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19. Oktober 2022

Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

Competition and Mergers with Strategic Data Intermediaries

Termin

19. Oktober 2022
11:30 - 12:30
Room 3.3.002a-c

Sprecher*innen

Antoine Dubus, ETH Zürich

We analyze mergers between strategic data intermediaries collecting consumer information that they sell to firms competing in a product market. We show that a merger: (a) reduces the intensity of competition in the product market through a change in the selling strategies of merging intermediaries; (b) increases data collection, reducing consumer surplus through a better rent extraction. We argue that the role of Big Tech companies acting as strategic data intermediaries in the market for information should be included in antitrust analysis.

Joint work with David Bounie and Patrick Waelbroeck (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).

Speaker

Antoine Dubus, ETH Zürich

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