European Commission
Effective Enforcement Matters More Than New Rules in the EU’s Efforts to Regulate Gatekeeping Platforms
While the EU’s new Platform-to-Business Regulation went into effect on July 12, the European Commission is already gearing up to introduce two other, more...
Self-Favoring in the Digital Economy and the Role of Antitrust
At the moment, the strategy of the major tech platforms seems to be to deny any bias and malicious self-favoring. The facts, however, do...
How the European Commission Lost Its Tax Battle Against Ireland and Apple
Last month’s decision by Europe’s General Court to reject the European Commission’s attempt to recover €13 billion in back taxes from Apple was the...
The EU’s Attempt at Updating Antitrust Market Definition for the Digital Age
The rise of digital platforms has upended markets and the very act of market definition—the basic unit of antitrust analysis. With the review of...
Regulators Turn Their Attention Towards Apple’s Exploitation of App Developers. Now What?
Congress could level the playing field for independent app developers by looking to regulatory templates in music.
Last week, the European Commission announced it was...
At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?
Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users to app...
"The Lack of Competition Has Deprived American Workers of $1.25 Trillion of Income"
French economist Thomas Philippon, author of the recent The Great Reversal, explains how Europe got to be better at free markets than the US and how...
Did Facebook and Google “Blackmail” EU Experts to Avoid Discussing Their Market Power?
A new report by the journalist network Investigate Europe claims representatives of Facebook and Google pressured members of an EU working group on fake...
Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe´s Quest for a New Industrial Policy
Weakening competition policy in Europe risks creating monopolies rather than industrial champions.
An interventionist style of industrial policy, one that revolves around picking winners, has...
On the Economics of the Google Android Case
A general challenge facing competition authorities in the digital era is learning how to apply the traditional tools of competition policy in multi-sided platform...
