Tag: Digital Markets
Upward Pricing Pressure from Digital Platforms’ Imposition of Take Rates on...
The vertical relationship between digital platforms and the app developers that ply their wares on such marketplaces (e.g. App Store, Play Store, Oculus Store)...
UK Regulator Appoints Specialists To Tackle Digital Markets
UK's competition regulator has appointed specialists in Big Tech and online competition to to help it work through the dominance of some of the...
Indian Parliament Pushes for Ex Ante Rules on Digital Competition
By Geeta Gouri & Swarnim Shrivastava1
With new tech antitrust bills being tabled in the United States and legislations to regulate digital markets coming in...
Advocates of Friendshoring Have Not Reckoned with Digital Trade
By: Hector Torres (Center for International Governance Innovation)
Geopolitical tensions have exposed the risk of over-reliance on certain markets. Liberal democracies are reassessing whether free...
The Impact of Economic Analysis on Market Definition in the Context...
While advances in economic theory, econometrics and data availability have helped antitrust authorities to fine-tune their approach to market definition in traditional brick and...
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...
