USC Marshall Initiative on Digital Competition
About
The continued and rapid growth of E-commerce has generated questions about the consequences for society, business, and the global economy. The USC Marshall Initiative on Digital Competition, starting in January 2021, aims to discover insights on these questions through a collaboration of industry practitioners and academics from business disciplines as well as non-business disciplines (e.g. computer science, economics, law, communications); and disseminate these insights to a broad set of audiences that includes academics, business leaders, and the public.
Topics of Interest
- Analysis of innovation, disruption, and competition for online platforms and their ecosystems
- Implications of regulatory policies on digital platform competition, and value creation
- Evaluation of policy proposals by lawmakers, think tanks, as well as by industry trade groups and consumer advocates
Core Team
Anthony Dukes
Chair and Professor of Marketing, USC Marshall
Daniel Sokol
Professor of Law, USC Gould and Affiliate Professor USC Marshall
Robin Thimbriel
Administrative Coordinator Initiative on Digital Competition
(She/Her/Hers)
Research Affiliates
External Affiliates
Carmelo Cennamo
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School
Research Focus: Platform ecosystems, Competition in digital markets, Platform competition and platform disruption, Digital transformation at market and sector level
Yuxin Chen
Dean of Business, Distinguished Global Network Professor, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Professor, NYU
Research Focus: Data-driven Marketing, Internet Marketing, Competitive Strategies, Structural Empirical Models, Bayesian Econometric Methods
Anindya Ghose
Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Professor of Marketing, NYU's Stern School of Business
Research Focus: Social Media, Text Mining of User-Generated Content, Digital, Advertising and Marketing, Mobile Apps, Mobile Internet and, Mobile Commerce, Electronic Commerce, Crowdfunding
Anja Lambrecht
Professor of Marketing, London Business School
Research Focus: Pricing, Choice and usage under nonlinear pricing, Biases in tariff choice, Online advertising, Electronic markets
Oke Odudu
Access Officer at Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Research Focus: Antitrust law, Cartels, Competition law, European Union law
Wonseok Oh
K.C.B. Chair Professor of Information Systems, KAIST College of Business
Research Focus: Economics of IT and AI, Consumer Data Analytics, AI & Emerging Technologies, Digital Marketing
View Profile on Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Website
Melissa Schilling
Herzog Family Professor of Management, NYU
Research Focus: Technological Change and Innovation, Alliances and Collaboration Strategies, Cognition, Creativity and Learning, Pharmaceutical and Biotech Innovation, Technology Standards and Modularity, Breakthrough Innovators
Michael Smith
Professor of Information Technology and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Focus: Internet Market Efficiency, Customer Choice Behavior at Shopbots, Internet Pricing Behavior, Peer-to-Peer Network Efficiency and Design
Catherine Tucker
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan
Research Focus: Management Science
View Profile on Massachusetts Institute of Technology Website
Marshall Van Alstyne
Professor of Information Systems, Questrom School of Business
Research Focus: Economics of Free Software & Platform Innovation, Network Effects & Information Product Design, Information Economics & Antispam Technologies, Information Flow & White Collar Productivity
Hema Yoganarasimhan
Professor of Marketing, University of Washington
Research Focus: Digital Marketing, Online Advertising,Two-Sided Markets, Auctions, Online Search.
