In its Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission has rightly noted the importance of reducing the price paid for basic cross-border parcel delivery by consumers and by small and medium size retail senders. The payment flows for cross-border parcel delivery are strikingly similar to...

This report presents empirical evidence about the obstacles that European consumers face when trying to buy online goods and services in other EU Member States. It relies on data from a consumer survey carried out in February-March 2015 in the EU28. By comparing named websites with respondents'...

Advancements in information and communications technologies have changed the way individuals, firms, and nations create and exchange value across borders. Value comes in the form of goods, services, information, and data, but may also include talent, capital, ideas, and even culture. Southeast...

Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, intermediary liability exemptions were introduced to promote an emerging Internet market. Do safe harbours for online intermediaries still...

Schmidt-Kessen, Maria José, EU Digital Single Market Strategy, Digital Content and Geo- Blocking: Costs And Benefits Of Partitioning EU's Internal Market (January 6, 2019). The Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 2018

The ban of geo-blocking intervened in recent years within the borders of the European Union and it represents not only a control and even an elimination of the discrimination regarding the nationality of the customers on the on-line trade, but also a mean of gaining important economic benefits...

Data protection and potential rights to use data serve different purposes. Rights to use data can create a functioning market for data and so help building an information economy. It is at least worth considering the establishment of a right of the data producer. Preferably a uniform right...

Our submission to the U.K. House of Lords, Internal Market Sub-Committee is based on our joint research, which explores the effects Big Data and technology have on competition dynamics. It reviews the use of technology to facilitate collusion, conscious parallelism, and unilateral price...