Rhodes Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022

Data and Market Power in the Digital Economy

Improvements in technology are enabling firms to collect and process increasingly large amounts of detailed information about their customers and their competitors. This growing use of data is fundamentally changing the nature of competition. For example, it is affecting i) how firms compete, as they offer collections of services, ii) the level at which firms compete, as they make personalised offers to individual consumers, and iii) the complexity of firms’ strategies, as they increasingly delegate decisions to algorithms. The research in this proposal will deepen our understanding of how data is changing market power, and how this should be reflected in antitrust and competition policy.…

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