EU COMPETITION LAW AND THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY NETWORK INDUSTRIES
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- Author: ANDREJ FATUR
- ISBN: 9781849461344
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Competition policies have long been based on a scholarly
tradition focused on static models and static analysis of industrial
organisation. However, recent developments in industrial organisation
literature have led to significant advances, moving beyond traditional static
models and a preoccupation with price competition, to consider the organisation
of industries in a dynamic context. This is especially important in the field
of information and communication technology (ICT) network industries where
competition centres on network effects, innovation and intellectual property
rights, and where the key driver of consumer benefit is technological progress.
Consequently, when an antitrust intervention is contemplated, a number of
considerations that arise out of the specific nature of the ICT sector have to
be taken into account to ensure improved consumer welfare. This book considers
the adequacy of existing EU competition policy in the area of the ICT
industries in the light of the findings of modern economic theory. Particular
attention is given to the implications of these dynamic markets for the
competitive assessment and treatment of the most common competitive harms in
this area, such as non-price predatory practices, tying and bundling,
co-operative standard setting, platform joint ventures and co-operative R&D.