Digital Era Competition: A BRICS View. Report by the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre

2019.

Ivanov A., Lianos I., Lundqvist B., Yu Q., Войниканис Е. А., Semenova E., Kotova D., Перевощикова Е. Ю., Харитонов И. В., Позднякова А. Э., Karliuk M., Avdasheva S. B., Лубамбо Д. М., da Silva Pereira Neto C. M., de Azevedo P. F., Kumar U., Gupta S., Ghosh P., Bhattacharya S., Bose A., Gupta I., Singh M., Wang X., Hou L., Fang X., Xue J., Wang B., Davis D., Paremoer T., Raslan A., McLean A., Eller K. H., Kleinschmitt T., Roujia M., Luyao P., Bettiol H. M., Darr A.

Under the general editorship: Ivanov A., Lianos I.

The report engages with one of the most crucial questions of our time, the public governance of the digital economy, in particular focusing on the new forms of competitive interaction in the era of digital capitalism. New questions emerge out of the transition from the old to the new economy, which require ‘outside of the box thinking’ in order to inform policymakers and help to broaden the current narratives. Competition authorities have recently engaged in significant preparatory work, often in partnership with academics, in order to reflect on the challenges set by the digital economy to modern competition law enforcement. There have been a number of insightful reports already published the last few months and more work in the making. None of these reports has nevertheless so far engaged with the rapidly developing digital economy of emerging and developing jurisdictions, and in particular the BRICS, which represent a third of the world economy and a significant part of the global digital economy.

Keywords: BRICS, digital economy, Competition