Competition Law and Policy in Digital Markets

Maria Ioannidou is a Reader in competition law at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London where she also serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Competition and Consumers. Between August 2019 and September 2022 she served as Commissioner Rapporteur and Member of the Board of the Hellenic Competition Commission. Maria is the managing editor for the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and the author of Consumer Involvement in Private Competition Law Enforcement (OUP 2015).Bingwan Xiong is a Professor at the School of Law, Renmin University of China where he serves as Senior Research Fellow at Renmin University Institute of Law and Technology, as well as the Subject Convenor of the Civil and Commercial Law Group. He is member of the directory boards of China's Society of Cyber and Information Law and China's Society of Civil Law. He also sits in the Expert Group of Cloud Computing Service Security Assessment in the Cyberspace Administration of China. He graduated from Renmin University (LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.).

• Part A. The Context: Characteristics of Digital Markets and Competition Law Implications 1: Introduction 2: Technological, Economic, and Architectural Characteristics of Digital Markets 3: Digital Markets and Competition Law Part B. Competition Law and Digital Markets in the EU 4: Anticompetitive Agreements 5: Abuses of Dominance 6: Mergers and Acquisitions Part C. Competition Law and Digital Markets in China 7: Anticompetitive Agreements 8: Abuses of Dominance 9: Mergers 10: Administrative Monopoly Part D. Comparative Assessment: Normative Conclusions 11: Comparative Conclusions 12: Conclusion

It is a carefully argued tour de force that equips readers with the knowledge needed to understand the institutional constraints and path dependencies that will influence how EU and Chinese policy makers adapt their competition rules for the future.