Data sharing presents many opportunities in terms of stimulating innovation and creating a level playing field between businesses, but also carries risks by potentially decreasing incentives for data collection and analysis, facilitating collusion between firms or exploiting consumers as well as...

Whether to continue relying on existing competition rules in the digital sector, or instead seek new competences and dedicated legislation, is the question for competition authorities in Europe. Several prominent reports (some at the request of those authorities) have posited this as the natural...

This paper presents a legal and economic analysis of business-to-business (B2B) data markets. It starts from the economic characteristics of data and explores to what extent private B2B data markets result in a socially optimal degree of data sharing, or whether there are market failures in data...

With this submission, we would like to take the opportunity to submit feedback, in our personal capacity as researchers, to the European Commission's Proposal on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union (‘the proposal').Our submission aims to raise two main...

Digitale Plattformen sind auf vielen Märkten aktiv und spielen deshalb auch bei Innovationen eine entscheidende Rolle. Sie selbst bringen Innovationen hervor, können aber auch bei den Plattformnutzern und anderen Akteuren des Plattformökosystems Innovationen incentivieren. Plattformen...

The European Data Economy initiative is built on the belief that the current regulatory environment is not adequate in order to unleash the potential of such data-driven economy. The initiative focuses on so-called ‘non-personal data' as a way to complement data protection rules that regulate...

Differentiated treatment is a key focus in current competition investigations of the European Commission and national competition authorities, ranging from more prominent placement of one's own services in a ranking to preferential access to data and the favoring of businesses that pay higher...