Internetvertrieb und vertikale Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen

G. Kallfaß, hier. 

Vertical Restraints for On-Line Sales

P. Buccirossi, here (Note submitted to the OECD Competition Committee).

Malleable malls: Shopping centres are proving well-suited to the digital age

TheEconomist.com, here. 

The Digital Economy

OECD, Competition Committee, DAF/COMP(2012)22, here.

Coup de coeur: the French contribution to the October 2011 hearing, p. 75 ff.

The Nature of Competition in the Digital Age

Techliberation.com, ici. 

Únicamemte las farmacias con sede física podrán vender medicinas ‘online’

ElPais.com, aquì.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the Internet Driving Competition or Market Monopolization?

J. Haucap and U. Heimeshoff, here. 

Competition on the Internet

Post-Doc Conference, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, 22 February 2013, Programme here. See also the concept paper to the conference, here. 

Fostering Internet Competition

Brookings Institution's event (Oct. 10, 2012), podcast here, uncorrected transcript here (Spencer Weber Waller starting at 10:22, again at 22:45, 33:00, 37:03, Q&A at 43:00, mentioning waves - ;-) - of creative destruction at 51:50;  see his recent paper on Facebook and antitrust here).

Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy in the Information Technology Sector – a Searle Center Conference Recap

Techpolicy.com, here. 

Internet Competition Debate with Susan Athey and Hal Varian

Techpolicy.com, here. 

Digital Wars. Apple, Google, Microsoft and the battle for the Internet

Book review by A. Slater, here. 

Panel - Internet Competition: Implications for Antitrust

ASPEN 2012 AGENDA, Technology Policy Institute 

August 21, 2012

Susan Athey, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University and Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Tim Bresnahan, Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy, Stanford University

Carlos Kirjner, Vice President and Senior Analyst, Internet, Alliance Bernstein

William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Professor of Law; Director, Competition Law Center, George Washington University

Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google

Thomas Lenard, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute (moderator)
Full Agenda here.

#TPIAspen  , Video here.

- EU setting standards for competition policy globally 

- Platform competition and multihoming

- Complements/substitutes

- counterfactuals and harm to competition by innovation
- leadership in the vertical stack
- lesson from MS: from complement to possible substitute

- dangerous competition threats ex-post and ex-ante (Google/Netscape)

- counterfactual analysis when high quality products are given away for free (multi-sided markets)

- screen control and design

- fines' irrelevance

- changing nature of switching costs  (e.g. privacy issues suddenly relevant to Internet users and Google users in particular)

- the importance of behavioural economics in order to understand consumers' actions