Do established firms buy new businesses to take out future competition? Recent works in economics literature use “killer acquisitions” as a graphic concept to describe these transactions. How concerned should competition policy be? The answer to this question hinges on how much the...

Turkish Abstract: Avrupa Birliği Genel Mahkemesi, 10 Kasım 2021 tarihinde uzun süredir beklenen Google (Shopping) kararını açıklamıştır. Karar, Avrupa rekabet hukukunun hâkim durumun kötüye kullanıldığı teşebbüs davranışlarına uygulanması bakımından olduğu kadar,...

This Article aims to delineate the extent to which potentially anticompetitive behavior that simultaneously improve user privacy are cognizable as efficiencies or objective justifications within the context of unilateral conduct cases in European competition law. After mapping the existing...

Pandemic-induced economic shocks saw the European Commission and national competition authorities adopt so-called comfort letters to provide guidance, assurance, and legal certainty to undertakings in order to help mitigate the detrimental effects of the crisis. Whereas it is true that desperate...

Fossil fuel subsidies have negative consequences on the climate change, public budgets and and the transition to an environmentally friendly economy. Nevertheless, governments do not keep up with their commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies but misallocate again COVID-19 recovery funds...

The European Union and China have been negotiating an investment agreement with a comprehensive scope including the improvement of market access conditions for investors. Albeit a pressing issue, progress has been plagued with challenges. The problems regarding access especially to Chinese...