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Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively?

By  |  May 19, 2014

Posted by Social Science Research Network

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    Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively? – Benjamin G. Edelman (Harvard University – HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit)

    ABSTRACT: I examine Google’s pattern and practice of tying and bundling to leverage its dominance into new sectors under antitrust law principles. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial implementations of these practices, and I identify their effects on competition. I conclude that Google’s tying and bundling tactics are suspect under antitrust law.