Tag: Barrier to Entry
Identifying Barriers to Entry: A South African Perspective
By Willem H. Boshoff1
Abstract:
Barriers to entry are now a core concern of South African competition policy. Conventionally, entry barriers represent one factor relevant to...
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 barrier to...
Can Digital Data be Replaced? Data Substitutability is the Key
The question of whether digital data constitute a barrier to entry or an essential facility does not admit a “one-size-fits-all” answer: only a case-by-case...
US: 11 banks must face class action
On July 28, US District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan ruled that 11 of the 12 banks named in a lawsuit must defend against...
Can Big Data Protect A Firm From Competition?
By Anja Lambrecht & Catherine E. Tucker -
This article looks at big data through the lens of a classic framework called the “resource-based view...
Big Data, Privacy And Competition Law: Do Competition Authorities Know How...
By Alfonso Lamadrid & Sam Villiers -
According to Prof. Dan Ariely “Big data is like teenage sex; everyone talks about it, nobody really knows...
Competition Policy in Consumer Financial Services: The Disparate Regulation of Online...
Thomas P. Brown and Molly E. Swartz, March 20, 2016
In October 2014, Washington D.C. City Council passed legislation that effectively allowed Uber to operate...
A Hard Landing in the Soft Drink Market ”MOFCOM’s Veto of...
Fei Deng, Adrian Emch, Gregory Leonard, Apr 30, 2009
On March 18, 2009, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued its decision to block the proposed...
Let the Right “One” Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics...
Glen Weyl, Alexander White, Jan 30, 2015
Many of the leading controversies in competition policy in the last two decades, especially those surrounding the Microsoft...
Designing Competition Law Under Financial Crisis—Indonesia and Thailand Compared
R. Ian McEwin, Sep 11, 2014
The 1997 the Asian Financial Crisis was the impetus for the introduction of competition law in both Indonesia and...
