In almost all sectors, online services play a much larger role than a few years ago. Data-driven platform models combine an ever greater degree of market power. The associated concentration effect leads to the displacement of medium-sized companies from the market. When looking at the large...

In almost all sectors, online services play a much larger role than a few years ago. Data-driven platform models combine an ever greater degree of market power. The associated concentration effect leads to the displacement of medium-sized companies from the market. When looking at the large...

Various internet platforms have rapidly developed into central points of everyday life, for private individuals as well as for companies (often dominated by a single or a few companies). At the same time these internet platforms are advancing into more and more areas of business. This creates...

Various internet platforms have rapidly developed into central points of everyday life, for private individuals as well as for companies (often dominated by a single or a few companies). At the same time these internet platforms are advancing into more and more areas of business. This creates...

Digitization has changed economic activity in many ways. While digitization has contributed to a very dynamic development of markets and competition, concerns are also being expressed about powerful positions of some companies. The digital transformation poses new challenges for companies,...

Although Europe remains the world's largest economic area it indicates a phase of relative decline due to the lack of its dynamism. The European Union (EU) is at a crossroads and will be faced with a whole range of challenges in the coming period. The current financial and debt crisis poses...

The conventional method of defining the relevant product and geographic market was undoubtedly in the foreground of the practice of the European Commission. Since a few years we can see new approaches coming which are less based on the current practice than on economic theories, and in...

Cartels are generally acknowledged as one of the most serious forms of anti-competitive behaviour between competitors. Due to the fact that competition authorities have faced difficulties in enforcing their competition policy with respect to cartels, the leniency program represents a legal,...

The climate and energy policy faces a major challenge to limit climate change, to secure energy supplies by increased energy demand and at the same time to get out from the nuclear power technology. These parallel tasks must be solved by the European climate and energy policy. In particular, the...

Digitization has changed economic activity in many ways. While digitization has contributed to a very dynamic development of markets and competition, concerns are also being expressed about powerful positions of some companies. The digital transformation poses new challenges for companies,...