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Competition policy & innovation in the digital economy

  • 1 February 2020
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In Concurrences, Alexandre de Streel (CERRE and University of Namur), writes about the role of antitrust in the digital economy. In his foreword “Should digital antitrust be ordoliberal?” he underlines the main characteristics of the digital economy and reflects on how these should impact on the enforcement of competition law.

“As competition policy is one of the most powerful tools for controlling the concentration of private power, it comes as no surprise that there is now a fierce debate among academics on the role of antitrust in digital economy”, he explains.  “Many antitrust agencies across the globe have done or commissioned reports on the adaptation of competition policy to the digital era and a consensus is emerging that more intervention is needed.”

He points out three key common characteristics to most digital platforms: market concentration, rapid pace of innovation and unpredictability. These characteristics give some direction for the antitrust objectives, theories of harm, process and remedies in the digital era.

He concludes that contemporary antitrust should aim at ensuring an innovation level playing field and diversity. He advises that “agencies should focus on corporate behaviours that try to unlevel the innovation field by foreclosing access to key innovation capabilities, enveloping efficient but smaller and niche competitors or killing young potential competitors while swallowing their innovation”.

He also recommends that agencies be participatory and experimental in their remedies design.

Read the full article on Concurrences

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FOREWORD | Concurrences - "Should digital antitrust be ordoliberal?”
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Alexandre De Streel
Alexandre de Streel
CERRE Academic Co-Director
Professor of EU Law, University of Namur

Alexandre de Streel is Academic Co-Director at CERRE and a professor of European law at the University of Namur and the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS/NADI). He is a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School and visiting professor at the European University Institute, SciencesPo Paris and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and also assessor at the Belgian Competition Authority.

His main areas of research are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. Recently, he advised the European Commission and the European Parliament on the regulation of online platforms.

Previously, Alexandre worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission (DG CONNECT). He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Louvain.

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