Jens-Uwe Franck

University of Mannheim

L 7, 3-5

Mannheim, 68161

Germany

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Scholarly Papers (35)

1.

To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 21-25
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2021
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Oxford - University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Students, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon, Bocconi University - Department of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Utrecht University - Faculty of Law, FernUniversität in Hagen, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Bayreuth University, Charles III University of Madrid, Tilburg Law School, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim - Department of Economics, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Faculty of Law, University of Zurich - Institute of Law and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
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competition law, data act, data protection, data governance act, data regulation, digital services act, digital markets act, enforcement, fundamental rights, GDPR, platform regulation, private enforcement, private power

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Market Definition in the Platform Economy

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series 2021, final version Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS) 23 (2021), 513-528
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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antitrust law, EU competition practice, market definition, market power, Market Definition Notice, two-sided platforms, digital markets, network effects, matching platforms, zero-price markets, homing decisions, SSNIP test

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Digital Markets and Online Platforms: New Perspectives on Regulation and Competition Law

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 03 Dec 2020
University of Passau, Telecom ParisTech, University of East Anglia, University of Namur, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim - Department of Economics and University of Regensburg
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platforms, economics, regulation, digital markets, competition law, europe

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Umbrella Pricing and Cartel Damages under EU Competition Law

EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2015/18, final version European Competition Journal 11 (2015) 135-167
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 May 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Umbrella pricing; Competition law damages; Principle of effectiveness; Institutional balance; Reasonable foreseeability

Toward a Coherent Policy on Cartel Damages

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2017
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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cartel damages, antitrust standing, pass‐on, suppliers, complementary goods

Toward a Coherent Policy on Cartel Damages

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 17-009
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2018
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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Cartel damages, antitrust standing, pass ‐ on, suppliers, complementary goods

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Homo Economicus, Behavioural Sciences, and Economic Regulation: On the Concept of Man in Internal Market Regulation and Its Normative Basis

Jens-Uwe Franck and Kai Purnhagen, in Klaus Mathis (ed.), Law and Economics in Europe, Springer 2014, 329-365, EUI Working Papers LAW No. 2012/26
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck and Kai P. Purnhagen
University of Mannheim and University of Bayreuth
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EU law, internal market, information paradign, regulation

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Market Power of Digital Platforms

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series 2022, final version Oxford Review of Economic Policy (OREP) 39 (2023) 34–46
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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market power, digital platforms, Big Tech, potential competition, Brussels effect

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Antitrust Fines and Managerial Liability

Forthcoming in Florence Thépot and Anna Tzanaki (eds), Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar 2025), Discussion Paper Series – CRC TR 224
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 May 2023 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck and Till Seyer
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Faculty of Law
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antitrust law, cartels, antitrust fines, deterrence, managerial liability, antitrust compliance, D&O insurance, EU law, principle of effectiveness

Management Liability for Companies’ Antitrust Fines

Forthcoming in Florence Thépot and Anna Tzanaki (eds), Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar 2025)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck and Till Seyer
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Faculty of Law
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Antitrust law, cartels, antitrust fines, deterrence, managerial liability, recourse liability, antitrust compliance, D&O insurance, EU law, principle of effectiveness

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Digital Platforms and the New 19a Tool in the German Competition Act

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series 2021, final version JECLAP 12 (2021) 513-528
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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competition law, abuse of market power, digital platforms, gate-keeper, Big Tech

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Implementation of the EU Damages Directive into Member State Law

Concurrences N°3-2017, Conference, pp. 1–67
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Sep 2017
University of Würzburg, University of Padua, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, Hausfeld, Baker & McKenzie, University of Mannheim, University of Salento, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Armed Forces Hamburg, University of Würzburg, Menold Bezler and Hengeler Mueller Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
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Damages Directive, private enforcement, competition law, antitrust law, disclosure, limitation periods, consensual settlements

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The Digital Markets Act and the Whack-A-Mole Challenge

final version Common Market Law Review (CMLRev) 61 (2024) 299-344
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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Digital Markets Act, anti-circumvention, antitrust law, price parity clauses, tying, self-preferencing

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Options to Strengthen the Control of Acquisitions by Digital Gatekeepers in EU Law

