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Parker, Geoffrey; Petropoulos, Georgios; Van Alstyne, … - 2020

Digital platforms are at the heart of online economic activity, connecting multi-sided markets of producers and consumers of various goods and services. Their market power and their privileged ecosystem positions raise concerns that they may engage in anti-competitive practices that reduce...

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Google, in the Aftermath of Microsoft and Intel : The Right Approach to Antitrust Enforcement in Innovative High Tech Platform Markets?

Diez, Fernando - 2012

Antitrust enforcement efforts both in Europe and the United States have recently increased in number of actions taken and the amount of fines imposed in high-tech industries. Recent decisions in this field have rekindled in-depth and largely unresolved debates concerning the appropriate role of...

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Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, digital platforms, and competition policies in Asia

Izumi, Atsuko; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Watanabe, Yasutora; … - 2023

In this paper, we review the overall micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise landscape in Asia, including the challenges and constraints faced by enterprises in physical (offline) and online markets. We then explore the unique circumstances and externalities that arise due to the special...

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Is Amazon the next Google?

Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015

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...

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The calling card of Russian digital antitrust

Pavlova, Natalia; Šastitko, Andrej E.; Kurdin, Aleksandr - In: Russian journal of economics 6 (2020) 3, pp. 258-276

Digital antitrust is at the forefront of all expert discussions and is far from becoming an area of consensus among researchers. Moreover, the prescriptions for developed countries do not fit well the situation in developing countries, and namely in BRICS: where the violator of antitrust laws is...

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Algorithmic Price Discrimination on Online Platforms and Antitrust Enforcement in China’s Digital Economy

Han, Wei - 2018

attention of both scholars and practitioners all around the world. Against the backdrop of rapid development of China's digital … against the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China (AML), and ought to be investigated accordingly. This article … structure the analysis, taking into consideration the unique characteristics of China's digital economy and at the same time …

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The Competition Economics of Digital Platforms

Veljanovski, Cento - 2021

This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...

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Testimony on 'Competition in Digital Technology Markets : Examining Acquisitions of Nascent or Potential Competitors by Digital Platform' before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ant...

Yun, John M. - 2019

Is there a problem with large technology firms, or platforms, purchasing nascent competitors and suppressing competition before they can mature into vibrant competitors? Further, if there is a problem, are the current antitrust laws and the enforcement of those laws sufficient to combat the...

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Enforcing Copyright Through Antitrust? A Transatlantic View of the Strange Case of News Publishers Against Digital Platforms

Colangelo, Giuseppe - 2021

The emergence of the multi-sided platform business model has had a profound impact on the news publishing industry. By acting as gatekeepers to news traffic, large online platforms have become unavoidable trading partners for news businesses, and exert substantial bargaining power in their...

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Antitrust Analysis of Two-Sided Platforms after AmEx : A Transatlantic View

Borgogno, Oscar - 2019

The US Supreme Court ruling in American Express marks a breakthrough for antitrust enforcement in two-sided markets. Not surprisingly, the ruling has sparked lively discussions in the antitrust law and economics community.The majority of the Court argues that if both groups of players are needed...

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