Tag: Digital Markets

Cooperation agreements establishing the possibility of an exchange of information between competition authorities are in general based on two hypotheses. First, they assume that...

Some countries have called for several years for international cooperation for competition in digital markets. Yet the declarations are political without concrete policy proposals...

Competition agencies should build on the existing and successful case-by-case cooperation framework used in assessing mergers that are notified in multiple jurisdictions and develop...

A new sense of urgency and purpose has enlivened our international conversations about digital platforms, stimulating unprecedented levels of co-operation between competition and consumer...

On June 1, 2022, the European Commission's new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation ("VBER") and its accompanying guidelines (the "Guidelines") came into force.  The VBER...

By: Andreas Schuler (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) The German government published the second draft of its long-awaited Digital Strategy on 18 August 2022. As a combined project of...

By Manuel Wörsdörfer (University of Maine) The E.U. is shortly before implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to regulate digital markets and (ideally)...

Melbourne Law School

Silicon Valley’s genius combined with limited regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs would fuel unprecedented job growth, improve overall...

The well-known economic principle that “there is no such thing as a free lunch” ("NFLP") has enjoyed a recent revival in the assessment of...