When competition authorities struggle to assess abusive practices by online multi-sided platforms, the issue does not appear to be defining markets or determining market power; rather, the difficulty is finding a fitting theory of abuse. In the search for such theories, one candidate has been...

With a growing number of transactions available on the internet, the interconnection between regulatory issues creates unprecedented complexities for both transaction subjects and policymakers. Through the lens of Facilitation 2.0, it is possible to identify and target the development of...

Cryptocurrencies are based on cryptography-based asset disposals broadcasted peer-to-peer to be validated decentrally according to consensus mechanisms in compliance with consented protocols. Protocol development is associated with risks, and there are conflicts of interests. Collusion involving...

The global economy is being reshaped through the overt use of economic power. This marks a point of rupture with the geoeconomic framework of the postwar period, which was largely built on the legalistic rules-based system that grew up under and around the GATT/WTO. In this essay, I interpret...

The trade war between the United States and China is generating significant costs; it is rooted in the technological revolution based on big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, which create the grounds for strategic trade and investment policies and geostrategic rivalry; and...

The paper strives to systematise the debate on access to data from a competition policy angle. At the outset, two general policy approaches to access to data are distinguished: a “private control of data” approach versus an “open access” approach. We argue that, when it comes to private...

Italian Abstract: Lo Studio analizza il contesto giuridico entro il quale collocare il fenomeno FinTech in relazione all'economia dei dati, e in particolare nell'utilizzo di dati personali: traendo spunto dalla ‘tassonomia dei rischi' delineata nel primo Volume della Collana, si individuano i...

The global economic and political order is being reshaped by a perfect storm of frictions. Chief among them is the deterioration of relations between the great economic powers of the day, the United States, China and the European Union. This paper argues that only technological developments...

Online platforms, which are at the forefront of today's economy, are subject to intensive competition law enforcement. However, the platform business model presents challenges for the application of competition law. Most notably, they appear to offer consumers a great number of their products...

With the rise of internet marketing and e-commerce around the world, international and cross-border conflicts in trademark and unfair competition law have become increasingly important. In this groundbreaking work, Tim Dornis - who, in addition to his scholarly pursuits, has worked as an...