This past week, the Nobel prizes were awarded to several worthy recipients. It is not that unusual to have recipients who have worked on topics relevant to technology policy, such as Bill Nordhaus on climate change economics (2018), or Emmanuelle … Continued

Last week, NASA launched the first spacecraft intended to deflect an asteroid. The asteroid in question is 6 million miles away, but the goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is to push the asteroid and see what happens … Continued

Christos has suggested this week’s topic of Competition and Algorithmic pricing. His suggestion is motivated by these two recent papers: Mackay and Brown (2021) ‘Competition in Algorithmic Pricing‘ and Assad et al (2020) on the use of algo pricing in German … Continued

Arm Holdings is the largest company in Cambridge, or at least it was until it was acquired shortly after the Brexit vote in 2016, by Softbank, the Japanese conglomerate. One reason Arm is not terribly well known (even in Cambridge!) … Continued

Our ‘textbook’ discussion of how regulation can be justified was in the context of market failures.  Using this lens, most of the historical cases seem pretty straightforward (at least in retrospect!). But (how) should regulation address something novel like non-fungible tokens … Continued