Antitrust Chronicle® – Network Effects

Dear Readers,

This edition of the Chronicle brings together a set of reflections on network effects, data, and the long shadow they cast over modern competition law. Each contribution examines, from a different angle, the mechanisms by which digital platforms accumulate advantage and the policy responses that might be required.

To open, Rozhina Ghanavi & Catherine Tucker begin with synthetic data, a tool that promises to soften incumbents’ data advantages by generating usable substi