TY  - BOOK
AU  - Motta,Massimo
AU  - Schweitzer,Heike
AU  - Peitz,Martin
TI  - Market investigations: a new competition tool for Europe? 
SN  - 9781009072007 (ebook)
AV  - HF1414 .M366 2022
U1  - 338.6/048 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Competition
KW  - Business
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Competition, Unfair
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Dec 2021)
N2  - In many economic sectors - the digital industries being first and foremost - the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make markets more contestable. The book argues that a new competition tool is needed: market investigations. This tool allows authorities to intervene in markets which do not function as they should, due to market features such as network effects, scale economies, switching costs, and behavioural biases. The book explains the role of market investigations, assesses their use in the few jurisdictions where they exist, and discusses how they should be designed. In so doing, it provides an invaluable and timely instrument to both practitioners and academics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072007
ER  -