Tag: Free Services

The well-known economic principle that “there is no such thing as a free lunch” ("NFLP") has enjoyed a recent revival in the assessment of...

One of the consumer harms from monopoly online platforms commentators point to is the loss of privacy. That is, privacy is a dimension over...

A feature of many digital platforms is that they offer services to one side of the platform “for free.” In some instances, the business...

Consumers on the Internet routinely give away data — information about their habits, preferences, purchasing patterns, contacts and more — in return for “free”...

Zero-price goods and services potentially create a problem for regulators interested in crafting monetary remedies that are deterrent, efficient, and inexpensive to implement in...

Since the release of its Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report in 2019, the ACCC has continued to be active in investigating digital platform market...

“Free” once had a simple meaning – something without constraint whatsoever, as in “free as air.” At times, some have suggested that antitrust enforcement...

Services offered by Google, Facebook, and their kin are not truly free: users contribute to the monetization of the platform. The question is not...

David Evans, Dec 20, 2012 In the last decade a number of internet-based multi-sided platforms have emerged that provide free services to, in some cases,...