The DMA is unlikely to significantly change abuse of dominance enforcement by the European Commission and by NCAs since the vast majority of abuse of dominance cases do not concern gatekeepers of core platform services and, even some cases that do, do not concern the obligations and prohibitions...

We examine how the Mapai-Right Liberal rift shaped Israel's first Antitrust Law (1959). We document the protracted political debate regarding the proposed Law, which lasted from March 1950 until August 1959. While Mapai feared that the private sector would collude against consumer interests, the...

This research uses event study methodology applied to stock market data to measure the impact of competition law enforcement on share values. It addresses the gap in knowledge of how the impact of law enforcement can be measured and quality of present law evaluated. To address this gap also...

Enforcement of competition/antitrust laws regarding the exercise of market power in respect of upstream markets (monopsony/oligopsony power) has been inconsistent in both Canada and the United States. This paper provides an overview of the competition/antitrust laws in Canada and the United...

A crucial area of complementarity between competition and data protection law regimes is ensuring greater data mobility through data portability, interoperability, and open data standards in digital markets. The paper discusses how antitrust agencies would evaluate dominant platforms’...

The European Commission's recent draft Notice describes the use of supply-side substitution factors in defining relevant markets for the application of competition law. Expanding a defined market to include goods not substitutable on the demand side, based on the competitive strength of a broad...

The European Commission is charged with implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will impose a list of 22 do and don't to Big Tech platforms in March 2024. Based on economic and legal reasoning, this paper asks how the Commission can fulfil this challenging task effectively. The paper...

China's revised Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) went into effect in August 2022. In November, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) requested comments on its draft provisions for applying the AML in civil disputes. The Global Antitrust Institute's comment discusses the importance of the AML's newly expressed...

The paper offers a reasoned and up-to-date reconstruction of the competition law enforcement system in the EU. It aims to explain what the architecture of competition law enforcement in the EU is, what the main achievements of the system are, as well as the challenges still threatening...

The regulation of digital platforms is frequently framed as a legal and institutional trade-off. Should policy makers “regulate” or should they “break-up” Big Tech? Should they decentralize digital power or should they transform companies like Google into accountable bottlenecks? These...