Competition and Regulation in Network Industries: Essays in Industrial Organisation - Softcover

Zogheib, Jean-Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1954750994 ISBN 13: 9781954750999

Publisher: Institute of Competition Law, 2021

Synopsis

While particularly dynamic and innovative, the digital and telecommunication industries are found to have a great tendency towards concentration, resulting in strong market power and raising concerns from competition and regulatory authorities. In this study focusing on such network industries, Jean-Marc Zogheib explores the interplay between public policy and firms' strategies by combining various tools of theoretical economic analysis adopted from industrial economics, network economics, and platform economics. Mr. Zogheib's thesis consists of three distinct essays: the first chapter examines how merger policy affects firms' entry strategies, the second chapter shifts the focus to public intervention by considering how the coexistence of private and public players affects competition and investment, while the third chapter investigates the role of privacy in competition between digital platforms and the importance of consumer data in the competitive analysis of mergers. This book clearly illustrates how economics can contribute essential building blocks to the construction of competitive reasoning and how the integration of competition law into economic models extended their collective utility. An important read for lawyers and economists alike.

The book was awarded the inaugural Concurrences PhD Award in Economics. 

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About the Authors

Jean-Marc Zogheibis an assistant professor in economics at Paris Nanterre University. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics and completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Telecom Paris in partnership with Orange. His research interests include competition policy and regulation linked to network industries, digital economics, and economics of privacy. His thesis was awarded the 2020 Concurrences Law PhD Award.

Marc Bourreau is currently Professor of Economics at Telecom ParisTech. He is also attached to the interdisciplinary institute for innovation (i3) for his research. His main research interests lie in industrial economics, regulation and telecommunications. His current research projects concern the impact of competition and regulation on investment in the telecoms industry, licensing and trading of standard essential patents, the impact of digitization in the music industry, and the economics of digital platforms.

Frédéric Marty is a CNRS senior research fellow. He is also affiliate researcher of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE - Sciences Po. Paris), member of the EPPP Research Group of the Sorbonne Graduate Business School (IAE Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), and member of the College of the French Competition Authority (regulated professions department). He graduated in economics and management from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Ph.D. in economics). Since 2003 he has been a member of the Group of Research in Law, Economics and Management (GREDEG) a join laboratory of the CNRS and of the Université Côte d’Azur. His publications and teachings deal with law and economics with a focus on procurement and competition policy. He also published a book on law and economics with Thierry Kirat (Economie du Droit et de la Réglementation, Gualino, 2007). His research fields encompass unilateral abuses of dominance, state aids’ regulation, and the history of competitions policies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Competition Law
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954750994
• ISBN 13: 9781954750999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144