ANTICOMPETITIVE ASPECTS OF INTER- AND INTRAPLATFORM LEVERAGING

The book investigates the concept of platform as a market player and identifies specific platforms’ characteristics that make it practical from the competition law enforcement point of view to distinguish between leveraging practices that extend a market power from one platform to another and ones that are implemented to the same effect between the two sides of the same platform. The book finds that differential treatment by competition law enforcement is justified as soon as the type of co...