In digital markets, antitrust law and special regulations aim to ensure that markets remain competitive despite the dominating role that digital platforms play today in everyone's life. Unlike traditional markets, market participant behavior is easily observable in these markets. We present a series of empirical investigations into the extent to which Amazon engages in practices that are typically described as self-preferencing. We discuss how the computer science tools used in this paper can be used in a regulatory environment that is based on algorithmic auditing and requires regulating digital markets at scale.

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反垄断、亚马逊和算法审计

在数字市场中，尽管数字平台在当今每个人的生活中发挥着主导作用，但反垄断法和特殊法规的目的是确保市场保持竞争力。与传统市场不同，这些市场中的市场参与者行为很容易观察到。我们对亚马逊从事通常被描述为自我偏好的做法的程度进行了一系列实证调查。我们讨论如何在基于算法审计并需要大规模监管数字市场的监管环境中使用本文中使用的计算机科学工具。