This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis …-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …

-emptive mergers. It argues the need to integrate privacy in any data-driven antitrust and merger practices as data imply necessarily … proposes new law and economics analysis for data-driven antitrust and merger practices. It considers debated topics related to … the integration of privacy in the assessment of antitrust and merger practices, algorithmic collusion and pre …

Antitrust remedies are a central part of the competition policy toolbox. Their actual use and design depends on … interrelated factors such as the Antitrust Authority's analytical capabilities, institutional design and bargaining power … provides a rationale for the principles and policies’ choices of the Brazilian Antitrust Authority, CADE, on remedies over the …

platforms tend toward dominance in their immediately adjacent relevant-product markets. Google, for example, has long held a … majority share of the markets for general-search results and advertising, prompting antitrust and competition-law scrutiny of … its conduct.But some digital platforms also possess the ability and incentive to increase concentration in seemingly …

platforms compete—is the need to get both sides on board. The platform cannot operate successfully without a critical mass of … users on both sides, which is often challenging. Platform economics has important implications for antitrust policy, as the …-sided markets. But the Supreme Court is poised to bring platform competition to antitrust's frontier, as its impending decision in …

addition, these platforms have not taken significant measures to address "fake-news", bots, trolls, or other malicious software …