englischEconomic research shows that competitor-based-pricing, promising to match or to beat a competitor’s lower price, can impede competition. By using these types of guarantees a firm could deter its rivals from undercutting its price because the resulting quantity effect is lower than usual. At [...]

englischHow to create data cooperations, including data pools, as accelerators of data-based competition without, in turn, creating new dangers for competition? This book addresses that hurdle interdisciplinarily. A factual and economic classification of data pools builds the ground for their [...]

englischAlthough more jurisdictions have converted to competition-based merger control rules, public interest considerations, i.e., non-competition-related considerations, still play a significant role. This work examines and compares their roles in merger control of the USA, the EU and China. These [...]

englischEfficient private antitrust enforcement is hardly conceivable without effective rules governing disclosure of evidence. The Directive 2014/104/EU intends to establish a uniform basis for disclosure, but remains silent on practical aspects such as the protection of trade secrets or the costs. [...]

englischAlgorithms are increasingly taking over firms pricing decisions. This has raised concerns about algorithms’ impact on the dynamics of markets. What are the risks and is there a need to adapt antitrust law?

At the intersection of experimental economics and antitrust law, the author examines [...]

englischWhat economic motives underlie the cross-market growth of digital gatekeepers and how can the resulting problems for competition be legally addressed? This work explores the core of this question. Based on the findings, proposals for competition regulation are developed, including an [...]

englischNot least because of the widespread shortage of skilled workers, employers are increasingly seeking to actively protect their workforce and limit wage increases associated with labour shortages. Examples from practice, particularly from the United States of America, show that employers [...]

englischThe call for more rapid interventions by the antitrust authorities in cases of imminent harm to competition is almost as old as the antitrust authorities themselves. Especially in view of the increasingly digitalised economy, such action appears to be even more urgent. The German legislator [...]

englischThe relationship between merger control and the control of anticompetitive practices has raised questions not only since the Tetra Laval case law. The present book demonstrates in which constellations a preventive intervention can be profitable, in particular against price-based exclusionary [...]

englischThis work analyzes the composition of German and European cartel fines (disgorgement and penalty part), examines the impacts of the disgorgement part in cartel, tax, and directors' and officers' liability law, and considers the effects of the disgorgement part across legal fields. In a legal [...]