The advance of digital technology is changing the nature of markets, enhancing the capacity of corporations to extract more consumers' surplus and lower the wages paid to workers. The rise of new technology has also diminished the efficacy of traditional laws to regulate firms and corporations....

"Technical standards are ubiquitous in the modern networked economy. They allow products made and sold by different vendors to interoperate with little to no consumer effort and enable new market entrants to innovate on top of established technology platforms. This groundbreaking volume, edited...

"Laws prohibiting unilateral anticompetitive conduct have been the subject of vigorous international debate for decades, as policymakers, antitrust scholars and agencies continue to disagree over how best to regulate the market conduct of a single firm with substantial market power. Katharine...

Die vorliegende Arbeit will einen ökonomischen Beitrag zur Diskussion über die Zugangsgewährung zu monopolistischen Engpaßeinrichtungen und die damit verbundene Öffnung von angrenzenden Märkten für Wettbewerb leisten, die bislang vornehmlich juristisch geprägt ist. Ziel der Arbeit ist...

"In recent years, market definition has come under attack as an analytical tool of competition law. Scholars have increasingly questioned its usefulness and feasibility. That criticism comes into sharper relief in dynamic, innovation-driven markets, which do not correspond to the static markets...

Introduction -- The development of Competition Laws and a Hypothesis -- Overview of International Relations Theories -- Cartels : Illegal and/or in the National Interest? -- The Extraterritorial Application of Competition Laws -- Mergers and Acquisitions and National Interests -- Conclusion