We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...

We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...

Competition is a vital component of, not only functioning market economies but also of democratic legal and political systems. In Europe, one of the key historical lessons so prominently advanced by the Ordoliberals was the concern about repercussions of concentrated market power and political...

The practice of the Slovak competition authority does not offer any specific guidance concerning competition law enforcement in the digital era. In Slovakia, no infringement decisions concerning digital business practices have been adopted yet, nor is there any case under investigation

European Union Antitrust Laws have been successfully applied to anti-competitive behavior, which can take place abroad, but have an effect within the EU. Under Antitrust Laws, not only abuse of dominant position practices but also mergers that restrain competition are regarded as illegal and...

EU copyright legislation has cultivated the constraining function of the three-step test known from Article 9(2) of the Berne Convention, Article 13 TRIPS and Article 10 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Instead of transposing into EU law the dualistic concept of these international provisions –...

With the draft Data Act, the European Commission placed data access high on the agenda for regulating the network economy. Those corporations who have de facto control over data collected with smart devices can exclude others from markets and may decide on the success of third parties in...