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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
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There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...
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Digital markets have raised a number of new competition challenges. Ex-post competition policy appears not to be able … policy-makers, that ex-ante regulatory policies are needed to avoid competition being stifled in these markets, with a …
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In Japan, newspapers enjoy a special exemption from antimonopoly prohibitions against resale price maintenance (suppliers’ stipulations that bar downstream firms from price discounting), but are each required to set uniform prices throughout Japan. In fact, the newspapers have rarely changed...
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In its landmark ruling in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted standing to sue for recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to intermediaries lower in the chain of production and...
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and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy …
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and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy …
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The following is a compilation of short book reviews I have prepared over the past two years for the World Competition … comprehensive list of publications in the competition law field, but rather those works that crossed my desk and appealed to me … Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press 2012); 3) The Global Limits of Competition Law (edited by Ioannis Lianos …
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risks by raising prices, excluding competition for technology rights or downstream products, shielding weak patents and … organizations that may harm competition while also respecting the large benefits that these institutions can create for consumers …
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The Merger Guidelines released in March 2008 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provide a … identifies as potentially characterising mergers that reduce competition and harm consumer welfare. However, unlike the earlier …
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