We discuss three important cases that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has completed over the past year: First, the coronavirus pandemic has had implications for a wide range of the CMA’s work; we describe the work on price gouging conducted by the CMA’s Covid-19 taskforce and respond to the argument that competition authorities should not be concerned about such behaviour. Second, a number of high-profile studies have considered the appropriate application of competition policy in digital industries. The second two cases—the Online Platforms and Digital Advertising market study, and the Google/Looker merger—show the work the CMA has continued to do in this area.

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CMA 的最新动态：2019–2020

我们讨论了竞争和市场管理局 (CMA) 在过去一年中完成的三个重要案例：首先，冠状病毒大流行对 CMA 的广泛工作产生了影响；我们描述了 CMA 的 Covid-19 工作组开展的价格欺诈工作，并回应了竞争主管机构不应关注此类行为的论点。其次，一些备受瞩目的研究考虑了竞争政策在数字产业中的适当应用。后两个案例——在线平台和数字广告市场研究，以及 Google/Looker 合并——展示了 CMA 在这一领域继续开展的工作。