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Nicholas Bloom the author of both papers is British.

Also, it's not like in economics/business science there's a European vs American distinction in publications. The European Economics Association is quite small and most European departments hire out of the American association's market, for instance

Wasn't her name Carolyn?

We've been over this several times now. Oxfam uses very disingenuous criteria, and their numbers are not to be trusted. They consider debt to be negative wealth, which means that a middle class family with no net savings and a mortgage on their house is "poorer" than a starving child with 2 cents on their pocket.

You can though. I've had them turned off for too long a time to remember what the setting was though.

This is the really problematic assumption the EU made:

*'Comparison shopping services' are fundamentally different from general purpose search engines.

If we take the Comission's POV, yes Google entered a new market and used their dominant position in an existing market to unfairly compete, breaking anti trust law (though wether that's for the benefit of the consumer or not is a fair question as well).

But I don't think they are different markets. If when you search for a web page google shows you the best result, why shouldn't it search for the best/cheapest online retailer? It's searching for the most relevant 'thing' on both cases.