Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare …. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact …, competitive pressure on markets may create strong incentives for unethical practices (like using child labor) to increase …

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare …. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact …, competitive pressure on markets may create strong incentives for unethical practices (like using child labor) to increase …

. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular … competition in platform markets. Second, we analyse competition policy issues and discuss how rules designed for standard markets …We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy …

There is a heated debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. However, it is a … challenging task to identify and measure moral behavior in markets. Based on a theoretical model, we examine in an experiment the … relation between trading volume, prices and moral behavior by setting up markets that either impose a negative externality on …