{"title":"Interplay between Amazon store and logistics","authors":"Patrick Andreoli-Versbach, Joshua Gans","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2312494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2312494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"29 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of search engine data sharing on competition and consumer welfare","authors":"Bertin Martens","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2313399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2313399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"372 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139837076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of search engine data sharing on competition and consumer welfare","authors":"Bertin Martens","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2313399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2313399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"1 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139777340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new regulation of telecommunications. The single voice of the European and national decision maker","authors":"Francesca Niola","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2313397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2313397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"10 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139864649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new regulation of telecommunications. The single voice of the European and national decision maker","authors":"Francesca Niola","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2313397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2313397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139804781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital merger control: adapting theories of harm","authors":"Viktoria H. S. E. Robertson","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2024.2307163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2024.2307163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"69 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140470888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attacking concentration: market power in the digital space","authors":"Rhonda Smith, Deborah Healey","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2023.2280328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2023.2280328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"78 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139247105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmasking excessive pricing: evolution of EU law on excessive pricing from United Brands to Aspen","authors":"Miroslava Marinova","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2023.2280329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2023.2280329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiplicity of tools for antitrust and consumer protection in digital markets: the Italian experience and the road ahead","authors":"Clara Calini, Elisabetta Iossa","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2023.2280325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2023.2280325","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article discusses the role of national competition authorities in the digital sector in the lights of new legislative initiatives in Europe. It argues that the availability of multiple tools offers new opportunities to balance objectives such as flexibility, harmonization, timeliness and legal certainty, helping to enhance effectiveness. Further, it discusses the recent enforcement experience of the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), which has the dual mandate to enforce competition and consumer protection rules in Italy. The AGCM has used antitrust tools to empower consumers with choice, through a number of landmark digital cases on issues related to access and visibility in online marketplaces, refusal to deal and interoperability, data value and portability, privacy and advertising, and unfair negotiations. The AGCM has used consumer protection tools to guide consumers in the selection process, concluding numerous digital investigations on online architecture, misleading information, dark patterns and choice pressure. AcknowledgementsWe wish to thank Andrea Pezzoli, Luigi Di Gaetano, Francesca Mattonai and Alessandra Catenazzo for their helpful comments. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Italian Competition Authority.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Cf. Compendium of Approaches to Improving Competition in Digital Markets (G7 Germany 2022) 7–10; Regulation n. 1925/2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act), recitals 2–4. For further discussion, see F Jenny, Competition Law and Digital Ecosystems: Learning to Walk Before We Run (4 April 2021) <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3776274>.2 Cf. OECD, Interactions Between Competition Authorities and Sectoral Regulators – Contribution from the European Union (16 November 2022).3 Stigler Committee on Digital Platform (Final Report 2019) <https://www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/research/stigler/pdfs/digital-platforms---committee-report---stigler-center.pdf>; see also, e.g. T Tombal, ‘Ensuring Contestability and Fairness in Digital Markets Through Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of the EU, UK and US Approaches’ (2022) 18 European Competition Journal.4 To speed up the process, the first round of gatekeepers will be identified on the basis of quantitative presumptions listed in article 3(2) DMA.5 C Carugati, ‘How the European Union Can Best Apply the Digital Markets Act’ Bruegel Blog (4 October 2022).6 The joint declaration of European competition authorities emphasises that NCAs maintain a crucial role in ex post enforcement and also in the implementation of the DMA, to help determining whether a specific behaviour by a gatekeeper constitutes a violation of one of the provisions of articles 5 and 6 DMA, in complex and dynamic digital markets. The paper also makes the case that, while th","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":" 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135292363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital dominance: assessing market definition and market power for online platforms under Article 102 TFEU","authors":"Tone Knapstad","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2023.2280334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2023.2280334","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional, price-focused antitrust tools for assessing dominance under Article 102 TFEU and merger control are challenged by the business models and features of multisided digital platforms. This article demonstrates the importance of data in digital markets and how data enable the utilization of network effects and economies of scale in a manner that challenges the traditional dominance evaluation. Based on this, the article systematizes the solutions to the challenges caused by decreased accuracy of price-based tools through an analysis of various approaches to the issue. It is argued that potential competition should be emphasized more strongly throughout the dominance assessment and that different approaches can be chosen based on the case at hand. Thus the article contributes to the development of the dominance analysis for digital markets with a thorough overview of possible solutions and ties it to the proposed renewal of the Market Definition Notice.","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"24 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135391453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}