We are excited to present two tools to facilitate your research on digital competition: The SCiDA Database and the SCiDA DMA Explorer!
The SCiDA Database – Start your comparative research on digital competition here!
Content The SCiDA Database is an up-to-date collection of official documents such as decisions, press releases and other policy documents related to the European Digital Markets Act (DMA), Sec. 19a of the German Competition Act (GWB) and the UK Digital Markets Competition and Consumer Act (DMCCA). It includes more than 400 entries dating from 2020 […]
SCiDA’s Digital Markets Regulation Review of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the SCiDA (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age) project reflects on a year of remarkable academic output, policy engagement, and collaborative research that has shaped discourse around digital markets regulation across Europe and beyond. Our team has grown and evolved, our research has deepened, and our contributions to the […]
TEST SCiDA 2026 Conference on Shaping Competition in the Digital Age: Towards Best Practices
Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions from scholars for a conference on the shaping of competition in the digital age, taking place on 26-27 May 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We are particularly looking forward to contributions that focus on the regulatory regimes in the EU (Digital Markets Act), the UK (Digital Markets Competition & Consumers […]
SCiDA Conference 2026: Shaping Competition in the Digital Age – Towards Best Practices
In response to the rise of digital platforms and ecosystems, an increasing number of jurisdictions have been rethinking their competition law regimes, resulting in amended policies or novel legislation for digital markets. The DMA in the European Union, the DMCCA in the United Kingdom, and Section 19a GWB in Germany stand as pioneering examples. The […]
Latest SCiDA Activities
SCiDA Submission to the Consultation on the 2025 DMA Review The SCiDA Project has submitted its response to the European Commission’s consultation on the 2025 review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Our detailed recommendations, available at SSRN, draw on two years of comparative research analyzing digital markets regulation across the EU, UK, and Germany. […]
Welcome to the SCiDA Project!
What is the SCiDA Project? Welcome to the SCiDA blog! On March 1st 2024, we have kicked off our project “Shaping Competition in the Digital Age”. In this project, we study the implementation and early enforcement of three new regulatory initiatives: the Digital Markets Act at the EU level, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers […]