By Jacqueline Yin (Project DisCo)
One year after the Commissioner Margrethe Vestager appointed academics to look at competition challenges in the digital space, their long-awaited policy recommendations were released on April 4, 2019. The report co-authored by Jacques Crémer, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, and Heike Schweitzer titled Competition Policy for the Digital Era (“the Crémer Report”) comes at a critical time when regulators around the world are grappling with how competition law should apply in the digital space.