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.
