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On Gatekeepers and Structural Competition Problems

The Digital Age saw the rise of several rapidly growing digital platforms with substantial market shares, and this development is expected to continue. Europe is a large target market for these globally operating platforms, although the majority of the most successful platforms come from the USA and...

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Autores principales: Rusche, Christian, Büchel, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8339695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34376867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10272-021-0986-5
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