How to Measure Privacy-Related Consumer Harm in Merger Analysis? A Critical Reassessment of the EU Commissionns Merger Control in Data-Driven Markets

Deutscher, Elias

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3075200

“…The inexperience of European competition policy enforcers with paying-with-data business models and privacy-related issues shows in the Facebook/WhatsApp merger case (Deutscher 2017a(Deutscher , 2017b. In fact, the EC considered -next to platform effects -that access to personalized data represents a potential barrier to entry and, therefore, a potential source for market foreclosure as well as a potential cause for increasing market power.…”

Section: Economics Of Personalized Data In Current Eu Competition Policymentioning

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Competition policy reform in Europe and Germany – institutional change in the light of digitization

Budzinski

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Stöhr

²

2018

European Competition Journal

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The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition policy, which must consider the special economic characteristics of digital goods and markets. In Germany, national competition law was amended in 2017 in order to accommodate for digitization-driven changes in the economy and plans for further changes are already discussed. We review this institutional change from an economics perspective and argue that most of the reform's elements point into the right direction. However, some upcoming challenges may have been overlooked so far. Furthermore, we discuss whether European competition policy should follow the paragon of the German reform and amend its institutional framework accordingly. We find scope for reform particularly regarding data-driven markets, whereas platform economics appear to be already well-established.

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Data Monopoly and the Impact on Consumer Welfare

Ma

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2022

Regulating Data Monopolies

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Competition Policy Reform in Europe and Germany – Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization

Budzinski

¹

,

Stöhr

²

2018

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The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition policy, which must consider the special economic characteristics of digital goods and markets. In Germany, national competition law was amended in 2017 in order to accommodate for digitization-driven changes in the economy and plans for further changes are already discussed. We review this institutional change from an economics perspective and argue that most of the reform's elements point into the right direction. However, some upcoming challenges may have been overlooked so far. Furthermore, we discuss whether European competition policy should follow the paragon of the German reform and amend its institutional framework accordingly. We find scope for reform particularly regarding data-driven markets, whereas platform economics appear to be already well-established.

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How to Measure Privacy-Related Consumer Harm in Merger Analysis? A Critical Reassessment of the EU Commissionns Merger Control in Data-Driven Markets

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Competition policy reform in Europe and Germany – institutional change in the light of digitization

Competition policy reform in Europe and Germany – institutional change in the light of digitization

Data Monopoly and the Impact on Consumer Welfare

Competition Policy Reform in Europe and Germany – Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization

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