Daniel Sokol

About

Daniel Sokol is the Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and an affiliated Professor of Marketing at USC Marshall School of Business. His work focuses on the interface of law and business across multiple dimensions, including antitrust, data breaches, corporate governance, compliance, innovation, mergers and acquisitions, technological transformation, and platforms. He is recognized as one of the top 10 most cited antitrust law professors in the past five years. Sokol has edited ten books and his scholarly articles have been published in prominent journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and various law and economics journals. He actively contributes to public discourse through op-eds and media appearances, addressing issues like digital competition, trade policies, and antitrust enforcement. Sokol's expertise and research significantly influence the fields of law and business, particularly in areas related to digital markets and competition policy.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Business
• Computer Security
• Internet privacy
• Accounting
• Public relations
• Economics
• Industrial organization
• Finance

Selected publications

• The rise of empirical online platform research in the new millennium

  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · 2023-12-18 · 15 citations

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  Abstract Online platforms have emerged as a dominant business model in numerous industries in the new millennium. In light of the substantial and burgeoning body of empirical platform research, this article synthesizes extant studies and identifies the evolution of underlying research methodologies and topics. Building upon a database of 860 empirical online platform papers in premier journals during the first two decades of the new millennium, this article presents a categorization framework ba…

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• Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

  Management Science · 2025-11-07 · 3 citations

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  Many jurisdictions have launched antitrust enforcement and brought in regulation of large tech platforms. The swift and strict implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Platform Economy (Platform Guidelines) provides a quasi-natural experiment to evaluate the impact of antitrust regulation on platform competition. We adopt a difference-in-differences approach to empirically explore the impact of China’s Platform Guidelines on the number of investments and the entry of startups i…

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• What Happened to the ICN?

  Journal of European Competition Law & Practice · 2023-09-01 · 1 citations

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• Medical students are not invisible, patients are watching closely

  BMJ · 2025-08-22

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  The author and barrister John Mortimer once quipped that "no brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails." 1 I was reminded of this quote on a visit to my GP for a check-up.A medical student was present, and, when the doctor asked them to examine my cubical fossa, I noticed their long, dirty fingernails

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• The future of medicine lies in nurturing our “uniquely human” skills

  BMJ · 2024-09-05

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  future of medicine lies in nurturing our "uniquely human" skills As we come to rely on machines more in healthcare, the role of the doctor will need to fill those areas where machines are less proficient, writes

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Frequent coauthors

• Vivek Ghosal

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  18 shared

• Ioannis Lianos

  16 shared

• Roger D. Blair

  University of Florida

  14 shared

• Chirantan Chatterjee

  8 shared

• Thomas K. Cheng

  7 shared

• William E. Kovacic

  5 shared

• Maia Crook

  University of Florida

  5 shared

• D. Gordon Smith

  4 shared

Education

• LL.M, Law

  University of Wisconsin Madison

  2007

• JD, Law

  University of Chicago

  2001

• MSt., Modern History

  University of Oxford

  1997

• BA

  Amherst College

  1996

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