The meeting will focus on the measurement and consequences of competition in digital markets for goods and services, including financial services, and on the impact of public policies on the degree of competition and its consequences. The meeting will be co-organized by Shilpa Aggarwal (ISB) and Amit Seru (Stanford University and NBER).

Priority topics for discussion at the conference include, but are not limited to:

• The extent to which digital platform firms have, and exercise, market power, and the consequences of this market power on goods and services as well as data.
• The effect of regulatory policies, including competition policy, in digital markets, and the measurement of policy effects in various countries.
• The role of entry in limiting the competitive power of incumbents in digital platform markets and on innovation and growth.
• Acquisitions, scale economies, and other explanations for the growth of “mega-firms” in the digital economy.

The conference will spotlight research on the India and the South Asian region, but studies of other regions are welcome, particularly when their findings have broad implications for the analysis of digital market competition.