The Law and Economics of Data and Privacy in Antitrust Analysis

• DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2418779
• Publication Date: 2014-11-12T16:01:50Z
• Authors: Geoffrey A. Manne; Ben Sperry
• Keywords: 0211 other engineering and technologies; 02 engineering and technology; 16. Peace & justice

While several scholars and policymakers have proposed that threats to privacy competition from concentration of data be incorporated into antitrust analysis, no one has yet articulated a coherent theory as how degrading or aggregating can anticompetitive — nor even what, precisely, harms are in this context. In paper, we survey evaluate the various attempts incorporate concerns antitrust’s domain. We find those more skeptical law’s ability deal with better argument.