Acquisitions, Competition and Innovation in Digital Markets
The Digital Markets Competition Forum initiative at Copenhagen Business School, directed by prof. Carmelo Cennamo, held a virtual roundtable discussion on “Acquisitions, Competition and Innovation in Digital Markets”. Acquisitions by BigTech companies has become an area of intensive debate, both academically and in practice. Following an academic study on acquisitions by pharma companies, which revealed […]
Platform neutrality and self-preferencing: a competition and innovation policy perspective
The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduces some innovative aspects in ex ante anti-competitive law that can potentially set a new standard regulatory framework of the digital economy at the international level. One such principle is the restraint imposed on large, dominant platform providers to promote and favor their own products and services on their […]
Unpacking the inner workings of a Platform: How do algorithms and data shape competition among participants?
The panel investigated how algorithms and data contributed to platform governance and discussed the effects on competition among platform participants, and the policy implications, by considering the following issues: Invited experts drew on their research and offered their views. A discussion and Q&A session followed. Watch the recording: