Tag: Digital Markets

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...

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...

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...

Policymakers, regulators, and commentators alike have criticized antitrust enforcers’ attempts at constraining “Big Tech” as excessively lenient and far too slow. This perceived failure,...

This paper examines the international and Canadian debate around ex ante regulations for Big Tech platform companies. The paper explores the need for and...

The merits of ex ante regulation have sparked intense debate on both sides of the Atlantic. But their potential challenge to consistent Transatlantic competition...

This paper focuses on the relationship between EU Competition Law and ex ante regulation by specifically analyzing the case of regulatory sandboxes. It also...

By Natalia Moreno Belloso & Nicolas Petit, European University Institute The newly enacted Digital Markets Act (DMA) finds itself at a crossroads. The DMA can...

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's competition regulator has appointed specialists in Big Tech and online competition to to help it work through the dominance of some of the...