The Digital Markets Act between the EU Economic Constitutionalism and the EU Competition Policy

• Authors: Claudia Massa

Abstracts

FR

La doctrine a déjà beaucoup écrit sur les implications pratiques de l’entrée en vigueur du Digital Markets Act, c’est pourquoi le présent article vise à ramener la discussion au niveau théorique, en essayant d’identifier les racines de cette proposition de règlement, a travers une analyse du contexte dans lequel il s’inscrit, des principes et valeurs de l’UE sur lesquels il repose, des objectifs qu’il entend poursuivre et des théories juridico-économiques qui le sous-tendent.

EN

Given that a lot has already been written by legal scholars on the practical implications that the entry into force of the Digital Markets Act will have, the present article intends to bring the discussion back to the theoretical level, trying to find out where the roots of this proposed regulation lie, with an analysis of the context in which it falls, the EU principles and values upon which it is based, the objectives it intends to pursue, and the legal-economic theories behind it.

Keywords

EN

Digital Markets Act; EU Economic constitutionalism; EU competition; policy; Big Tech; EU Law

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 26
• Pages: 103-130

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Claudia Massa

• University of Naples “Federico II”

• https://orcid.org/0000000335879417

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2022.15.26.5

Biblioteka Nauki

2159102