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Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....
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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...
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The key argument of this contribution is that there is a case for harmonisation of the rules for online rating and review systems at the European level in order to create a level playing field for the collaborative economy. Following the model of the ‘new approach’ which has been efficient...
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Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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findings and their policy implications, particularly regarding competition and regulation in digital markets. These … contributions can inform policies, regulation, and enforcement choices in digital markets that involve services used daily by …
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hitherto most ambitious and broad regulatory project in the field of data and digital services regulation worldwide. While the … hybrid approach to specific regulation of gatekeeper platforms, which in substance makes perfect sense. The main desiderata … integration in competition law would allow to make use of the European Competition Network under EU Regulation 1/2003 to enforce …
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regulation of digital platforms. Ostensibly, the regulatory focus is about competition and potential concerns that traditional ex … what platform regulation might mean, and how to better frame and structure the nature of appropriate regulation. This … article first identifies a number of the different approaches to regulation that various jurisdictions have put forward, and …
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power and public policies: between antitrust and regulation. … value of information and individual privacy rights are examined to provide rationale for regulation and policy suggestions …
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(DMA), this book “Digital markets and online platforms: new perspectives on regulation and competition law“, presents CERRE …
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The Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) social network, this era's new communications service, plays an important role in the lives of 2+ billion people across the world. Though the market was highly competitive in the beginning, it has since consolidated in Facebook's favor. Today, using Facebook...
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