Digital Data, Platforms and the Usual [Antitrust] Suspects: Network Effects, Switching Costs, Essential Facility

Catherine Tucker ()
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Catherine Tucker: MIT Sloan School of Management

Review of Industrial Organization, 2019, vol. 54, issue 4, No 4, 683-694

Abstract: Abstract This paper asks whether the large amounts of digital data that are typically observed on large technology platforms—such as Google, Facebook, Uber and Amazon—typically give rise to structural conditions that would lead to antitrust concerns. In particular, I evaluate whether digital data augments or decreases concerns with regard to network effects and switching costs. I also evaluate whether data should be thought of as an ‘essential facility’.

Keywords: Platforms; Antitrust; Big data; Network effects; Switching costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-019-09693-7

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