policy circles are starting to focus on how this phenomenon should factor into the competition policy framework itself. While … big data can enhance competition, improve product offerings, and create a marketplace where resources are allocated more … efficiently, the Chapter argues that competition policy designers and enforcers are bound to deal with unprecedented data …

the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead … interest. One of recent cases is the investigation of Facebook's data collection practices by German competition authorities …

data-driven business strategies and mergers raise significant implications for privacy, consumer protection and competition … law. At the same time, European and United States' competition authorities are beginning to consider the implications of a … data-driven economy on competition policy. In 2015, the European Commission launched a competition inquiry into the e …

context provide a template for how competition authorities, courts, and academics should frame such issues …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …

Under EU competition law it is prohibited to conclude anti-competitive agreements. If found, such conduct warrants … restrictive agreements and practices under EU competition law …

decision to host a conference in Brussels in January 2019 on “Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation”, seeks to … by digital platforms are multi-fold and complex, the goal of competition authorities should be to protect innovation … offered for free, competition is based on quality, but also very largely on innovation. Thus, consumer welfare is served by …

majority share of the markets for general-search results and advertising, prompting antitrust and competition-law scrutiny of …. This type of steering forecloses competition in markets not immediately adjacent to the platform itself. Current antitrust …