Tag: Big Data
Antitrust Regulation in the Digital Economy
I distinguish between data-based digital antitrust cases and non data-based cases. So far, the emphasis has been on traditional cases where data...
Revising the Competition Law Rulebook for Digital Markets in Europe: A...
By Kris Van Hove & Argyrios Papaefthymiou1
Introduction
It is a truism to say that digitalisation has brought with it a revolution in economic life and...
What next for Monsanto? Exploring a Competition Theory for IP and...
By Swarnim Shrivastava (Global Antitrust Institute)1
Monsanto’s battle over licensing its technology to India’s seed manufacturers resurfaced recently when the Delhi High Court held that...
Algorithms & Competition Law
This article considers how algorithms affect competition and what their implications are for competition policy. With the economy going digital a huge...
Digital Platforms and Self-Preferencing
Due to their global economic significance and their attitude to concentrating economic power, digital platforms have triggered an unprecedented competition policy debate,...
Amazon’s tightrope: Balancing Innovation and competition on Amazon’s Marketplace
Sam Bowman (Truth on the Market)
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon employees have been using data from individual sellers...
Antitrust Regulation in the Digital Economy: Industry Developments and the Amendment...
By Chenying Zhang
Internet applications are becoming increasingly widespread, Internet-based trading platforms and associated big data have gradually developed....
CPI Talks… with Paul Gilbert & Maurits Dolmans
In this month’s edition of CPI Talks we have the pleasure of speaking with Paul Gilbert and Maurits Dolmans, of the London...
Essential Facilities Fallacy: Big Tech, Winner-Take-All Markets, and Anticompetitive Effects
There have been calls to treat data as an essential facility to reduce barriers to entry in the digital economy where a...
The Impulse to Condemn the Strange: Assessing Big Data in Antitrust
In current antitrust policy debates, it is almost a foregone conclusion that digital platforms’ collection and use of “big data” is a...
