Is google the next microsoft: Competition, welfare and regulation in online search

Review of Network Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pollock, Rufus ^a  

^a EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antitrust; competition; platform markets; regulation; search engine

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051997609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14469022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1240     Document Type: Article

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