TILEC Discussion Paper No. DP2021-16, 2021.
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Nov 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck, Giorgio Monti and Alexandre de Streel
University of Mannheim, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) and University of Namur
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Germany's 'Lex Apple Pay': Payment Services Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series 2020, final version JECLAP 12 (2021) 68-81
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck and Dimitrios Linardatos
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim
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‘Lex Apple Pay’; Technology Platforms; Antitrust; Payment Services Regulation; Mobile Payment; Access to NFC Interfaces; Wallet Apps; Internal Market Regulation

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Defining the Leeway for Business Cooperation: Remaining Peculiarities under German Competition Law after Its Europeanisation

final version in Juan Ignacio Ruiz Peris and Carmen Estevan de Quesada (eds), Cooperación empresarial y derecho de la competencia / Buisness cooperation and competition law, Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia) 2019, 147–173
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Antitrust, Competition Law, EU Law, German Law, SMEs

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What Is ‘Competition Law’? – Measuring EU Member States’ Leeway to Regulate Platform-to-Business Agreements

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series 2020, final version Yearbook of European Law (YEL) 39 (2020) 320-386
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck and Nils Stock
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Law
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Competition Law; Regulation; Article 3(2) of Regulation 1/2003; Objective Pursued by Article 101 TFEU; Restraint of Trade Doctrine; Pratiques Restrictives De Concurrence; Platform-to-Business Agreements; Price-Parity Clauses; Regulation 2019/1150

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Regelsetzung im Kartellprivatrecht: Schadensersatzhaftung als Herausforderung für das institutionelle Gleichgewicht in der EU (Regulating Private Law in the Context of Antitrust: Cartel Damages Law as a Challenge to the Institutional Balance in the EU)

final version in Florian Möslein (ed), Regelsetzung im Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen) 2019, 331–372
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Courage v Crehan, Kartellrecht, Schadensersatz, institutionelles Gleichgewicht, Competition Law, Antitrust Law, Cartel Damages Law, institutional balance, Richtlinie 2014/104/EU, Directive 2014/104/EU

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Schutz der Robo Advisor vor Marktbarrieren: Zugriffsrechte auf Banken-Schnittstellen? (Protecting Robo Advisors against Market Barriers: Access Rights to Bank Interfaces?)

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 19-045; final version in Dimitrios Linardatos (ed), Rechtshandbuch Robo Advice, C.H. Beck (München) 2020, 284–323
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck and Dimitrios Linardatos
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim
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Open Banking, Robo Advisor, Zugriff auf Banken-Schnittstellen, Kartellrecht, Finanzmarktrecht, Zahlungsauslösedienste, Kontoinformationsdienste, Zahlungsdiensterichtlinie

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Individual Private Rights of Action under the Platform-to-Business Regulation

final version European Business Law Review [EBLR] 34 (2023), 525-562
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Platform-to-Business Regulation 2019/1150, Private Enforcement, Individual Rights of Action, Online Intermediation Services, Online Search Engines, Amazon Marketplace, Platform Economy, Choice-of-Court Agreements

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Open Markets in the Era of Fintech and Big Tech: Lessons for the Institutional Design of Competition Policy

final version Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 12 (2024), 148-188, under the title 'Competition enforcement versus regulation as market-opening tools: an application to banking and payment systems' <https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781509963379>
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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competition policy, institutional design, competition law, regulation, market investigation, open banking, fintech, big tech, payment services

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Suppliers As Forgotten Cartel Victims

NYU Journal of Law & Business 15 (2018) 17-59
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Jan 2019
Jens-Uwe Franck and Martin Peitz
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics
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antitrust damages, antitrust standing, antitrust injury, pass-on, suppliers, complementary goods

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Private Enforcement versus Public Enforcement

Franz Hofmann and Franziska Kurz (eds.), Law of Remedies. A European Perspective, Intersentia 2019, 107-131
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Mar 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Private Enforcement, Public Enforcement, EU Internal Market Law, Effet Utile-Interpretation, Principle of Effectiveness, Greek Maize Case, Parmesan Cheese Case, Courage v Crehan, Muñoz, Bankinter, Schmitt, Detection of Infringements

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Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law in Germany

