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Affectation with a public interest, between antitrust laws and regulation: Lessons from the U.S. experience of the first decades of the 20th century for online ecosystems

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  • Thierry Kirat

    (IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Frédéric Marty

    (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po, CIRANO - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal)

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Concerns related to Big Techs lead to a proliferation of legislative proposals to complete competition rules with regulatory devices that would lead gatekeepers to be subject to obligations to leave market access free and undistorted. Within this context, this contribution revisits American decision-making practice from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century to show how sectoral regulation and the enforcement of competition rules have been activated to control the strategies of firms acting as gatekeepers. A company with private regulatory power carrying out an activity affecting the public interest could and should be subject to specific supervision.

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  • Thierry Kirat & Frédéric Marty, 2022. "Affectation with a public interest, between antitrust laws and regulation: Lessons from the U.S. experience of the first decades of the 20th century for online ecosystems," SciencePo Working papers Main halshs-03511604, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:halshs-03511604
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