Regulaciones ex-ante para la competencia en mercados digitales

Authors

  • Serguei Komissarov FPyCS | UNLP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29019/tsafiqui.v13i20.1095

Keywords:

Digital platforms, competition, digital economy, antitrust regulations, competition law, two-sided markets

Abstract

This paper analyzes four bills proposed by the United States Committee on the Judiciary to promote competition in the markets of the digital economy. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are intermediaries between their users and other economic agents. This position allows them to charge supra-competitive rates, impose abusive contract terms and extract data from the companies that depend on them. Therefore, the platforms constitute and regulate a market for third parties in which they compete simultaneously. This paper examines the proposed legislation, its relationship with the current legal framework and its effects on the commercial practices of digital platforms. The regulations provide: 1- adopt structural presumptions and reverse the burden of proof on anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions; 2- prohibit discriminatory conduct that dominant platforms practice against commercial users who depend on them; 3- require the structural separation between the activities that constitute discriminatory conduct; and 4- establish mandatory interoperability and data portability requirements. Taken together, these measures have three effects on competition. First, they prevent market concentration. Additionally, they eliminate conflicts of interest over simultaneous ownership or control of a platform and a complementary line of business. Finally, they lower the barriers to market entry by lowering the costs of switching services.

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Published

2023-01-10

How to Cite

Komissarov, S. (2023). Regulaciones ex-ante para la competencia en mercados digitales. Tsafiqui, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.29019/tsafiqui.v13i20.1095