Christophe Carugati

Privacy in competition cases is becoming common due to the importance of data. The literature thus focuses on the role of data and privacy in antitrust and merger control laws. Yet, the literature does not offer an empirical overview of the cases to understand how countries investigate the (...)

In Europe, the European Commission (the Commission) unveiled in December 2020 the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It aims at “ensuring fair and open digital markets” by applying an ex ante asymmetric regulation against large online platforms acting as “gatekeepers” in core platforms services with a (...)

The European Commission (hereinafter “the Commission”) is seeking views on how to adapt EU competition law to the digital economy. Against this background, on June 2, 2020, the Commission published two public consultations on a potential New Competition Tool (NCT) and a potential ex ante (...)

In the world, competition authorities are currently adapting to the specifies and issues of the digital economy by reforming their competition laws. The reform of the merger control is a first step in order to avoid to concentrate this economy already dominated by just a few firms. This paper (...)