Economics rightfully represents the major basis for competition policy. Next to generating knowledge about competition and its welfare effects, the currently popular "more-economic approach" is charged with a number of additional hopes and expectations, leading to a reduction of the ambiguities...

An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...

The world of audiovisual online markets is rapidly changing. Not long ago, it was dominated by linear television, transmitted terrestrially, through cable networks or via satellite. Recently, streaming services such as Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime and others have emerged as new suppliers of...