Tag: Digital Markets
Regulating Africa’s Digital Markets: What to Do, and What Not to...
By Folakunmi Pinheiro1
I. Introduction
Earlier this year, the African Union passed the Protocol on Competition Policy to the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade...
EU’s General Court President Warns Against Strengthening The Digital Markets Act
According to Reuters, the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union anticipates facing legal challenges to the EU Digital Markets Act...
Brave New World?
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is expected soon to get new powers to regulate digital companies with Strategic Market Status (“SMS”). Once the...
Upping the “Ante” on Competition Regulation: Gambling with the Future of...
Policymakers, regulators, and commentators alike have criticized antitrust enforcers’ attempts at constraining “Big Tech” as excessively lenient and far too slow. This perceived failure,...
Beware Ex Ante Regulation: Introducing “Cut and Paste” Ex Ante Regulations...
This paper examines the international and Canadian debate around ex ante regulations for Big Tech platform companies. The paper explores the need for and...
Brussels Effect? Convergence and Divergence on Platform Regulation in Transatlantic Competition...
The merits of ex ante regulation have sparked intense debate on both sides of the Atlantic. But their potential challenge to consistent Transatlantic competition...
Regulatory Sandboxes: Ex Ante Regulation or Competition Policy?
This paper focuses on the relationship between EU Competition Law and ex ante regulation by specifically analyzing the case of regulatory sandboxes. It also...
The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA): A Competition Hand In A...
By Natalia Moreno Belloso & Nicolas Petit, European University Institute
The newly enacted Digital Markets Act (DMA) finds itself at a crossroads. The DMA can...
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...