Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … market failure. We provide an economic analysis of these allegations based upon economic theory as well as publicly available …

definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided … quantifies that dominate internet platforms can create three major harms to consumers: - Increasing prices to consumers via added …

customers, recently platforms have come under antitrust scrutiny, with concerns ranging from data usage to retail competition …. We examine whether the mere adoption of fulfillment services offered by platforms affects competition in the upstream …