Mapping Antitrust onto Digital Ecosystems

The assessment of “ecosystem power” has come to occupy centerstage in antitrust cases involving large digital firms, as regulators are finding traditional market-by-market analysis increasingly inadequate to capture how competition works between firms holding multiple “assets and capabilities”. While antitrust economics is lagging behind in developing usable tools for the analysis of “ecosystems”, this is an established and growing area of study for strategic management and business