Abstract
The platform economy has become a new engine and leading force for China’s economic development. With the rapid development of super internet platforms, this field has drawn growing attention from attention of anti-monopoly authorities. The technical attributes and business characteristics of the platform economy endow those platforms with a “natural” monopoly advantage, and the quasi-public attributes of the internet platforms require anti-monopoly authorities to bear more monopoly governance responsibilities. This paper analyzes the difficulties in monopoly governance of the platform economy from the perspectives of anti-monopoly legislation, government regulation and global monopoly governance, and proposes several solutions and suggestions to improve the effectiveness of anti-monopoly governance and promote healthy development of the digital economic ecology. The solutions and suggestions include: focusing on building up technologybased regulatory capabilities, accelerating the legislation on data protection of data, and developing an anti-monopoly system based on the principle of giving priority to innovation.
Recommended Citation
Jin, Zhang and Yuxin, Yu
(2021)
"The Monopoly and Governance of the Platform Economy in the Digital Era,"
Contemporary Social Sciences:
No.
3, Article 8.
Available at:
https://css.researchcommons.org/journal/vol2021/iss3/8