Author: Thyme Burdon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This Goung Digital Toolkit note identifies market trends and potential consumer benefits and discusses the key challenges for consumer protection on online marketplaces, including examples of how government authorities and online marketplaces are seeking to address them. It also explores growing challenges associated with dark commercial patterns on online marketplaces, and the continued expansion of the service marketplace. The Annex provides a selection of government initiatives to enhance consumer protection on online marketplaces.
The Role of Online Marketplaces in Enhancing Consumer Protection
Author: Thyme Burdon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This Goung Digital Toolkit note identifies market trends and potential consumer benefits and discusses the key challenges for consumer protection on online marketplaces, including examples of how government authorities and online marketplaces are seeking to address them. It also explores growing challenges associated with dark commercial patterns on online marketplaces, and the continued expansion of the service marketplace. The Annex provides a selection of government initiatives to enhance consumer protection on online marketplaces.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This Goung Digital Toolkit note identifies market trends and potential consumer benefits and discusses the key challenges for consumer protection on online marketplaces, including examples of how government authorities and online marketplaces are seeking to address them. It also explores growing challenges associated with dark commercial patterns on online marketplaces, and the continued expansion of the service marketplace. The Annex provides a selection of government initiatives to enhance consumer protection on online marketplaces.
The Role of Online Marketplaces in Protecting and Empowering Consumers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Online marketplaces matching third-party sellers with consumers are now key e-commerce channels globally. Despite their popularity and the benefits they bring to consumers, they do present a number of risks, for example when their third-party sellers engage in misleading marketing and fraud, or supply unsafe products. This report summarises results from a 2021 OECD survey of 28 countries and 15 platform businesses examining the role of online marketplaces in enhancing consumer protection. The report highlights a range of encouraging initiatives by many participating countries and online marketplaces to better protect consumers, often taken in co-operation with one another, but also identifies several key areas where more action is needed.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Online marketplaces matching third-party sellers with consumers are now key e-commerce channels globally. Despite their popularity and the benefits they bring to consumers, they do present a number of risks, for example when their third-party sellers engage in misleading marketing and fraud, or supply unsafe products. This report summarises results from a 2021 OECD survey of 28 countries and 15 platform businesses examining the role of online marketplaces in enhancing consumer protection. The report highlights a range of encouraging initiatives by many participating countries and online marketplaces to better protect consumers, often taken in co-operation with one another, but also identifies several key areas where more action is needed.
Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace: Looking Ahead
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428952985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428952985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Improving Consumer Protection in the Digital Marketplace
Author: Ryan Fritsch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In broad terms, [this] project considers if or how Ontario's consumer protection legislation should be updated to better protect consumers in the digital marketplace. More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, and expansive range of consumer risks in the digital economy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In broad terms, [this] project considers if or how Ontario's consumer protection legislation should be updated to better protect consumers in the digital marketplace. More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, and expansive range of consumer risks in the digital economy.
Access to Justice in Transnational B2C E-Commerce
Author: Sutatip Yuthayotin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319111310
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce). It argues that enhancing the access to justice in a multidimensional sense can potentially offer an effective means of boosting consumer confidence. It introduces a conceptual framework for a multidimensional approach to access to justice in the context of consumer protection, describing the various reasonable criteria needed to satisfy consumer demands in B2C e-commerce. The framework, which reflects all essential aspects of consumers’ expectations when they engage in online transactions, provides a benchmark for the evaluation of various consumer protection mechanisms. Based on an analysis of different mechanisms and using the framework’s criteria, the practice of private ordering, which does not rely on the creation of rules of law but rather on the use of technology as a solution, appears to offer a meaningful way to enhance access to justice in B2C e-commerce. However, though private ordering holds considerable potential, certain weaknesses still need to be eliminated. This book demonstrates how private ordering can be successfully implemented with the help of an intermediary, a neutral third party that plays an integral part in the collaborative task of facilitating various aspects of private ordering, thus helping to limit the risks of failure and ensuring a fairer market setting. In order to move forward, it argues that the state, with its wealth of material resources and incentive options, is the institution best suited to acting as an intermediary in facilitating private ordering. This promising proposal can improve consumer protection, which will in turn boost consumer confidence.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319111310
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce). It argues that enhancing the access to justice in a multidimensional sense can potentially offer an effective means of boosting consumer confidence. It introduces a conceptual framework for a multidimensional approach to access to justice in the context of consumer protection, describing the various reasonable criteria needed to satisfy consumer demands in B2C e-commerce. The framework, which reflects all essential aspects of consumers’ expectations when they engage in online transactions, provides a benchmark for the evaluation of various consumer protection mechanisms. Based on an analysis of different mechanisms and using the framework’s criteria, the practice of private ordering, which does not rely on the creation of rules of law but rather on the use of technology as a solution, appears to offer a meaningful way to enhance access to justice in B2C e-commerce. However, though private ordering holds considerable potential, certain weaknesses still need to be eliminated. This book demonstrates how private ordering can be successfully implemented with the help of an intermediary, a neutral third party that plays an integral part in the collaborative task of facilitating various aspects of private ordering, thus helping to limit the risks of failure and ensuring a fairer market setting. In order to move forward, it argues that the state, with its wealth of material resources and incentive options, is the institution best suited to acting as an intermediary in facilitating private ordering. This promising proposal can improve consumer protection, which will in turn boost consumer confidence.
