market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … effective in markets driven by network effects unless it is combined with a proper (ex-ante) regulatory framework. Antitrust …

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been … ignored by this narrow criterion. This analysis indicates that antitrust action is long overdue after considering two …

for higher probabilities of social harm. Patent and antitrust policies act as substitutes in our setting; additional room …

dynamics affect the outcome of antitrust enforcement in China. It has two major findings. First, bureaucratic politics have a … that antitrust enforcement in China is a highly pluralistic process involving officials from various central ministries and …

Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up …

undermine the intended stringency of the regulation and its overall chances of making digital markets systemically more …

gatekeepers, the “tipping” of markets and the rise of further gatekeepers is not guaranteed by the proposed regulation, this in …