Free competition in the digital economy: mechanisms of protection

Recommended link to article:

NATALIA М. CHEPURNOVA^а
VALENTINA O. MURYSEVA^а

^аRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

DOI: 10.22394/2070-8378-2020-22-2-35-41

Abstract:
The article presents various approaches to the concept of ‘digital economy’, offers the author’s definition, identifies the features of state protection of competition in the context of digital economy, describes the procedure for conducting economic activities and maintaining competition in the commodity markets in the context of the development of information and communication technologies, reveals the features of the state mechanism for protecting competition in the conditions of digitalization of production of goods and services. It justifies the need to develop a holistic organizational and legal mechanism of public administration, taking into account the processes of globalization of the digital economy, and the need to change legislative approaches to ensure that new entities are taken into account in the field of competition and the coverage of public relations. Analyzing the normative legal acts of the Russian Federation related to the concept of Big Data and the processing of large amounts of data, the authors come to the conclusion about expediency of amending the clauses of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation ‘On the Strategy of information society development in Russian Federation to 2017 – 2030’ in the part on definition of the digital economy

Keywords:
state, competition, protection mechanism, digital economy, Big Data, network effect, zero price of goods, dominant position, digitalization of production

Received:
February 25, 2020

References:
Baranov V.N. Network effects in the Internet. Transportnoe delo Rossii. 2010. № 9. P. 144-146. In Russian
Borzilo E.Yu. Antimonopoly risks of business activity: scientific and practical guide. M.: Statut, 2014. In Russian
Ivanov A.Yu. Merger Review in the Digital Age: Episode one in Discussions on the Fifth Competition Law Reform Package. Zakon. 2018. № 2. P. 106–119. In Russian
Kiniov A.Yu. Administrative and legal protection of competition: problems and ways of improvement: Dr. Sci. (Law) Dissertation: 12.00.14. M., 2015. In Russian
Kiniov A.Yu. Modern problems of administrative and legal protection of competition in the Russian Federation. Aktualnye problemy rossijskogo prava. 2013. № 6. P. 679–688. In Russian
Korolev O.L., Apatova N.V., Krulikovskij A.P. Big Data as a factor in changing decision-making processes in the economy. Nauchno-tekhnicheskie vedomosti Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo politekhnicheskogo universiteta. Ekonomicheskie nauki. 2017. T. 10. № 4. P. 31–38. In Russian
Kuprevich T.S., Turban G.V. Features of the digital economy infrastructure in the world economy / Collection of articles on the materials of the IV international scientific and practical conference. 2017. P. 60–65. In Russian
Makrushin S.V. Digital economy: transformation of technologies and new economic structure. Imushchestvennye otnosheniya v Rossijskoj Federacii. 2018. № 2. P. 10–17. In Russian
Negroponte N. Being Digital. Vintage Books, 1995. In English
Plekhanov D.A. Protection of competition from state and local authorities (for example, Russia, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Lithuania, and the Republic of Belarus). Aktualnye problemy rossijskogo prava. 2017. № 3. P. 212– 219. In Russian
Smith A. The Wealth of Nations. M.: Yurajt, 2019. In English
Tapscott D. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence. McGraw-Hill, 1995. In English
Varlamova A.N. Development of Competition as an Aim of Competition Law and Ways to Achieve It. Yurist. 2018. № 11. P. 11–18. In Russian

Articles in Open Access mode are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license.