Tag: Interoperability

The EU Digital Markets Act purports to benefit consumers and improve the competitiveness of digital markets. It is likely to have negative and unaddressed...

Like the early Internet, blockchain and Web3 applications promise a new wave of decentralization and competition – yet at the same time, it is...

By Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania) Compelled interoperability can be a useful remedy for dominant firms, including large digital platforms, who violate the antitrust laws....

By Dan Awrey (Cornell Law School) & Joshua Macey (University of Chicago) In markets with significant scale economies and network effects, scholars and policymakers...

Dear Readers, Interoperability has long been a controversial issue in antitrust law and related regulatory disciplines. The concept refers, essentially, to the ability for systems controlled...

In this paper we assess the potential effects of recent proposals to mandate interoperability as a competition remedy for digital platforms. We find that...

The Sherman Act and related antitrust jurisprudence have proven flexible and capable of balancing competitive effects of virtually any kind of concerted conduct among...

As the concepts of network effects, tipping, and lock-in have grown in importance with the rise, growth, and current ubiquity of platforms, data analytics,...

As the world increasingly considers antitrust as a tool for governing and shaping large internet companies, we ask whether traditional antitrust analysis and remedies...

The persistent dominance of Facebook has led many scholars and policymakers to generate proposals to invigorate competition in social networking. In this piece we...