Competition and consumer policy in digital markets

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No 332, OECD Roundtables on Competition Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Digital markets have profoundly transformed the way consumers interact with businesses, offering new opportunities for innovative goods and services, greater choice, and enhanced convenience. These evolving dynamics create new challenges for both competition and consumer protection authorities, as practices that impact competition may also have an effect on consumer autonomy and choice, privacy, as well as trust, and vice versa. Traditional analytical frameworks based on price, output, information and transparency often fail to capture the full competition and consumer implications of conduct in digital environments. This note examines areas where the two policy areas converge, where gaps remain and how authorities can work together to address challenges arising from digitalisation.

JEL-codes: D12 D18 K21 L13 L40 L41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05-28
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