Regulating Competition in the Digital Network Industry

Jasper van den Boom (Leiden University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
04 December 2025

Management of specific areas; Jurisprudence & general issues; Competition law & Antitrust law; IT & Communications law

Series: Global Competition Law and Economics Policy

This book proposes a wholly new view on digital competition. Digital firms compete to capture parts of the digital network industry. Once they control access points for competition, they get to decide who gets to compete and how. With their superior access to information and users, incumbents become the de facto regulators of their part of the digital network. Regulation that focuses on markets cannot capture these dimensions of power and competition. The system of Progressive Ecosystem Regulation proposed in this book explains how ecosystem competition can be stimulated to create meaningful competitive pressures, open up the network, and introduce real choice for users.

By: Jasper van den Boom (Leiden University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 614g
ISBN: 9781009671699
ISBN 10: 1009671693
Series: Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 04 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; Part I. The Competitors in the Digital Network Industry; 2. A typology for digital goods, platforms, and ecosystems; 3. The Digital Network Industry: a confluence of the old and new; 4. Core platform services, the new natural monopoly?; Part II The Dynamics of Competition between Digital Ecosystems; 5. Modalities of ecosystem competition; 6. The stages of ecosystem competition – from efficient to harmful; 7. Theories of harm for ecosystem competition; Part III. A Regulatory Framework to Govern Ecosystem Competition; 8. The existing regulatory paradigms: DMA, DMCC, and Sec. 19a GWB; 9. A New Regulatory Paradigm: Progressive Ecosystem Regulation; 10. Conclusions.

Jasper van den Boom is assistant professor of EU competition law at Leiden University and external researcher in the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA) project at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is an expert in the area of digital competition and its regulation. His work focuses on competition in and between digital ecosystems, the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement, and comparative legal research for competition and antitrust matters.