Promoting Competition in Innovation Through Merger Control in the ICT Sector A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study /

• Main Author: Tyagi, Kalpana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition, 10
• Subjects: Mass media.; Law.; Commercial law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; Commercial law > European Economic Community countries.; IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property.; Business Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .; Legal Aspects of Computing.; European Economic Law.

This book addresses the question of how competition authorities assess mergers in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector so as to promote competition in innovation. A closer look at the question reveals that it is far more complex and difficult to answer for the ICT, telecommunication...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I Merger Review
• (Ir-) Relevant Markets in the High Technology Sector (?).-Salient Features of the ICT Sector
• Theory of Harm: Unilateral Effects in ICT Mergers
• Theories of Harm: Vertical Effects in ICT Mergers
• Theories of Harm: Conglomerate Effects and Types of Evidence
• Merger Control in the EU and the UK
• Merger Control in the US
• Part II Merger Remedies and Merger Remedy-related Arbitration
• Mergers, Innovation and Remedies' Design
• Merger Remedies
• Structural Remedies
• Non-structural Remedies
• Remedies in the Telecommunications Sector
• Merger Remedy-Related Arbitration: une innovation suprenante
• RTI v. Sky: The First Reported Case of Merger Remedy Related Arbitration
• Monitoring Trustee
• Part III Big Data Mergers: Merger Review and Remedies
• Big Data and Merger Control
• Part IV Summary, Conclusions and the Road Ahead
• Summary, Conclusions and Further Research.