Tag Archives: competition
A New Era of Consumer Protection Enforcement?
| Sector: | Competition & Antitrust. | |
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| Client: | N/A | |
| Published: | 21 November, 2024 |
The Digital Markets Competition and Consumer Act is expected to see a boom in consumer protection. Michael Grenfell, the CMA’s former executive director of enforcement told the Global Competition Review ‘consumer protection will become “as significant and as much a risk factor for businesses as antirust has been to date”‘. A key element of consumer […]
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Behavioural Insights and the CMA Google Play Case – Applying Behavioural Economics to Competition Cases
| Sector: | Competition & Antitrust. | |
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| Client: | N/A | |
| Published: | 30 September, 2024 |
In August 2024, the UK Competition and Markets Authority rejected commitments proposed by Google to resolve concerns around the Google Play billing system for in-app purchases. The CMA’s decision is one of a growing series of rulings in high-profile competition investigations and cases that have explicitly or implicitly drawn upon behavioural economics, including a number […]