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Recent Developments at the CMA: 2019–2020

Authors :
James Rutt
Chris Jenkins
Paul Tregear
Richard Havell
Elliott Scanlon
Michael Walker
Source :
Review of Industrial Organization
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Springer US, 2020.

Abstract

We discuss three important cases that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has completed over the past year: First, the coronavirus pandemic has had implications for a wide range of the CMA's work; we describe the work on price gouging conducted by the CMA's Covid-19 taskforce and respond to the argument that competition authorities should not be concerned about such behaviour. Second, a number of high-profile studies have considered the appropriate application of competition policy in digital industries. The second two cases-the Online Platforms and Digital Advertising market study, and the Google/Looker merger-show the work the CMA has continued to do in this area.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15737160 and 0889938X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Review of Industrial Organization
Accession number :
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