The Microsoft case by the numbers: comparison between U.S. and E.U.

Pour (éventuellement) citer cette étude :
Thibault Schrepel, The Microsoft case by the numbers: comparison between U.S. and E.U., Revue Concurrentialiste, February 2014

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This post is from our new series dedicated to statistical analyses of antitrust law.
We called it: “Let’s Stat”.

Comments:

Here’s the number of times that the key notions were used:

• Lock-in : 6 times in the E.U. decision
• Lock-in : 1 times in the U.S. decision

• Network effects : 38 times in the E.U. decision
• Network effects : 12 times in the U.S. decision

• Switching costs : 2 times in the E.U. decision
• Switching costs : 0 times in the U.S. decision

• Interoperability : 317 times in the E.U. decision
• Interoperability : 0 times in the U.S. decision

• Innovation : 18 times in the E.U. decision
• Innovation : 30 times in the U.S. decision

• License : 56 times in the E.U. decision
• License : 41 times in the U.S. decision

• Predatory : 0 times in the E.U. decision
• Predatory : 7 times in the U.S. decision

• Barrier to entry : 6 times in the E.U. decision
• Barrier to entry : 16 times in the U.S. decision

• Schumpeter : 0 times in the E.U. decision
• Schumpeter : 3 times in the U.S. decision

Please note that the U.S. decision contains a little bit more than 42 000 words, while the E.U. one contains more than 140 000 words. Therefore, only proportionality really matters.

by Thibault Schrepel