Becoming the DMA: The Parliament’s Compromise (For Now)
By: Philipp Bongartz (D'Kart)
Originally, the DMA was meant to create harmonised rules ensuring contestable and fair markets in the digital sector. Critics pointed to...
Intelligently Evolving Your Corporate Compliance Program
By: Michael S. Stanek, Sarah E. Walters, Martha K. Louks, Michelle Lowery & Katharine O'Connor (McDermott Will & Emery)
In June 2020, DOJ updated its guidance on the Evaluation of...
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
By: Cristina Caffarra & Johnny Ryan (Pro Market)
There is a market power crisis and a privacy crisis, and they compound each other. The collection...
CPI Blog o’ Blogs November 2012
November 2012, Volume 2, Number 11
Patents remains the hottest topic of the month, although the Europeans have also been quite active. Plus we have an...
Bringing the CMA’s Merger Assessment Guidelines up to Date
By: Alex Hazell & Rebecca Saunders (CMA)
On the 18 March, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) adopted revised guidelines on how it assesses mergers. The previous Merger Assessment...
Blog o’ Blogs May
Debates surrounding the theory and proper purpose of Antitrust continue around the world, with both debates and temperatures heating up in the Northern hemisphere...
How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech
By: Oles Andriychuk (Oxford Business Law Blog)
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party...
Blog o’ Blogs December 2014
December 2014, Volume 4, Number 12
The year ends with some of our old favorites—Google, pharm, cartel, and high-tech—but also with authorities sending confusing messages,...
Addressing Big Tech’s power over speech
By: Bill Baer & Caitlin Chin (Brookings Institution)
At many points during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, social media platforms demonstrated their power over speech. Twitter decided to...
COVID-19, Ghost Flights, and Emerging Property Rights in Airport Slots
Brent Skorup, Truth on the Market
One of the most visible economic effects of the COVID-19 spread is the decrease in airline customers. Alec Stapp...
