by bacenter | Feb 25, 2025 | Data, Trade & National Security, Intellectual Property Rights, Working Papers
In an extraordinary decision by the UK government, the head of the politically independent Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), Marcus Bokkerink, was sacked in late January 2025. The business secretary Josh Reynolds linked the dismissal with “a plan for change”...
by bacenter | Feb 14, 2025 | Data, Trade & National Security, Working Papers
Australia’s regulatory approach to cryptocurrency and digital asset exchanges has been characterized by a series of parliamentary inquiries and conflicting consultations, culminating in legislative inaction and regulatory uncertainty. The lack of a clear...
by bacenter | Jan 24, 2025 | Blogs, Competition Law & Economics
Initially published at Oxford Competition Law Insight, December 2024. I. Introduction The As-Efficient Competitor (AEC) test has long been a focal point in EU competition law, serving as a conceptual tool for assessing whether the conduct of a dominant...
by bacenter | Jan 24, 2025 | Working Papers
The Competition Bureau Canada says that, when it protects competition to innovate, it may be able to do more than protect competition in Future Markets. It says that it may be able to protect competition in what the European Commission calls an Innovation Space. The...
by bacenter | Jan 14, 2025 | AI Policy & Regulation, Working Papers
Legal literature does not offer any sound theoretical development on the relationship between law and innovation. In practice, two broad rival approaches – protective or permissive – emerged over time as social regulation was introduced in sectors of activity where...
