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-emptive mergers. It argues the need to integrate privacy in any data-driven antitrust and merger practices as data imply necessarily … proposes new law and economics analysis for data-driven antitrust and merger practices. It considers debated topics related to … the integration of privacy in the assessment of antitrust and merger practices, algorithmic collusion and pre …
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There are legal grounds to hear competitors in merger control proceedings, and competitor involvement has gained significance. To what extent this is economically sensible is our question. The competition authority applies some welfare standard while the competitor cares about its own profit. In...
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Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression and the guidance of firms across the full spectrum of anti-competitive practices and market conduct. The role of guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly...
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platforms tend toward dominance in their immediately adjacent relevant-product markets. Google, for example, has long held a … majority share of the markets for general-search results and advertising, prompting antitrust and competition-law scrutiny of … its conduct.But some digital platforms also possess the ability and incentive to increase concentration in seemingly …
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conclusion is that calls for greater antitrust scrutiny of the data collection efforts of large online platforms are based on … referred to as “big data” — in particular data collected from users, leads to markets “tipping” to dominant online platforms … and, as a result, whether online markets merit earlier and more aggressive antitrust intervention. Concerns regarding the …
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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 …
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tools; and 4) deterrence of anti-competitive mergers. To infer the economic impact of the merger policy reform, we compare …
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policy enforcement deters anti-competitive mergers without over-deterring pro-competitive transactions. Yet, the policy shift …
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tools; and 4) deterrence of anti-competitive mergers. To infer the economic impact of the merger policy reform, we compare …
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