The impact assessments of the DMA and DSA were thin on economic analysis – a point that the Regulatory Scrutiny Board has underscored in both instances.8 There are general economic motivations – including the reduction of network effects in the case of the DMA and the combat against counterfeit products in the case of the DSA – that are reasonable and connect with established knowledge and researc. [...] Equally important, current analyses of the economic consequences of the proposed digital regulations – the DMA, the DSA and the AI regulation – don’t cover the distributional economic effects, the effects across countries and sectors in the EU. [...] In the next chapter, we will present an analysis of the importance of the economic structure and the policy environment for understanding the consequences of regulation in the digital economy. [...] These sectors are in the North and the EU6 groups – more in the latter than the former – and are placed in the upper right corner of Figure 3.2. [...] And the general observation is that the intensity of transactional and online platforms is higher in the North than in the EU6 (and, of course, the CEE).
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