RT Monograph
SR 00
A1 Cornière, Alexandre de
A1 Taylor, Greg
T1 Data and Competition: a General Framework with Applications to Mergers, Market Structure, and Privacy Policy
YR 2020
FD 2020-02
VO 20-1076
SP 42
AB What role does data play in competition? This question has been at the center of a fierce debate around competition policy in the digital economy. We use a competition-in-utilities approach to provide a general framework for studying the competitive effects of data, encompassing a wide range of markets where data has many different uses. We identify conditions for data to be unilaterally proor anti-competitive (UPC or UAC). The conditions are simple and often require no information about market demand. We apply our framework to study various applications of data, including training algorithms, targeting advertisements, and personalizing prices. We also show that whether data is UPC or UAC has important implications for policy issues such as data-driven mergers, market structure, and privacy policy.
T2 TSE Working Paper
PB TSE Working Paper
PP Toulouse
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/34074/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/124102