, tying and bundling). Implications and prospects for the development of better economics-grounded EC law and policy towards …

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 trading platform Amazon. Competitors and suppliers but also famous …

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 trading platform Amazon. Competitors and suppliers but also famous …

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the non-negative price constraint in the tied product market without inviting an … aggressive response as the rival firm faces the non-negative price constraint. We identify conditions under which tying in two …