The European Commission’s 2026 evaluation of the Digital Markets Act faces a fundamental challenge: quantifying abstract goals like fairness and contestability in fast-moving, global markets. This article discusses the opportunities and the limitations of exploiting cross-country variation to evaluate the impact of the Act. Regulatory divergence between major jurisdictions can be informative for two reasons. First, it can generate credible counterfactuals for empirical studies, allowing re
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