Implications of the Digital Economy on Merger Control in Pakistan and China: Policy Implications for Pakistan

The rise of the digital economy has challenged foundation competition law frameworks world over. Today, antitrust doctrine finds itself confronting a new economy; an econo-my wherein data acts as currency, markets are without prices, market collisions based on algorithms, and is ‘infinite’. Several jurisdictions such Germany, Austria, China have developed regulations or amended existing legislations to confront chal-lenges presented by economy. A dearth theoretical empirical literature evaluated whether so fundamentally different require set rules. Of specific interest this paper current rules sufficient deal with mergers acquisitions (M&As) in markets. This assesses M&A Pakistan light Expert interviews were conducted using semi-structured investigate comparisons between Pakistan’s China’s merger control regimes. findings indicate that better adopted for than Pakistani’s. It also sets out policy implications makers Pakistan.