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 …

, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues - the European policy …

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 …

definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided …

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

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 …