general, an active competition policy is recommendable in order to keep markets open for further competition and innovation …

emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two … digital goods and markets. In Germany, national competition law was amended in 2017 in order to accommodate for digitization …

While digital platforms have intensifi ed competition in many markets, there is also a higher risk of market …

digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and … convinced that these steps are necessary to move towards a more effective competition policy towards abuse of digital dominance. …

make competition rules fit for the digital age. This article provides an overview on the relevant changes in German …, in particular in relation to data-based online markets and to powerful digital platforms. However, in other areas, the …

business models of the digital economy and how this is likely to pose substantive challenges to EU competition law. After sixty …

the merits on any particular allegation, but instead explores how to address innovation-based theories of harm caused by …-enforcement of monopsony-based theories of harm. As we argue below, innovation harms are beyond the scope of the CW standard and the … capability of antitrust courts; to protect innovation, we need a new regulatory tool. Monopsony harms, another critical gap in …

to challenge then. Mergers present a complex mix of potential costs and benefits. The antitrust laws empower enforcement … mergers are consummated in hopes of securing more favorable litigation burdens years later …

potential competition mergers is ill-equipped to address tech mergers. We contend that the Chicago School's assumptions and … policy prescriptions hobbled antitrust law and policy on potential competition mergers. We illustrate this problem with the … this paper). Many antitrust commentators have focused on the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions as cases of mergers that …