Regulating Data Monopolies

Regulating Data Monopolies
Author: Jingyuan Ma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9789811687679

This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective. The aim of this book is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the anti-competitive behavior of companies who monopolize data, and put forward the necessity of regulating data monopoly by exploring the causes and characteristics of their anti-competitive behavior. It studies four aspects of the differences between data monopoly and traditional monopolistic behavior, namely defining the relevant market for data monopolies, the entry barrier, the problem of determining the dominant position of data monopoly, and the influence on consumer welfare. It points out the limitations of traditional regulatory tools and discusses how new regulatory methods could be developed within the competition legal framework to restrict data monopolies. It proposes how economic analytical tools used in traditional anti-monopoly law are facing challenges and how competition enforcement agencies could adjust regulatory methods to deal with new anti-competitive behavior by data monopolies.

Regulating Data Monopolies

Regulating Data Monopolies
Author: Jingyuan Ma
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9811687668

This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective. The aim of this book is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the anti-competitive behavior of companies who monopolize data, and put forward the necessity of regulating data monopoly by exploring the causes and characteristics of their anti-competitive behavior. It studies four aspects of the differences between data monopoly and traditional monopolistic behavior, namely defining the relevant market for data monopolies, the entry barrier, the problem of determining the dominant position of data monopoly, and the influence on consumer welfare. It points out the limitations of traditional regulatory tools and discusses how new regulatory methods could be developed within the competition legal framework to restrict data monopolies. It proposes how economic analytical tools used in traditional anti-monopoly law are facing challenges and how competition enforcement agencies could adjust regulatory methods to deal with new anti-competitive behavior by data monopolies.

The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies

The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies
Author: Bilić, Paško
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1529212375

As outrage over the socially damaging practices of technology companies intensifies, this book asks what it actually means to hold a 'monopoly' in the tech world and offers an in-depth analysis of how these corporate giants are produced, financialized, and regulated.

Natural Monopoly Regulation

Natural Monopoly Regulation
Author: Sanford V. Berg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1989-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521338936

Considered the cutting edge of microeconomic theory in the 1970s, natural monopoly research remains an active and fertile field. Policy makers and regulators have begun to implement entry and pricing policies that are based on theoretical and empirical analyses. This book develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing natural monopoly. The authors first present a historical overview of regulatory economics, followed by analyses of optimal pricing and investment for single- and multiproduct natural monopolies. Topics covered include cost and demand structures, efficiency impacts of linear and multipart pricing, peak-load pricing, capacity determination, and the sustainability of natural monopolies. After a survey and analysis of natural monopoly regulation in practice, the links between technological change and regulation are identified. The book concludes with a discussion of the alternatives to traditional regulation, including public ownership, franchise schemes, quality regulation, and new incentive systems. Throughout the book, issues from the telecommunications and energy industries are used to illustrate key points. Its integrated framework will make it useful to academic economists, regulatory analysts, business researchers, and advanced students of public utility economics.

Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets

Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets
Author: Francesco Ducci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108491146

Through three case studies, this book investigates whether digital industries are naturally monopolistic and evaluates policy approaches to market power.

Regulating Public Services

Regulating Public Services
Author: Emmanuelle Auriol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108833950

This book provides the tools needed to analyse the present and the future of economic regulation.

Regulating Data Monopolies

Regulating Data Monopolies
Author: Jingyuan Ma
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789811687686

This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective. The aim of this book is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the anti-competitive behavior of companies who monopolize data, and put forward the necessity of regulating data monopoly by exploring the causes and characteristics of their anti-competitive behavior. It studies four aspects of the differences between data monopoly and traditional monopolistic behavior, namely defining the relevant market for data monopolies, the entry barrier, the problem of determining the dominant position of data monopoly, and the influence on consumer welfare. It points out the limitations of traditional regulatory tools and discusses how new regulatory methods could be developed within the competition legal framework to restrict data monopolies. It proposes how economic analytical tools used in traditional anti-monopoly law are facing challenges and how competition enforcement agencies could adjust regulatory methods to deal with new anti-competitive behavior by data monopolies.

The Antitrust Paradox

The Antitrust Paradox
Author: Robert Bork
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736089712

The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.

Big Tech and the Digital Economy

Big Tech and the Digital Economy
Author: Nicolas Petit
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198837701

This book asks a simple question: are the tech giants monopolies? In the current environment of suspicion towards the major technology companies as a result of concerns about their power and influence, it has become commonplace to talk of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, or Netflix as the modern day version of the 19th century trusts. In turn, the tech giants are vilified for a whole range of monopoly harms towards consumers, workers and even the democratic process. In the US and the EU, antitrust, and regulatory reform is on the way. Using economics, business and management science as well legal reasoning, this book offers a new perspective on big tech. It builds a theory of "moligopoly". The theory advances that the tech giants, or at least some of them, coexist both as monopolies and oligopoly firms that compete against each other in an environment of substantial uncertainty and economic dynamism. With this, the book assesses ongoing antitrust and regulatory policy efforts. It demonstrates that it is counterproductive to pursue policies that introduce more rivalry in moligopoly markets subject to technological discontinuities. And that non-economic harms like privacy violations, fake news, or hate speech are difficult issues that belong to the realm of regulation, not antimonopoly remediation.

The Roles of Innovation in Competition Law Analysis

The Roles of Innovation in Competition Law Analysis
Author: Paul Nihoul
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 1788972449

Rapid technological innovations have challenged the conventional application of antitrust and competition law across the globe. Acknowledging these challenges, this original work analyses the roles of innovation in competition law analysis and reflects on how competition and antitrust law can be refined and tailored to innovation.