Anticipating the 21st Century: Consumer protection in the new high-tech, global marketplace
Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Organization outside Organizations
Author: Göran Ahrne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Describes the organizational aspects of contemporary society, explaining how organization occurs not only inside formal organizations, but also outside and among them.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Describes the organizational aspects of contemporary society, explaining how organization occurs not only inside formal organizations, but also outside and among them.
Regulating Data Monopolies
Author: Jingyuan Ma
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811687668
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective. The aim of this book is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the anti-competitive behavior of companies who monopolize data, and put forward the necessity of regulating data monopoly by exploring the causes and characteristics of their anti-competitive behavior. It studies four aspects of the differences between data monopoly and traditional monopolistic behavior, namely defining the relevant market for data monopolies, the entry barrier, the problem of determining the dominant position of data monopoly, and the influence on consumer welfare. It points out the limitations of traditional regulatory tools and discusses how new regulatory methods could be developed within the competition legal framework to restrict data monopolies. It proposes how economic analytical tools used in traditional anti-monopoly law are facing challenges and how competition enforcement agencies could adjust regulatory methods to deal with new anti-competitive behavior by data monopolies.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811687668
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book analyzes the business model of enterprises in the digital economy by taking an economic and comparative perspective. The aim of this book is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the anti-competitive behavior of companies who monopolize data, and put forward the necessity of regulating data monopoly by exploring the causes and characteristics of their anti-competitive behavior. It studies four aspects of the differences between data monopoly and traditional monopolistic behavior, namely defining the relevant market for data monopolies, the entry barrier, the problem of determining the dominant position of data monopoly, and the influence on consumer welfare. It points out the limitations of traditional regulatory tools and discusses how new regulatory methods could be developed within the competition legal framework to restrict data monopolies. It proposes how economic analytical tools used in traditional anti-monopoly law are facing challenges and how competition enforcement agencies could adjust regulatory methods to deal with new anti-competitive behavior by data monopolies.
