This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...
In the opening session of the BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2019, Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona), Jonathan Baker (American University), and Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University) discussed the global rise of concentration, profits, mark-ups and market power across many markets and industries, the possible explanations for rising mark-ups and concentration and the role of...
Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago, information technology is enabling consumers globally. Uncountable services make use of a...
Was haben Wettbewerbspolitik und Produktivität miteinander zu tun? Dieser Frage ist der Industrieökonom Tomaso Duso nachgegangen. Je besser der Wettbewerb funktioniert, desto höher die Produktivität - das könnte man auf den ersten Blick meinen. Aber ganz so einfach ist es dann doch nicht. Denn die Probleme liegen wie so oft im Detail. Tomaso Duso hat sie sich angeschaut...