Consumer Expectations and Fair Contracting for Digital Products

Ennis, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-5788 (2022) Consumer Expectations and Fair Contracting for Digital Products. CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 2022 (July).

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Abstract

The formation of consumer expectations for digital products affects competition between digital platforms that offer competing products. Unfair competition may occur if the competitive outcome is influenced my misled expectations, notably if the company that wins the competition either misled consumers or did not affirmatively correct consumer expectations that were incorrect. The ability to exploit customers whose expectations have been misled is particularly strong for networks that have tipped, as outside alternatives for dissatisfied consumers may no longer be realistic or viable alternatives for consumers. Unilateral deviations by a company’s product away from the future product expectations that have been created around their products may be unfair and create anti-competitive outcomes in growing digital markets.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
Related URLs:	https://www.competitionpolicyinternation...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2022 13:30
Last Modified:	24 May 2023 05:40
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88188
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