I’m an economist, but I’ve recently been reading a lot of research, mostly written by lawyers, about MARKET POWER of TECH platforms, such as Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon.
This THREAD summarizes the most important articles and reports:
Sources of tech platform power are summarized by @linamkhan: 1) leveraging monopoly power in one market to enter the ancillary market; 2) gatekeeper power; 3) increasing returns to data and information exploitation power.
1. Starting from September 2019, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne is opening a new Master Programme « Finance Technology Data ». I am very excited to co-direct it with Catherine Bruneau. Here is the preliminary web-page for our Programme: pantheonsorbonne.fr/diplomes/mbfa/…2. This Programme is the academic response to the Fintech developments: loan-based and security-based crowdfunding, mobile payments, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, ICOs, the use of big data and machine learning, the entry of GAFA in finance.