Research On The Relevant Market In The Network Economy

With the accelerated economic and technological innovation, the network economy emerging industries show great vigor. The new features of the network economy prompted the original operation of the socio-economic structure of the new changes have a significant impact on people’s values, production methods and forms of competition. Network economy emerging industries, but it gradually developed into an important part of the market economy, has become the key areas of legal research and law enforcement practice. At the same time, the antitrust laws as regulate the market order to maintain competition in the Basic Law has an important role, since the date of enactment. With the booming market economy, market competition increasingly fierce, especially with the development of the Internet economy, a variety of monopolistic behavior is the rapid development of many of the new issue of monopoly, and because of the particularity of the network economy, the current the antitrust laws presents outlet lag, faces many challenges, these challenges, the law enforcement process, the relevant market definition of particular concern.The network showing network effects, making the relevant market as defined in the network economy, research and practice show many special features. However, academic research of defining the relevant market is mainly concentrated in the field of traditional economy, the lack of overall macro grasp on this issue, the main problems to solve in this paper is to define the relevant antitrust market in the traditional economic problems and new developments in the comparative analysis of the conditions of the network economy. This paper combined with the anti-trust cases in the current network economy, the Baidu case with the360and QQ contention of these two typical cases starting to analyze the difficulties and challenges caused by the definition of the network economy particularity and will give the relevant market, combined with our current law the relevant provisions of the perfect proposal for building a complete framework for defining the relevant market in the antitrust field and the maintenance of fair and orderly market competition in the network economy.At present, the context of the Internet economy, improve the existing antitrust laws to bring them into conformity with the times and the condition of our country, to create a fair and orderly competitive environment has become an important task for China’s economic and legal research. From the point of view of the current legislative situation, the network economy in the relevant market definition although mentioned but operability is not strong, which is bound to hinder the further economic development of China’s network and thus affect the healthy development of the national economy. The purpose of this study is the definition of relevant market in today’s network economy under the conditions of in-depth study, from which to explore the rules and norms of the antitrust laws in this new era of economic conditions as well as the mode of regulation of the new law, and thus the relevant market for the Internet Age defined the plight of the change and China’s anti-monopoly legislation and the improvement of law enforcement to provide a reference and inspiration.