The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition...

Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate is already on the horizon - the ubiquitous online...

Die 10. Novelle des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen ('GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz') soll die deutschen Wettbewerbsregeln so reformieren, dass sie einen geeigneten Ordnungsrahmen für eine zunehmend digitalisierte Wirtschaft darstellen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag diskutieren wir den...

The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...

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This paper studies how to calculate the propensity of individuals to participate in e-commerce, studying the variables that affect costumers at the time of the online transactions and how to modify their inclination to it, being the most relevant variables socioeconomic and those which are...

The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...

Digitale Großkonzerne wie Facebook, Google & Co. stellen die Wettbewerbsinstitutionen vor neue Herausforderungen. Mithilfe der Charakteristiken von Plattformmärkten können sie ihre Macht und Verhandlungsstärke zunehmend verfestigen und darüber hinaus marktübergreifende digitale Ökosysteme...

This study aims to understand the linkages between demographic dividends, digital innovation, and economic growth, using Bangladesh as a case study. It adopts a three-stage least squares (3SLS) model to explore how and to what extent the digitization and demographic transition lead towards...

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...