Designing a Cooperation Framework for Regulating Competition in Digital Markets – Lessons from Transnational Merger Control

Competition agencies should build on the existing and successful case-by-case cooperation framework used in assessing mergers that are notified in multiple jurisdictions and develop similar working practices when regulating competition in digital markets. In merger control we see an example of cooperation, coordination, and convergence that serves to streamline individual enforcement efforts and the mutual trust that is thereby generated can spill-over into discussions about the shape of competi