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Zimmer, Daniel --- "The digital economy: a challenge for competition policy?" [2018] ELECD 1649; in Nihoul, Paul; Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter (eds), "The Roles of Innovation in Competition Law Analysis" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 299

Book Title: The Roles of Innovation in Competition Law Analysis

Editor(s): Nihoul, Paul; Van Cleynenbreugel, Pieter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788972437

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: The digital economy: a challenge for competition policy?

Author(s): Zimmer, Daniel

Number of pages: 8

Abstract/Description:

Many people are concerned about the strong market position of certain individual companies in the digital economy. The largest search engine processes about 90 percent of all queries from Europe. The largest social network receives 15 times as many clicks as the second-largest. How can this strong market concentration be explained? And is it cause for concern? Acknowledging those concerns, the German Monopolies’ Commission adopted a prospective report proposing a way forward in this respect. This chapter analyses the propositions made in that report, questioning to what extent the digital economy poses a challenge for competition policy.