Research
Our initial research interests include how digitalization changes firms and markets, the implications of these changes for regulation and antitrust, the consequences of activist antitrust, how cultural and legal differences across countries affect digital development, the economics of information and privacy, the nature of rivalry in digital markets, financing digital startups, and the impacts of social media and other information tech sectors on business development and entrepreneurship, especially for women, minorities, and the poor.
Research Papers
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Project Navigate
Project Navigate is an in-depth exploration into the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). This initiative aims to dissect the broad implications of these regulations for the digital market, emphasizing their impact on innovation, competition, and consumer rights. By blending academic inquiry with practical analysis, the project aspires to illuminate the nuances of digital policy and its global repercussions.
Research Grants
DMI’s Competitive Research Award Program encourages and sustains active research programs related to deepening our understanding of digital markets and the associated public policies, with priority given to interdisciplinary research.
Winter 2023 – submissions due Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Award guidelines
Past Funding Recipients:
2022
John Chen, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Management Department
Towards a Behavioral Theory of Incumbent Repositioning to Disruption Threats by Entrants
Yang Yang, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Marketing Department
Reducing Smartphone Users’ Tendency to Believe and Share Misinformation
Tianxin Zou, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Marketing Department
Search Neutrality and Competition between First-party and Third-party Sellers
2021
Haldun Aytug, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Information Systems and Operations Management
Using Machine Learning to Estimate Heterogeneous Treatment Effect of Product Recommendations
Subhajyoti “Shubho” Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Information Systems and Operations Management
Ads or No Ads: Modeling the Competition of Media Platforms with Different Revenue Generation Strategies
Anuj Kumar, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Information Systems and Operations Management
Are Digital Recommendations Welfare Enhancing? Estimates of Relative Benefits of Product Recommendations to Consumers and Retailers
Yang Yang, Ph.D. – UF Warrington College of Business, Marketing Department
Identifying and Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of Raising Awareness of Algorithmic Biases
2019
Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, Ph.D. – UF College of Journalism, Department of Media Production, Management and Technology
Customizing the Digital Market: A Consumer Perspective of AI, Personalization, and Privacy
Presentations
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