Pride and Prejudice: Investigations & Mergers in Digital Markets from a Developing World’s Viewpoint

By Elisa V. Mariscal & Alexander Elbittar

While in the developed world there has been a growing interest in studying, opining, critiquing, and publicly acknowledging their mea culpa in a very lax application of agencies’ competition enforcement in digital markets, agencies in developing countries have been trying to play catch up. Without detracting from the need to revisit and more carefully analyze anticompetitive conducts that can occur or may arise from market interactions among firms