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economic issues of competition on dominant platforms, using Amazon as a case study. The paper examines the role of dominant … recommendations to adapt competition law to the challenges of the digital economy …
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digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and … convinced that these steps are necessary to move towards a more effective competition policy towards abuse of digital dominance. …
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. Although Amazon has been subject to some antitrust investigations, competition law still has not fully grappled with the … of competition law is to protect a competitive market structure. Such a stance is closer to the approach taken in the EU … and the UK’s forthcoming Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and tighter merger control) and ex post …
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effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control … regimes and recently a number of European politicians have called for more elbowroom for non-competition … non-market in the sense that these goals stand in conflict with competition. However, a trade-off between effective …
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The objectives of competition policy and the application of competition law need defining and redefining along with … changing structures of the economy and the maturing of the competition authority. Market structures associated with digital … product markets. Antitrust interventions by the competition authorities are caught in a bind as was the case with the …
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With e-commerce having accelerated over recent years, retailing has changed significantly. Manufacturers and retailers have established multichannel (offline/online) strategies within which pricing restraints often constitute a central element. Behind these strategies sits the firms' ambition to...
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Online platforms often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the full removal of Price Parity Clauses in France in 2015 for hotels listed on Booking.com. Our analysis reveals significant...
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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 …
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