Category: Commentary Elsewhere

From CPI RSS: Supplement to Platform Economics: The Economics of Multi-Sided Businesses “ (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) I’ve written the following articles on multi-sided platforms since the publication of Platform Economics: Essays on Multi-Sided Businesses in December 2011. Hopefully, you’ll find them useful. The first article, the “Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platforms,” provides a survey of the literature on multi-sided platforms that is relevant to competition policy through the end of 2012. The other three articles cover different aspects of multi-sided platforms. “Governing Bad Behavior” is about the use of rules and regulations by platforms to govern their communities. “Economics of Vertical Restraints for Multi-Sided Platforms” examines the pro-competitive and anti-competitive explanations for vertical restraints […]

From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Section 5 Guidelines: Fixing a Problem that Doesn’t Exist? “Sharis Pozen (Skadden) and Anne Six ask Section 5 Guidelines: Fixing a Problem that Doesn’t Exist? ABSTRACT: When Congress enacted the Federal Trade Commission Act in 1914, almost 25 years after enacting the Sherman Act, it purposely created a different…”

From Kluwer Competition Law – News: The EU General Court fully confirms the legality of the Commission’s inspection decisions under the Regulation No 1/2003 and dismisses the appeals on all grounds (Deutsche Bahn), e-Competitions 25 September 2013, Case date: 6 September 2013 “”

From Kluwer Competition Law – News: Competition Appeal Tribunal rules that use of data rooms is lawful in market investigations, but criticises restrictive access conditions “”