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Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and …
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This article is adapted for the Journal of Internet Law from a more in-depth article that the author has published …: Resale Price Maintenance: The Internet Phenomenon and Free Rider Issues, 55 Antitrust Bulletin 473 (2010). It examines the … characteristics of the Internet, online retailing, and the issues they raise pertaining to the free rider justification. It argues …
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While the various initiatives in several jurisdictions to impose ex ante regulation on “digital gatekeepers” – i.e., large online platforms that are necessary intermediaries between business users and their customers, and which are typically protected by high barriers to entry – have...
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Should the FTC have allowed Zillow to acquire its foremost rival, Trulia? It is increasingly well-accepted that digital 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...
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Antitrust issues in the digital economy, especially those concerning big data and algorithms, have attracted the attention of both scholars and practitioners all around the world. Against the backdrop of rapid development of China's digital economy, many online platforms now have a largely data-...
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The regulation of digital platforms is frequently framed as a legal and institutional trade-off. Should policy makers “regulate” or should they “break-up” Big Tech? Should they decentralize digital power or should they transform companies like Google into accountable bottlenecks? These...
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"Multi-sided platform markets characterized by network externalities have always existed as an economic paradigm, but in different technological forms.1 The old village market place, physical shopping malls, or any traditional fair can be seen as multi-sided platform markets connecting buyers...
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