Regulating Competition in the Digital Network Industry
Will be published approx. on 4. December 2025
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-009-67169-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book proposes a wholly new view on digital competition. Digital firms compete to capture parts of the digital network industry. Once they control access points for competition, they get to decide who gets to compete and how. With their superior access to information and users, incumbents become the de facto regulators of their part of the digital network. Regulation that focuses on markets cannot capture these dimensions of power and competition. The system of Progressive Ecosystem Regulation proposed in this book explains how ecosystem competition can be stimulated to create meaningful competitive pressures, open up the network, and introduce real choice for users.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-67169-9 (9781009671699)
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Person
Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor of EU competition law at Leiden University and external researcher in the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is an expert in the area of digital competition and its regulation. His work focuses on competition in and between digital ecosystems, the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement, and comparative legal research for competition and antitrust matters.
Content
1. Introduction; Part I. The Competitors in the Digital Network Industry; 2. A typology for digital goods, platforms, and ecosystems; 3. The Digital Network Industry: a confluence of the old and new; 4. Core platform services, the new natural monopoly?; Part II The Dynamics of Competition between Digital Ecosystems; 5. Modalities of ecosystem competition; 6. The stages of ecosystem competition - from efficient to harmful; 7. Theories of harm for ecosystem competition; Part III. A Regulatory Framework to Govern Ecosystem Competition; 8. The existing regulatory paradigms: DMA, DMCC, and Sec. 19a GWB; 9. A New Regulatory Paradigm: Progressive Ecosystem Regulation; 10. Conclusions.