to its customer base. We propose a remedy called marketised monetisation, which is complementary to the break-up proposed by the Commission. Marketised monetisation would introduce an interoperability layer between Google’s popular online services and third-party ad networks to make the online advertising market more contestable. The interoperability layer would allow consumers to choose which firm should monetise their usage of Google’s zero-priced products and services.

• Davies, T., Loghmani Khouzani, T., & Fath, B. D. (2024). ‘Solutions’ are not the answer. Frontiers in Sustainability.

We highlight how narrowly framed “solutions” can lead to unintended consequences and policy incoherence when applied to open systems, and advocate for a rhetorical shift from “problems and solutions” to “challenges and responses.”

2020

• Davies, T. (2020). The EU Commission proposes the Digital Markets Act, opening the door to a separation of revenue generation from consumer content which could increase the contestability of zero-priced platforms e-Competitions December 2020, Art. N° 106757 (open access)