The role of data for digital markets contestability
Author: Jan Krämer
Publisher: Centre on Regulation in Europe asbl (CERRE)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This report analyses the processes that turn data into economic value for online search, e-commerce and media platforms. It concludes that forcing data sharing through policy intervention would not prevent dominant incumbents to continue to benefit economically from greater access to data over new entrants. Instead, policy makers should focus on enabling niche entry, niche growth and a level playing field for competitors in new and emerging markets. Data play a central role in the business models that shape competition and innovation in digital markets. As dominant providers of online services collect ever more user data they generate data-driven network effects. They can then improve their services faster, and venture faster into related markets than competitors with less data, thereby raising entry barriers for innovative start-ups. The authors, Sally Broughton Micova (CERRE & University of East Anglia), Jan Krämer (CERRE & University of Passau) and Daniel Schnurr (University of Passau), have analysed processes that transform data into economic value for online search, e-commerce and media platforms. They find that in each case, more data, especially on user behaviour, gradually improves the quality of the service, thereby generating high economic benefits for the firm. The authors find that data-driven network effects can nevertheless be a source of efficiency which can ultimately benefit consumers. Even if some data is shared through policy intervention, dominant incumbents will continue to benefit economically and competitively from greater access to data over new entrants. “We conclude that it is neither realistic nor desirable to try to break data-driven network effects through policy intervention. Instead, we would strongly encourage policy makers to focus on enabling niche entry and niche growth. To do so, they should facilitate the sharing of behavioural user data gathered by the dominant firm with other firms.” The authors provide policy recommendations for data access remedies to safeguard competition, innovation and the openness of the digital ecosystem: 1. Remedies that achieve a more level playing field in the digital economy by breaking the data-driven network effects of data-rich incumbents should be entertained as a last resort and only under specific conditions. 2. Policy makers should foster data sharing on two levels to strike a balance between consumers’ privacy, competition and innovation. They should require the sharing of aggregated and anonymised raw user data in bulk, after a careful review and on a case-by-case basis. They should also facilitate the sharing of detailed raw user data through improved data portability, based on individual users’ consent. Bulk sharing of raw user data should be limited to data that was collected as a by-product of the incumbent’s dominant user-facing service, such as search logs, in order to maintain incentives for innovation and data collection. The main challenge will be to balance privacy concerns with maintaining enough detailed data to ensure it is of value to third-parties. 3. Dominant firms should also be obliged to allow consumers to port their raw data to another provider continuously and in real time. Privacy concerns can then be overcome and the shared user profiles can be more detailed than under bulk sharing. In concert with bulk-sharing, data portability can be a valuable source for attaining both detailed and representative data sets.
Publisher: Centre on Regulation in Europe asbl (CERRE)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This report analyses the processes that turn data into economic value for online search, e-commerce and media platforms. It concludes that forcing data sharing through policy intervention would not prevent dominant incumbents to continue to benefit economically from greater access to data over new entrants. Instead, policy makers should focus on enabling niche entry, niche growth and a level playing field for competitors in new and emerging markets. Data play a central role in the business models that shape competition and innovation in digital markets. As dominant providers of online services collect ever more user data they generate data-driven network effects. They can then improve their services faster, and venture faster into related markets than competitors with less data, thereby raising entry barriers for innovative start-ups. The authors, Sally Broughton Micova (CERRE & University of East Anglia), Jan Krämer (CERRE & University of Passau) and Daniel Schnurr (University of Passau), have analysed processes that transform data into economic value for online search, e-commerce and media platforms. They find that in each case, more data, especially on user behaviour, gradually improves the quality of the service, thereby generating high economic benefits for the firm. The authors find that data-driven network effects can nevertheless be a source of efficiency which can ultimately benefit consumers. Even if some data is shared through policy intervention, dominant incumbents will continue to benefit economically and competitively from greater access to data over new entrants. “We conclude that it is neither realistic nor desirable to try to break data-driven network effects through policy intervention. Instead, we would strongly encourage policy makers to focus on enabling niche entry and niche growth. To do so, they should facilitate the sharing of behavioural user data gathered by the dominant firm with other firms.” The authors provide policy recommendations for data access remedies to safeguard competition, innovation and the openness of the digital ecosystem: 1. Remedies that achieve a more level playing field in the digital economy by breaking the data-driven network effects of data-rich incumbents should be entertained as a last resort and only under specific conditions. 2. Policy makers should foster data sharing on two levels to strike a balance between consumers’ privacy, competition and innovation. They should require the sharing of aggregated and anonymised raw user data in bulk, after a careful review and on a case-by-case basis. They should also facilitate the sharing of detailed raw user data through improved data portability, based on individual users’ consent. Bulk sharing of raw user data should be limited to data that was collected as a by-product of the incumbent’s dominant user-facing service, such as search logs, in order to maintain incentives for innovation and data collection. The main challenge will be to balance privacy concerns with maintaining enough detailed data to ensure it is of value to third-parties. 3. Dominant firms should also be obliged to allow consumers to port their raw data to another provider continuously and in real time. Privacy concerns can then be overcome and the shared user profiles can be more detailed than under bulk sharing. In concert with bulk-sharing, data portability can be a valuable source for attaining both detailed and representative data sets.
The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Advancing Public Policy Objectives
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264115641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive view of Internet intermediaries, their economic and social function, development and prospects, benefits and costs, and roles and responsibilities.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264115641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive view of Internet intermediaries, their economic and social function, development and prospects, benefits and costs, and roles and responsibilities.