How to address under-enforcement in digital markets?

Robert Ryan, James Rutt and Mike Walker

Chapter 6 in Research Handbook on Global Merger Control, 2023, pp 147-162 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We find that a reasonable reading of the available evidence indicates that there has been significant under-enforcement of merger control with respect to the digital platforms. We argue that this under-enforcement means that we should change the standard against which we assess whether such mergers are anti-competitive. We outline several possible ways in which the standard could be changed and highlight the importance of improving competition authorities’ treatment of uncertainty. Finally, we discuss the type of analysis that competition authorities should carry out in order to give themselves the best chance of getting merger control decisions right in the digital arena. We highlight the importance of asking the right questions about dynamic competition, rather than focusing on traditional static competition approaches.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800378193/9781800378193.00017.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20313_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().