Computer & Communication Industry Association

Ensuring Antitrust Actually Promotes Competition in the Digital Economy: Evaluating Proposed Remedies in the Google Case

PublishedMay 29, 2025
Written By
  • D. Daniel Sokol
  • Jeffrey Prince
  • Feng Zhu
The authors acknowledge funding for this paper from the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Leading academics evaluate proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case, and find that they include de facto regulatory proposals that threaten to disrupt beneficial competitive dynamics. Among the authors' findings: break-ups are rarely used in single-firm cases, and often fail to provide lasting benefits when they are used; requiring Google to share technology with rivals discourages investment in innovation; and banning Google’s search distribution deals would eliminate a revenue stream for partner companies and force them to raise prices for consumers, or lead to market exit.

Read Download
Research
January 12, 2026

Repealing Section 230 Would Cost Americans Over $2.2 Trillion

Section 230 of the Communications Act (Section 230) importantly places legal accountability on communicators of speech, rather than those who merely publish it. It also allows digital services to safe...
  • Content Moderation
Read more
Research
December 15, 2025

Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition

A range of exceptions to copyright protection under U.S. law, classified here under the broad heading of fair use, sustain companies that represent nearly one-fifth of total U.S. GDP. This study fi...

    Copyright
Read more
Research
November 18, 2025

2025 Survey of Product Impact in the Connected Economy: Artificial Intelligence

The CCIA Research Center's 2025 Survey of Product Impact in the Connected Economy: Artificial Intelligence finds that generative AI is the most rapidly adopted general purpose technology in history...

  • Digital Economy
Read more
Research
October 28, 2025

UK Live Streaming Survey Results

A new survey of UK residents finds that livestreaming has become one of the UK’s most valued and socially engaging forms of digital media, worth more than £17 billion (US$23 billion) annually to...

    Emerging Technology
Read more