Self-Preferencing – Legal and Regulatory Uncertainty for the Digital Economy (and Beyond?)

The growth of digital platforms has focused the minds of policymakers and competition authorities across the world on whether stricter enforcement is required against “self-preferencing.” Competition authorities are taking an increasingly expansive approach. While the abuse of dominance regime provides competition authorities with a great deal of flexibility, their treatment of self-preferencing as a standalone abuse raises fundamental questions and leaves them unanswered: over and above the