title: The many faces of anti-competitive practices in digital markets
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metadata.value: Erofeeva, Ekaterina V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kotova, Daria A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Pozdnyakova, Anna E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-16T14:02:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-16T14:02:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Erofeeva, Ekaterina V., Kotova, Daria A., Pozdnyakova, Anna E. 2019. The many faces of anti-competitive practices in digital markets. Pravovedenie 63 (4): 598–624.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2019.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33964
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metadata.value: This article looks at some curious examples of restrictive practices typical for digital markets.
  Digital markets are a unique phenomenon for the new digital economy that is structurally based
  on and driven by digital platforms. The largest digital platforms such as Facebook or Amazon
  and large digital companies such as Google, Microsoft and Apple dominate the digital markets
  of today and thus have a huge potential to restrict competition in these dynamic markets. This
  article takes an analytical approach to several restrictive practices that have recently received
  attention from competition authorities around the world and have largely influenced law enforcement
  as well as our understanding of how digital markets function. First of all, the authors
  consider the so-called price parity clauses. Broadly speaking, these are a particular type of
  arrangements that oblige suppliers to not offer more favorable terms to their business partners
  than those offered to digital platforms (for example hotel websites as compared to online booking
  platforms). However, when narrowed down to contractual relations between a platform and
  a supplier, price parity clauses present a much more complex case. Further, the authors look
  at the multitude of restrictive practices in the online search market illustrated by a series of
  cases initiated against Google by the European Commission. By setting its search engine in a
  particular way, Google prioritized its own services so that they received more consumer traffic.
  Notably, these series of cases is just a part of the collection of anticompetitive tendencies in
  this market. Finally, this article looks at a less well-known, but all the more dangerous case of
  geo-blocking, which occurs when IP-protected content is blocked from distribution outside the
  framework that is reasonably justified by the protection of exclusive rights. Such cases must be
  examined through the complex relationship between the individualistic nature of IP rights and
  public interest. The collection of practices examined in the article highlights both the need to
  significantly reform competition enforcement and the need to rethink the role of competition
  law in the new economy.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 63; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: competition law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital markets
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: competition enforcement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: price parity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: geo-blocking
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discrimination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: online search
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The many faces of anti-competitive practices in digital markets
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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