European Commission White Paper on Leveling the Playing Field as Regards...
By: Chantal Lavoie (Lavoie Legal)
The European Commission released for consultation on 17 June 2020 its much-awaited white paper on levelling the playing field as...
EU Merger Control Reform – What To Expect in 2021 and...
By: Jay Modrall (Informa Connect)
The European Union (EU) has embarked on the most extensive antitrust reform program in its history. The European Commission (Commission)...
Antitrust Law in Times of Crisis = Crisis of Antitrust Law?
Marcel Nuys & Florian Huerkamp, D'Kart
The virus challenges everything – competition law is no exception to that rule. Marcel Nuys and Florian Huerkamp give a first account of...
“Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying
By Tommaso Valletti (ProMarket)
Research on market power, its causes, and its consequences has received a welcome revival in the past few years. A group of...
Nigeria’s Foreign-to-Foreign Merger Control Regime
By: Michael-James Currie & Camilla Johnson (African Antitrust)
Antitrust enforcement is on the rise across Africa. Many jurisdictions are developing competition authorities and endorsing legislation with...
Do Plans for a European Super League Breach Competition Law?
By: Andreas Stephan (UEA Center for Competition Policy)
The world of European football was thrown into controversy this week by the announcement that 12 leading clubs...
It’s Official: The Draft Bill GWB10
By Rupprecht Podszun, D'Kart
Today, the German Federal Ministry of Economics officially published the draft bill on the new competition law. For months we have...
Hub-and-Spoke Antitrust Conspiracies and the Classic Case of Toys “R” Us...
Jarod Bona; The Antitrust Attorney
Like life, sometimes antitrust conspiracies are
complicated. Not everything always fits into a neat little package. An
articulate soundbite or an attractive...
Apple App Store’s Commission Rates Study Misses the Mark
By: Damien Geradin (The Platform Law Blog)
On 22 July 2020, i.e. a few days away from the Congressional hearing (which may however be postponed) where...
How to deal with Big Tech mergers
Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz; Vox EU
Big Tech companies frequently acquire other firms, many of them start-ups. In a recent prominent report, Furman et al. (2019)...