Country report (Chapter 5) in Ferdinand Wollenschläger, Wolfgang Wurmnest and Thomas M.J. Möllers (eds.), Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law, Wolters Kluwer 2020.
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Jan 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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EU competition law, cartel damages, EU Competition Damages Directive 2014/104/EU, private enforcement

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Abuse Proceedings Against Digital Gatekeepers under Section 19a of the German Competition Act: Taking Stock of Early Results

final version in Ruiz Peris and Estevan De Quesada (eds), New European Competition Trends in Digital Markets, Atelier (Barcelona) 2024, 23-51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71237/zKo2YRpW

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Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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antitrust law, digital gatekeepers, big tech, digital platforms, DMA

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The Directive on Unfair Trading Practices in the Agri-Food Supply Chain: Regulatory Ambitions and Legal Instruments

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP) 2021, 843–891, Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Directive (EU) 2019/633, European Union, Common Agricultural Policy, Unfair Trading Practices, Agri-food Supply Chain, Distribution, Retailing, Buyer Power, Contracts

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Striking a Balance of Power between the Court of Justice and the EU Legislature: The Law on Competition Damages Actions as a Paradigm

European Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, pp. 837-857, 2018
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2019
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Institutional balance; Principle of effectiveness; Democratic legitimacy; EU competition damages law; Courage v Crehan; Directive 2014/104; Access to leniency documents

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Germany's New Competition Tool: Sector Inquiry With Remedies

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Nov 2024
Martin Peitz and Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim
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Competition law, sector inquiry, market investigation, New Competition Tool, Bundeskartellamt, divestiture

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EU Merger Control and Climate Action: The Struggle for the Proper Framework

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Aug 2024
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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antitrust law, merger control, climate change, environmental sustainability JEL classification: K21

28.

Enforcing Fintech Competition: Some Reflections on Institutional Design

final version in Konstantinos Stylianou, Marios Iacovides, and Björn Lundqvist (eds), Fintech Competition: Law, Policy, and Market Organisation (Bloomsbury Hart, 2023) 281-305
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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fintech, competition enforcement, enforcing regulation, institutional design, enforcement style, regulatory capture

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Stellungnahme zur Evaluierung von § 58a ZAG (Response to the Consultation on Section 58a PSSA – The German ‘Lex Apple Pay’)

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jan 2022
Jens-Uwe Franck and Dimitrios Linardatos
University of Mannheim and University of Mannheim
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Lex Apple Pay, Technology Platforms, Antitrust, Payment Services Regulation, Mobile Payment, Access to NFC Interfaces, Wallet Apps

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Rights, Remedies and Effective Enforcement in Air Transportation: Ruijssenaars

Common Market Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 6, 2017
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Oct 2020
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Regulation 261/2004, Flight Compensation, Administrative Enforcement, Principle of Effectiveness, Procedural Autonomy, Effective Judicial Protection, Private and Public Enforcement

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Bundeskartellamt, behördliche Unabhängigkeit, Befangenheit, ECN+-Richtlinie, politische Einflussnahme

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‘So Hedge Therefore, Who Join Forever’: Understanding the Interrelation of No-Fault Divorce and Premarital Contracts

International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 23, Issue 3, pp. 235-276, 2009
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2021
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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Law-Making and Adjudication for the Internal Market: The Role of Economic Reasoning

final version in Karl Riesenhuber (ed), European Legal Method, Intersentia (Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland) 2nd ed. 2021, 87–114
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2023
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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EU law, internal market, law and economics, economic constitution, choice of regulatory level, fundamental freedoms

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Damages Actions Against Digital Gatekeepers for Breaches of EU Antitrust Law and the DMA: A German Perspective

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 May 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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damages actions, injunction actions, antitrust law, digital gatekeepers, digital platforms

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Implementing and Enforcing the EU's Digital Gatekeeper Regulation: A German Perspective on the Role of National Authorities

forthcoming in Francesco Decarolis, Barbara Marchetti and Luisa Torchia (eds), The EU Digital Regulation and its Impact on Member States, Springer 2025
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 May 2025
Jens-Uwe Franck
University of Mannheim
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digital gatekeeper, regulation, DMA, DSA, public enforcement, competition law, merger law, Digital Services Coordinator JEL classification: K21, K23, K42, L43