Digital Businesses

3 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese

Learning outcomes

  • The main business models of digital platforms
  • Os principais problemas associados à utilização de modelos de inteligência artificial
  • Potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the firm level and economy wide.
  • The nature of legal and regulatory issues created by digital platforms and AI.

Programmatic contents

  1. Network effects in digital platform markets.
  2. Launching a platform and assessing a platform’s competitive position
  3. Monetizing a platform.
  4. Market power and the Digital Markets Act.
  5. AI as a General-Purpose Technology.
  6. AI, employment and economic growth.
  7. Main objectives of the AI Act in the EU.
  8. The Legal Framework of AI
  9. The Legal Framework of Digital Services
  10. The Legal Framework of Data

Faculty

Assistant Professor
Doctoral degree in Economics (1991, Catholic University of Portugal) and a master’s in economics (1988, New University Lisboa), after undergraduate studies at…
Professor Associado Convidado
Giovanni De Gregorio is the PLMJ Chair in Law and Technology at Católica Global School of Law and Católica Lisbon School of Law. He is also a member of the…