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Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay : is the internet driving competition or market monopolization?
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2013
This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction platforms, and social networks. Given the high level...
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The internet economy : regulatory challenges and practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2014
The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper functioning over the long run is therefore crucial for economic growth and people’s wellbeing more generally. The success of the Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464865
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Developing International Perspectives on Digital Competition Policy
Ennis, Sean F. - 2020
from the EC, UK and US. These offer similar diagnoses of the underlying economic drivers of competition concerns in digital … reports exhibit notable differences in respect to their specific policy recommendations. For example, the UK and US experts … dominance, albeit in specified circumstances only, whereas the UK experts do not recommend this. This paper focuses on such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838182
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The New Transnational Payments Law and Global Consumer Trade : Online Platforms as Providers of Private Legal Orders
Janczuk-Gorywoda, Agnieszka - 2016
This article uses the example of one of the best-known global payment systems provided by an online platform, PayPal, to analyze the role of private legal orders in creating new markets beyond jurisdictional borders. It shows that a relatively uniform legal order reduces risks involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002913
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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?
Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2021
The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of so-called gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652861
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Digital trade : developing a framework for analysis
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes - 2017
This paper explores the definition, measurement, and policy implications of digital trade, proposing a tentative typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and how we trade: from digital delivery to greater physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695418
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The Evolution of Price Dispersion in Internet Retail Markets
Pan, Xing; Ratchford, Brian T.; Shankar, Venkatesh - 2014
We investigate how online price dispersion has evolved since the bursting of the Internet bubble by comparing price dispersion levels in years 2000, 2001, and 2003 and between multi-channel and pure play e-tailers. The results show that although online price dispersion declined between 2000 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029806
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The Evolution of Price Dispersion in Internet Retail Markets
Pan, Xing; Ratchford, Brian T.; Shankar, Venkatesh - 2014
We investigate how online price dispersion has evolved since the bursting of the Internet bubble by comparing price dispersion levels in years 2000, 2001, and 2003 and between multi-channel and pure play e-tailers. The results show that, although online price dispersion declined between 2000 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029846
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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?
Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2022 - Updated October 2022 with the final DMA
The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of socalled gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407158
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Regulating Big Tech : From Competition Policy to Sector Regulation? (Updated October 2022 with the Final DMA)
Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2022
The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of so called gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243667