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Digital mergers don't deserve 'knee-jerk' suspicion, Regibeau says

By Natalie McNelis* ( February 20, 2020, 15:38 GMT | Insight) -- With tech company mergers, regulators must be very careful about “guessing” where the market is going, the European Commission’s new chief economist Pierre Regibeau has said. He rejected what he called an “almost knee-jerk reaction” that digital markets are “tipping markets,” where consumers all converge on one platform and are reluctant to shift later.With tech company mergers, regulators must be very careful about "guessing" where the market is going, the European Commission's new chief economist Pierre Regibeau told a conference in London yesterday.** ...

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