An archive of DCI’s research publications from 2018-2026, prior to updating our focus on the foundations of the frontier economy: energy, compute, and work.
This paper reviews some of the available research on the regulation of multi-sided marketplaces as well as specific aspects of the NYC fee cap law and concludes that government-imposed fee caps are bad policy.
We discuss with Michael Wieder, Co-Founder & President of Lalo, how a digitally-native SMB sells, uses innovative tech, and the potential impact of tech legislation on such a business.
Without federal legislation around the ownership and privacy of data collected by sophisticated personal vehicles, the legal rules of the road about such data are unclear.
On the doorstep of recession, U.S. rural small business sellers find success, resilience, and agility by using multiple sales methods, both online and offline.
A partisan move by FTC Commissioners seeks to block Meta from acquiring a small VR company. This move upends decades of antitrust standards and likely causes more harm than good.
State and local governments can supercharge market competition and innovation by better empowering alternative business models like worker cooperatives.
Analysis of datasets on M&A and venture activity shows Big Tech's startup acquisitions don't reduce competition or dampen innovation.
This paper analyzes how several pieces of Congressional legislation (notably the American Innovation and Choice Online Act) would disrupt platforms that tech startups heavily rely on.
This report estimates that if the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) passes, it would cause U.S. small businesses to lose $500B in sales over the next five years.
This report details the main results of a survey of small business sellers in rural U.S. areas, with a focus on how they have many options for selling their products both online and offline.
New policies propose to ban platforms from selling in their own marketplaces but disregard the economic benefits of seller-operated marketplaces.
This paper applies a "platform governance" lens to describe in a detailed way how draft "progressive antitrust" legislation in Congress would harm small businesses.
