This paper deals with the question what the relationship is between consumer activity and non-competitive market outcomes in deregulated markets. These market failures could be the result of bad regulation, bad competition law enforcement or insufficient consumer activity. The different causes...

The government proposes to give a new Digital Markets Unit (DMU) powers to regulate firms in digital markets. This new ex ante regulatory approach is designed to overcome the claimed inadequacies of existing competition law to regulate the digital sector yet will be housed in the Competition and...