The effective use of economics in the EU Digital Markets Act

  • Amelia Fletcher
  • , Jacques Cremer
  • , Paul Heidhues
  • , Gene Kimmelman
  • , Giorgio Monti
  • , Rupprecht Podszun
  • , Monika Schnitzer
  • , Fiona Scott Morton
  • , Alexandre de Streel

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Abstract

Economic thinking and analysis lie at the heart of the objectives and the design of the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). However, the design of the DMA reflects a very deliberate-and reasonable-intention to ensure clarity, speed, administrability, and enforceability. In doing so, this pro-competitive regulation omits several elements of standard competition law where economics has typically played a key role. Nonetheless, we believe that economic insights and analysis-including behavioural economic thinking-will continue to play an important role in enabling the DMA to achieve its ambitious and laudable goals, albeit in a somewhat different way.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Competition Law and Economics
Volume20
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2024

Keywords

  • Computer Software
  • Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
  • K21 Antitrust Law
  • K23 Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
  • L41 Monopolization
  • L51 Economics of Regulation
  • L86 Information and Internet Services

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