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Do AI markets create competition policy concerns?
As the EU Executive Vice President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager holds both an industrial and a competition policy mandate. This dual mandate...
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Europe may be the world’s AI referee, but referees don’t win
This opinion piece was originally published in Politico. The European Commission’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager has been tasked with developing a European strategy on artificial...
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Imagine that the Tour de France allowed non-French competitors, and only non-French competitors, to use performance-enhancing drugs. Now imagine these rules were changed to ban the use of drugs for all...
View ArticleDigital platforms and antitrust
Digital platforms are at the heart of online economic activity, connecting multi-sided markets of producers and consumers of various goods and services. Their market power and their privileged...
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Europe is losing competitiveness in global value chains while China surges
COVID-19 has led to the transmission globally of value chain disruptions originating in China and the scarcity of critical medical goods, not helped by an increase in export restrictions imposed by...
View ArticleResearch and innovation policies and productivity growth
This Working Paper is an output from the MICROPROD project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 822390. We review...
View ArticleNew kid in the playground: China’s antitrust push
This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a new newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly analysis of China in the world, as seen from Europe....
View ArticleStability of collusion and quality differentiation: a Nash bargaining approach
How do incentives to collude depend on how asymmetric firms are? In many markets, product quality is an important parameter that determines firms’ market strategies. We study collusion in a...
View ArticleMaking antitrust work for, not against, gig workers and the self-employed
In late September, the Chair of United States Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, urged Congress to consider passing legislation to ensure gig workers who organise do not fall foul of antitrust laws....
View ArticleOpaque and ill-defined: the problems with Europe’s IPCEI subsidy framework
As European industrial policy evolves, state aid is acquiring a new role in the pursuit of the European Union’s green and supply-chain sustainability goals. The Important Project of Common European...
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The dark side of artificial intelligence: manipulation of human behaviour
A German translation of this piece has also appeared in Makronom. It is no exaggeration to say that popular platforms with loyal users, like Google and Facebook, know those users better than their...
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