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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">diright</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Digital Law Journal</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Цифровое право</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2686-9136</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Maxim Inozemtsev</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.38044/2686-9136-2022-3-2-69-82</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">diright-110</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ARTICLES</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Behavioral economics as a tool for adapting antitrust legislation to the digital transformation of society</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Поведенческая экономика как инструмент адаптации законодательства о конкуренции к цифровой трансформации общества</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Алферова</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Alferova</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Магистр права</p><p>3584, Утрехт, ул. Гейдельберглаан, 8</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Anastasiya A. Alferova — LLM</p><p>8, Heidelberglaan, CS Utrecht, 3584</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">bobyleva.law@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Университет Утрехта</institution><country>Нидерланды</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Utrecht University</institution><country>Netherlands</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>07</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>69</fpage><lpage>82</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Alferova A.A., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Алферова А.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Alferova A.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.digitallawjournal.org/jour/article/view/110">https://www.digitallawjournal.org/jour/article/view/110</self-uri><abstract><p>Digitalization and the rapid development of society determine the need to adapt legislation and law enforcement practice to the requirements of the digital age. Antitrust policy is also changing and developing tools that allow timely response to the challenges of the digital economy. One such tool is behavioral economics, which is becoming increasingly important in today’s digital environment, and allows regulators to be flexible and contribute to the achievement of the main goals of competition law — to maintain a competitive state of the market and avoid the concentration of excessive power in the hands of one economic entity.</p><p>The practice of applying behavioral economics by antitrust authorities is becoming more extensive, as there is a large pool of data in the digital environment, including information about consumers, which can be used by companies to influence users, as well as lead to unfair competition. Thus, the paper will study the issue of using behavioral economics in terms of consumer choice by antitrust authorities in order to identify possible behavioral insights of consumers that affect the correct establishment of product markets and the identification of competition law violations by companies.</p><p>Applying the legal doctrinal approach, the descriptive method, and the comparative law method makes it possible to establish the issue’s relevance in different countries and the prospects and trajectories of the usage of behavioral economics in antitrust practice.</p><p>As a result of the study, a global trend has been established in the application of behavioral economics by antitrust authorities both in determining the boundaries of commodity markets and in detecting violations of antitrust laws. It is concluded that the use of such a tool will continue, as it contributes to the timely adaptation of existing antitrust laws to the challenges of the digital age, contributes to the achievement of competition law goals, and creates a thriving competitive environment.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Цифровизация и стремительное развитие общества определяют необходимость адаптации законодательства и правоприменительной практики к требованиям цифровой эпохи. Антимонопольная политика также претерпевает изменения и разрабатывает инструменты, которые позволяют своевременно реагировать на вызовы цифровой экономики. Одним из таких инструментов является поведенческая экономика, которая приобретает всю большую значимость в современной цифровой среде и позволяет регулирующим органам проявлять гибкость и способствовать достижению основных целей законодательства о конкуренции —сохранение конкурентного состояния рынка и недопущение концентрации избыточной власти в руках одного хозяйствующего субъекта.</p><p>Практика применения поведенческой экономики антимонопольными органами становится все более обширной, поскольку в цифровой среде находится большой пул данных, в том числе о потребителях, который может быть использован компаниями для влияния на пользователей, что может привести к недобросовестной конкуренции. Таким образом, в статье будет изучен вопрос использования антимонопольными органами поведенческой экономики в части потребительского выбора с целью установления возможных поведенческих особенностей потребителей, которые влияют на корректное определение товарных рынков и идентификацию нарушений конкурентного законодательства компаниями.</p><p>Применение юридического доктринального подхода, описательного м етода и метода сравнительного правоведения позволит установить актуальность темы в разных странах, перспективы и траектории применения поведенческой экономики в антимонопольной практике.</p><p>В результате исследования установлен глобальный тренд в применении поведенческой экономики антимонопольными органами как при определении границ товарных рынков, так и для выявления нарушений антимонопольного законодательства. Делается вывод, что использование подобного инструмента будет продолжаться, поскольку содействует своевременной адаптации существующего антимонопольного законодательства к вызовам цифровой эпохи, способствует достижению целей законодательства о конкуренции и создает процветающую конкурентную среду.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>поведенческая экономика</kwd><kwd>бихевиоризм</kwd><kwd>антимонопольное законодательство</kwd><kwd>доминирующее положение</kwd><kwd>злоупотребление доминирующим положением</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>behavioral economics</kwd><kwd>behaviorism</kwd><kwd>antitrust law</kwd><kwd>dominant position</kwd><kwd>abuse of dominance</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Beinhocker, E. (2006). The origin of wealth: Evolution, complexity and the radical remaking of economics. 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