Edited by David Bosco, Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, France and Michal S. Gal, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa, Israel

'This is an impressive book, featuring contributions from all over the world and organized around a critical, under-examined theme: What assumptions are relied on in competition law analysis, and are they fit for the purpose as applied to globalized and digitalized markets? The reader will find some new voices and fresh thinking, as typically assembled and provoked by ASCOLA, the international academic society of competition law researchers.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I NEW CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE1 Cooperation, dependence, and eviction: howplatform-to-business coopetition relationships should beaddressed in mobile telephony ecosystems 2Frédéric Marty and Julien Pillot2 Technological tying: unbundling the assumptions 22Stephen Dnes3 Understanding the role of agricultural data on marketpower in the emerging Digital Agriculture sector: a criticalanalysis of the Bayer/Monsanto decision 41Can AtikPART II NEW CHALLENGES TO EMERGING COUNTRIES4 Merger control in China’s digital economy: challenges andprospects 80Wei Han and Yajie Gao5 The adoption of specialised competition tribunals in LatinAmerican countries: transplants and commonalities among them 106Claudia O’Kane6 Where influence lies in the international competition network 124Christopher Townley7 Cartels’ little helpers: a comparative study of the case lawregarding the facilitators of collusion in Europe, UnitedStates and South America 161Andrés CalderónPART III NEW INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES8 Public interest considerations in European merger control regimes 184Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr9 Formalism, fairness and freedom of contract: abuse ofdominance in the UK courts and the business ‘Achillesheel’ of objective justification 206Barry J. Rodger10 Using trade tools to counteract anticompetitive conductwithin global value chains: competition chapters in tradeagreements 238Galyna KostiukevychIndex

Edited by David Bosco, Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, France and Michal S. Gal, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa, Israel

'This is an impressive book, featuring contributions from all over the world and organized around a critical, under-examined theme: What assumptions are relied on in competition law analysis, and are they fit for the purpose as applied to globalized and digitalized markets? The reader will find some new voices and fresh thinking, as typically assembled and provoked by ASCOLA, the international academic society of competition law researchers.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I NEW CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE1 Cooperation, dependence, and eviction: howplatform-to-business coopetition relationships should beaddressed in mobile telephony ecosystems 2Frédéric Marty and Julien Pillot2 Technological tying: unbundling the assumptions 22Stephen Dnes3 Understanding the role of agricultural data on marketpower in the emerging Digital Agriculture sector: a criticalanalysis of the Bayer/Monsanto decision 41Can AtikPART II NEW CHALLENGES TO EMERGING COUNTRIES4 Merger control in China’s digital economy: challenges andprospects 80Wei Han and Yajie Gao5 The adoption of specialised competition tribunals in LatinAmerican countries: transplants and commonalities among them 106Claudia O’Kane6 Where influence lies in the international competition network 124Christopher Townley7 Cartels’ little helpers: a comparative study of the case lawregarding the facilitators of collusion in Europe, UnitedStates and South America 161Andrés CalderónPART III NEW INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES8 Public interest considerations in European merger control regimes 184Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr9 Formalism, fairness and freedom of contract: abuse ofdominance in the UK courts and the business ‘Achillesheel’ of objective justification 206Barry J. Rodger10 Using trade tools to counteract anticompetitive conductwithin global value chains: competition chapters in tradeagreements 238Galyna KostiukevychIndex

Edited by David Bosco, Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, France and Michal S. Gal, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa, Israel

'This is an impressive book, featuring contributions from all over the world and organized around a critical, under-examined theme: What assumptions are relied on in competition law analysis, and are they fit for the purpose as applied to globalized and digitalized markets? The reader will find some new voices and fresh thinking, as typically assembled and provoked by ASCOLA, the international academic society of competition law researchers.'

• Contents:Introduction viiiPART I NEW CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE1 Cooperation, dependence, and eviction: howplatform-to-business coopetition relationships should beaddressed in mobile telephony ecosystems 2Frédéric Marty and Julien Pillot2 Technological tying: unbundling the assumptions 22Stephen Dnes3 Understanding the role of agricultural data on marketpower in the emerging Digital Agriculture sector: a criticalanalysis of the Bayer/Monsanto decision 41Can AtikPART II NEW CHALLENGES TO EMERGING COUNTRIES4 Merger control in China’s digital economy: challenges andprospects 80Wei Han and Yajie Gao5 The adoption of specialised competition tribunals in LatinAmerican countries: transplants and commonalities among them 106Claudia O’Kane6 Where influence lies in the international competition network 124Christopher Townley7 Cartels’ little helpers: a comparative study of the case lawregarding the facilitators of collusion in Europe, UnitedStates and South America 161Andrés CalderónPART III NEW INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES8 Public interest considerations in European merger control regimes 184Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr9 Formalism, fairness and freedom of contract: abuse ofdominance in the UK courts and the business ‘Achillesheel’ of objective justification 206Barry J. Rodger10 Using trade tools to counteract anticompetitive conductwithin global value chains: competition chapters in tradeagreements 238Galyna KostiukevychIndex