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-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …
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As technology and interconnectivity have continued to flourish, so too has an important and complex form of enterprise: the platform. Services like Uber, Google Search, Hulu, and American Express cater to distinct but deeply-interdependent “sides” of customers that derive value or revenues...
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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …
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the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI …, preventing mergers that would likely create the harms generated by the exercise of classical monopsony power should be an … enforcement should continue to use careful fact-based economic analysis to guide both enforcement and policy directed at mergers …
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This chapter sets out the principles and emerging practice governing cartel damages in the EU and UK. It identifies the types of damages available; the issue surrounding causation, pass-on, volume effects, and mitigation; and the methods that have been be used to estimate overcharges, volume...
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We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature witha view toward competition policy. First, we discuss to which extent competition canemerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular, we underlinethe role of dynamics, but also of platform...
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The next generation of e-commerce will be conducted by digital agents, based on algorithms that will not only make purchase recommendations, but will also predict what we want, make purchase decisions, negotiate and execute the transaction for the consumers, and even automatically form...
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network effects that have generated policy concerns particularly include the information and communications technology (ICT … communications and information technology industries. The debate over network effects is likely to have major consequences for these …
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It is a long-standing antitrust principle that agency relationships are exempt from price fixing violations. But the agency relationship must be "genuine." To discern genuine agency agreements, the prevailing approach adopted in both the United States and the EU focuses on whether the agent has...
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licensing. This price information — which is characterized as the “cost” of the patented input — would, under at least one … select it in lieu of some alternative standard. This exchange of information among horizontal competitors would occur … with both the body of economic research on bidder collusion and with the antitrust jurisprudence on information exchange …
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