Tag: Digital Markets
Adapting Merger Guidelines to a Digital Environment
Contemporary merger guidelines are heavily dependent on empirical observations of past and present markets. This feature makes the guidelines inadequate for addressing market power...
Digital Nudging: Potential and Pitfalls
Digital nudges — that is, significantly behavioral interventions that use software and its user-interface design elements — are an increasingly pervasive feature of online...
Online Choice Architecture: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated
Online choice architecture (“OCA”) encompasses the set of design features that impact choice in digital environments. From default settings and notifications to personalization and...
DOJ & FTC Meet With Other Enforcers On Digital Markets
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan participated in a G7 Joint Competition...
Antitrust Chronicle® – Cooperation on Digital Competition: Principles and Practice
Letter from the Editor, by Assimakis Komninos
Dear Readers,
The advent of ex ante rules to deal with digital platforms – whether we call them “regulation”...
International Competition Cooperation: Are There Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen?
International cooperation on competition issues among agencies and governments can be great for consumers and companies alike, avoiding a host of inefficient and potentially...
Cooperation on Digital Competition: From Cooperation to Enhanced Cooperation
Cooperation agreements establishing the possibility of an exchange of information between competition authorities are in general based on two hypotheses. First, they assume that...
Proposals for International Cooperation for Competition in Digital Markets
Some countries have called for several years for international cooperation for competition in digital markets. Yet the declarations are political without concrete policy proposals...
Designing a Cooperation Framework for Regulating Competition in Digital Markets –...
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...
International Co-Operation Fixing Problems in Digital Markets
A new sense of urgency and purpose has enlivened our international conversations about digital platforms, stimulating unprecedented levels of co-operation between competition and consumer...
