Leveraging market power through tying and bundling
Subtitle: does Google behave anti-competitively?
By: Benjamin Edelman
Contributors: Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 14-112; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 14-112.
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Description: I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying and bundling to leverage its dominance into new sectors under antitrust law principles. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial implementations of these practices, and I identify their effects on competition. I conclude that Google's tying and bundling tactics are suspect under antitrust law.
Notes: "May 2014" -- Publisher's website.