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Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015

Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and …

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Antitrust in the Internet Era : The Legacy of United States v. A&P

Muris, Timothy J. - 2018

Critics from both the right and the left claim that modern antitrust doctrine, rooted in consumer welfare, is inadequate to handle the challenges of the twenty-first century economy. They express nostalgia for 1960s antitrust, when the field had no clear objectives and cases were decided on...

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The draft for the 10th amendment of German competition law: towards a new concept of "Outstanding relevance across markets"?

Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; Stöhr, Annika - 2020

The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...

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Antitrust failures : the internet giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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Antitrust for internet gianst

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James H. - 2018

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

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Microsoft, Google, and a New Era of Antitrust

Levin, Blair; Downes, Larry - 2023

The U.S. federal government has brought major antitrust cases against Microsoft and Google. Regulators likely don’t expect to win either case outright, but the government doesn’t need to win these cases for them to have an impact. For one, an aggressive litigation strategy can provide a...

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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market

Alleman, James H. - 2021

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...

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Google and the Limits of Antitrust : The Case Against the Antitrust Case Against Google

Manne, Geoffrey A.; Wright, Joshua D. - 2012

The antitrust landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade. Within the last two years alone, the United States Department of Justice has held hearings on the appropriate scope of Section 2, issued a comprehensive Report, and then repudiated it; and the European Commission has risen as...

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Applying (EU) competition law to online platforms : Reflections on the definition of the relevant market(s)

Mandrescu, Daniel - 2019

Future Art. 102 TFEU cases concerning online platforms will require revisiting the process of the market definition in light of the complexities that are likely to arise due to the two- or multi sided nature of such platforms. This distinctive nature will firstly require determining the number...

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Internet Retailing and ‘Free Riding’ : A Post-Leegin Antitrust Analysis

Lao, Marina - 2014

This article is adapted for the Journal of Internet Law from a more in-depth article that the author has published …: Resale Price Maintenance: The Internet Phenomenon and Free Rider Issues, 55 Antitrust Bulletin 473 (2010). It examines the … characteristics of the Internet, online retailing, and the issues they raise pertaining to the free rider justification. It argues …

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