Privacy or Fair Competition: What are Apple's iOS 18 Intentions?
More data control for consumers should be good. But is Apple intentionally advantaging its own apps, thereby harming competition and consumers?
Analysis Memos
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Fee Cap Fiasco: Estimating the Economic Harm Caused by Government-Imposed Price Controls on Popular Restaurant Food Delivery App Companies
COVID-era price controls on restaurant delivery app companies have harmed the industry to the tune of at least $150M.
Analysis of CFPB Implementation of Dodd-Frank Section 1033, "Open Banking Rule"
Implementation of Dodd-Frank Section 1033 should affirm consumer data ownership, ensure competition, and encourage innovation.
Analysis of State-Level “Abuse of Dominance” Antitrust Legislation and its Relevance to Small and Midsize Businesses
Several U.S. states are currently considering unprecedented antitrust legislation that abandons the long-held “consumer welfare standard” in favor of a "dominance" standard. After careful analysis, this memo recommends that state legislators reconsider so-called “abuse of dominance” (AOD)…
Breaking the Model, Part 2: How New York’s New Government-Imposed Wage Hikes Will Break the NYC Restaurant Delivery Economy
This analysis shows how food deliverer pay mandates, on top of existing limits on fees that delivery services are permitted to charge restaurants (often referred to as fee caps), would “break the model” of the NYC Restaurant Delivery Economy by disrupting the economic equilibrium between diners…
Breaking the Model: Analysis of the NYC Restaurant Delivery Economy, Including Government-Proposed Fee Caps and Wage Hikes
NYC recently imposed fee caps (price controls) on third-party restaurant delivery apps. This analysis finds that while price controls can solve short-term problems, they almost always reduce long-term value for stakeholders.
Competitor Welfare: Why the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) Benefits the App Store One Percenters - and Perhaps No One Else
We analyzed the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) from the point of view of small app publishers (small businesses typically with less than 20 employees) whose products make up the broad majority of available smartphone apps across both major app stores.
Super Selling: Most Small Businesses Use Multiple Sales Methods
The evolution of traditional retail alongside the growth of digital selling has created an infinite variety of options and aggressive competition for sellers’ attention, investment and allegiance.
Nightmare on Main Street: The Effects of ‘Populist Antitrust’ on America’s Small Businesses
This Analysis Memo examines important questions Congress and regulators have yet to address the about broad and unintended consequences of Populist Antitrust on U.S. small businesses.
Roaring Twenties or Digital Depression? Unintended Consequences of Antitrust Activism on the U.S. Small Business Economy
This Analysis Memo considers the downstream consequences of increased antitrust regulation of very large tech companies in the U.S. and Europe on the digitally-driven small business economy emerging from the pandemic.
Enhancing Payroll Protection: Sustainable Financial Wellbeing
This Analysis Memo proposes that small business payrolls are a critical national economic asset and that the U.S. Small Business Administration should experiment with programs for "payroll innovation."