Reports
Hate Speech & Digital Ads: The Impact of Harmful Content on Brands
Data from two independently-administered survey experiments demonstrates significant likely damage to both websites and advertisers from harmful content like hate speech, suggesting that "must-carr...
Apocalypse Not: The Resilience of Retail SMBs in the 2010s
This study finds that small and medium-sized retail businesses (SMBs) experienced a period of resurgence and growth in the 2010s. Empirical analyses suggest a direct link between growth of retail S...
Government Mandates to Remove Content Are Ineffective, Costly, and Anti-Competitive
The CCIA Research Center’s ex post cost-benefit analysis of Germany’s Network Enforcement Act (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz or NetzDG), a model for such policies, finds that in 2022, NetzDG resu...
The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing drumbeat for greater internet regulation. But even the most well-intended policy approaches may have completely unexpected negative consequence...
Tools To Compete: Lower Costs, More Resources, and the Symbiosis of the Tech Ecosystem
New research from the CCIA Research Center and Engine shows that startups leverage dozens of technology services and tools like AWS, GitHub, Google Suite, Zoom, and Slack to build and run their com...
Competitive Dynamics of Online and Brick-and-Mortar Retail Prices
Prices charged by brick-and-mortar retail channels tend to correspond closely to those charged online – good news for consumers, who benefit from a competitive retail landscape through lower pric...
Fireside Chat with Hal Varian on Antitrust Bills
A recent fireside chat with Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian featured discussion on the flawed reasoning behind proposed tech regulations in antitrust bills like S. 2992, H.R. 3825, and H.R. 3...
Radical Proposals to Overhaul Antitrust Laws Would Cost Public Sector Workers in Pension Benefits
Radical proposals to overhaul antitrust law, such as pending bills S. 2992 and H.R. 3816, would cost 27.9 million teachers, fire fighters, and nurses almost $4,000 per person in lost retirement b...