In most countries, regulation of digital platforms and ecosystems has emerged quite recently. This regulation shouldconsider the specifics of platform business models, characterized by network effects, access to big data, assets mobilityand lightness, and large economies of scale and scope.This article examines the trends in global economy digitalization, as well as factors and directions of digitalplatformsʼ impact on different economic indicators. The analysis serves as the basis for conceptual recommendationsto improve regulation of digital platforms in Russia.Key recommendations are related to the development and legislative adoption of definitions for digital platformsand ecosystems, the development of special measures to support national platforms (based on certain criteria fortheir classification as national enterprises), the amendment in, and improvement to, antimonopoly regulation, andthe establishment of interdepartmental coordination and interaction with relevant stakeholders.

The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme

This article was submitted 28.07.2023