Digital platforms play a crucial role in facilitating trade, global transactions, and personal interactions. This key position has also allowed them to amass significant power, turning them into gatekeepers that can impose terms they would not be able to impose if they were constrained by competition. Strong network effects and switching costs makes their hegemony virtually unchallengeable.
On 18-19 April 2024, CUHK LAW will hold a conference on “Digital Platforms and Competition Law: Glocal Trends and Challenges” to explore the crucial issue of how to curb the harmful conduct of digital platforms while at the same time allowing them to provide the essential services we have come to depend on.
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