Active and Passive Institutional Investors and New Antitrust Challenges: Is EU Competition Law Ready?

By Marco Claudio Corradi & Anna Tzanaki –

This essay aims to disentangle the complex issues surrounding common ownership by institutional investors, and suggest a holistic approach that brings together the corporate with the competition law aspects of the problem. Accordingly, the analysis first sheds light on the corporate governance dimensions. Next, it outlines the theories of harms that correspond to the distinct forms and levels of shareholder activism or passivity. It then revis