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EU Competition Law Goals and the Digital Economy

By  |  June 24, 2018

By Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford)

New competition dynamics in the digital economy raise questions as to the normative scope of competition enforcement. The question – ‘Is this a competition problem?’ has become common in the face of new business strategies, new forms of interaction with consumers, the accumulation of data and the use of big analytics. This paper seeks to outline the goals and values advanced by European Competition law, and their application to digital markets.

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