Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the internet driving competition or market monopolization?

Arbeitspapier

This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction platforms, and social networks. Given the high level of market concentration and the development of competition over time, we use our theoretical insights to examine whether leading Internet platforms have non-temporary market power. Based on this analysis we answer the question whether any specific market regulation beyond general competition law rules is warranted in these three online markets.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86304-082-6
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 83

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies ; Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices ; Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce ; Entertainment; Media ; Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
• Thema: two-sided markets ; online markets ; digital economy ; antitrust ; e-commerce

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Haucap, Justus ; Heimeshoff, Ulrich
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
• (wo): Düsseldorf
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/68229
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