European Union
The Digital Markets Act Is More Intricate Than Regulators and Detractors Give It Credit For
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), designed to regulate Big Tech, supplements current antitrust laws that pursue case-by-case analyses of business conduct with general rules to block potentially anticompetitive behaviors. Detractors criticize the DMA for its lack of nuance. Supporters applaud its general principles as a necessary bulwark against Big Tech’s market powers, which current case-by-case analysis has been unable to rein in. However, neither side appreciates the true complexity of the DMA or how its principles interact to prevent anticompetitive behavior, writes Alba Ribera MartÃnez.
European Digital Platform Regulation Risks Undermining Itself with Over-Centralization
Recent European digital regulation surrenders traditional key guideposts of European competition law and policy. The over-centralization of European Union antitrust authority and EU legislation risks undermining member state laws and competences. This may privilege platforms and eventually harm competition and consumers, writes Jörg Hoffmann.
Study Shows Universal Bank Trades Are Informed by Private Commercial Borrower Information
New research by Rainer Haselmann, Christian Leuz, and Sebastian Schreiber finds evidence suggesting that German banks with commercial lending relationships improve their trading positions...
New Study Warns Antitrust Inaction May Lead To Acceptable Collusion for Public Policy Considerations
The modernization of EU antitrust laws muddied the water with regard to the ways that antitrust authorities and courts should handle situations in which...
The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants
If EU policymakers are truly concerned about restoring competitiveness to digital markets, they need to adjust their expectations when it comes to data access...
How Interest Groups Utilize Reverse Revolving Doors to Influence Legislative Voting
A new study finds that legislators who worked for interest groups before taking office influence the voting behavior of their colleagues when the motion...
European Union’s Plan to Protect Whistleblowers Continues to Face Obstacles
A little over a year ago, the EU adopted the Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, a first-of-its-kind...
Taming Big Tech: What Can We Expect From Germany’s New Antitrust Tool?
Targeted at Big Tech, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms rebalances the power between the competition watchdog and those firms.
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The Digital Markets Act Represents a Change in Europe’s Approach to Digital Gatekeepers
The Digital Markets Act is not a competition tool as such. Rather, it is a market regulation whose main objective is to guarantee equal...
What the Department of Justice Can Learn from the European Union’s Antitrust Investigations Into Google
The Department of Justice has opened antitrust investigations into Google's (alleged) attempt to monopolize online advertising. While the case recycles old grievances against Google,...
