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Cowan, Simon, Ormosi, Peter 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-6511 and Perkins, Joe
(2025)
New directions in competition policy:an overview.
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 40 (4).
pp. 687-695.
ISSN 0266-903X
Abstract
Competition policy has faced increasing scrutiny in recent years, with tension between traditional antitrust frameworks and contemporary critiques, including the 'hipster antitrust' movement. Some of the critics contend that competition policy has failed to address the growing market power of dominant firms, especially in the digital sector. This issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy explores the validity of these claims and their potential implications for the future of competition policy. It also examines how emerging methodologies, particularly those rooted in data science, can enhance our understanding both of how firms behave and how competition authorities and courts make decisions. This article summarizes a diverse range of contributions from academics, regulators, and practitioners in law and economics. It concludes with a discussion of how competition economics might adapt to the challenges posed by the hipster antitrust movement and the rapid changes in how firms compete.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | competition policy,consumer welfare standard,evaluation,neo-brandeisian critique,post-chicago consensus,economics and econometrics,management, monitoring, policy and law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2026 15:19 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2026 15:19 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103516 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxrep/graf001 |
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