Michael Zhang
Chair Professor of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Focus: Business Analytics, Digital Finance, Online advertising, Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Feng Zhu
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Research Focus: Technology and Operations Management
USC Affiliates
Mohammed Alyakoob
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operation
Shanatu Dutta
Dave and Jeanne Tappan Chair in Marketing and Professor of Marketing
Erik Hovenkamp
Assistant Professor of Law
Nikhil Malik
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Dina Mayzlin
Associate Dean for the Ph.D. Program & Professor of Marketing
Alex Miller
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Milan Miric
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Alejandra Palacios
Former Chair of COFECE (Mexico’s Antitrust Authority), Senior Fellow
Davide Proserpio
Assistant Professor of Marketing & Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Rodney Ramcharan
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
Tianshu Sun
Robert R. Dockson Associate Professor in Business Administration & Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Guofu Tan
Professor of Economics
Kalinda Ukanwa
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Sha Yang
Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Ernest Hahn Professor of Marketing
Graduate Researchers
Carter Faust
Master of Science in Applied Economics and Econometrics (MS AEE)
Electronic Commerce, Electronic Markets, Digital Finance
(She/Her/Hers)
Meng Li
Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management
Implication of Data Policies for E-Commerce
Taxation and Online Retailing
(She/Her/Hers)
Kenneth On
Juris Doctor
Antitrust/ M&A
Aigerim Saudabayeva
Juris Doctor
Antitrust; Merger Review; Impact of Big Tech on the News Industry
(She/Her/Hers)
Events
Data and Innovation: Solutions and Business Models in the Digital Economy
Panelist: Anindya Ghose (NYU Stern) and Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan)
Moderators: Daniel Sokol (USC) and Marcela Mattiuzzo (Coordinator of the LGPD GT of the IBRAC Digital Markets Committee)
JEMS Digital Transformation Conference
Directors: Anthony Dukes & D. Daniel Sokol
Special Issues of JEMS devoted to digital business
Attendance Options: Live and Virtual idc@marshall.usc.edu
US Digital Antitrust Developments
The USC Initiative on Digital Competition invites you to US Digital Antitrust Developments, a webinar highlighting the changing antitrust landscape on digital platforms. Panelists will provide perspectives why there is antitrust regulatory interest on various platforms both in terms of mergers and conduct and what this means for business planning. Participants will listen and learn about antitrust risk, new developments in terms of government and private cases, and theories of how platforms can create value and still survive under increasing regulatory scrutiny.
Spring 2022
Privacy Policy in the Digital Age
The USC Initiative on Digital Competition invites you to “Privacy Policy in the Digital Age”. Panelists will provide perspectives on the changing landscape of privacy policy. Participants will listen and learn about current regulatory trends in the US, EU, and UK as well as developments in privacy-related research that studies these changes.
Spring 2022
Webinar
The Role of Technology Platforms in Enabling Entry of Startups
Panelists:
Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law USC Gould and Affiliate Professor USC Marshall
Shantanu Dutta, Dave and Jeanne Tapan Chair Professor in Marketing, USC Marshall
Viswanath Pingali, Associate Professor of Economics, IIM AhmedabadModerator -Nishant Chadha, Head of Research Centre for The Digital Future
How Do Business, Law, and Regulation Impact AI Engineering Researchers: Possible Collaboration and Complementarities
Panelists:
Anthony Dukes, Chair & Professor of Marketing, University of Southern California
Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, USC Gould & Affiliate Professor USC Marshall
Dina Mayzlin, Associate Dean for the Ph.D. Program & Professor of Marketing
Mohammed Alyakoob, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences & Operation
What I Learned From My Stint In Government
Moderator:
Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, University of Southern California
Panelists:
Leemore Dafney, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Guofu Tan, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
Nancy Rose, Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Future of Retailing and E-Commerce
Moderator:
Anthony Dukes, Chair & Professor of Marketing, University of Southern California
Panelists:
Tim Steiner, CEO, Ocado
Rong Yan, Sr. Engineering Director, Product Engineering Snap, Inc.
Shweta Khajuria, Director, Evercore ISI, Research Division
Platform Acquisitions
Moderator:
D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, USC Gould and Affiliate Professor USC Marshall
Panelists:
Tanisha James, Partner at Cooley
Erik Rannala, Mucker Capital
Milan Miric, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Digital Competition and Regulation - What Does the Future Hold?
Moderator:
D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, USC Gould and Affiliate Professor USC Marshall
Panelists:
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
Ginger Jin, University of Maryland
Oke Odudu University of Cambridge
The Future of Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration
Panelists:
Jamillia P. Ferris, Partner, Antitrust and Competition, Wilson Sonsini
Margaret T. Segall, Partner, Antitrust, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Alexander Paul Okuliar, Co-Chair, Global Antitrust Law Practice Group, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Peter Mucchetti, Partner, Antitrust and Litigation, Clifford Chance
Podcasts
The Platform Competition Podcast features the Directors Dr. Anthony Dukes and Dr. D. Daniel Sokol diving deep into conversation on insights of e-commerce and digital platforms through collaboration of industry practitioners and academics from business disciplines and beyond. This podcast is for everyone; as we celebrate the innovation, the diversity, and the voices - in America, and around the world.
Podcast 1
Michael Grenfell, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)
Podcast 2
Reiko Aoki, Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission
Podcast 3
Matthew Boswell, Commission, Competition Bureau of Canada;
Jeanne Pratt, Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Branch;
Anthony Durocher, Deputy Commissioner, Competition Promotion Branch