Thesis Title
Global approaches to regulating competition in digital markets

Bio and research description
Digital platforms now act as intermediaries in a growing range of markets, including online shopping, social media, search, housing, advertising markets, and in the coordination of labour hire. As intermediaries, digital platforms exert significant power over those businesses, workers, and consumers who find themselves on either end of its chokepoints. This position of market power has increasingly fuelled allegations of anticompetitive behaviour, putting pressure on governments worldwide to address the economic harms of platform dominance.
This thesis investigates three major ways that governments across the globe have responded to pressure to regulate competition in the platform economy: first, the News Media Bargaining Code in Australia, second, the European Digital Markets Act, and last, antitrust approaches in the US.

Supervisor
Jake Goldenfein, Melbourne University