The platform economy is subject to increasingly intense competition law enforcement. One part of the platform economy — the peer-to-peer (P2P) economy — has so far largely evaded scrutiny by competition law authorities. As this contribution shows, this is not necessarily because of a...

It is often argued that most favoured nation clauses (‘MFNs’) should be assessed on a case-by-case basis given the perceived lack of a coherent theory guiding their assessment. This article asks whether this is the case: do we lack an assessment framework of MFNs under EU competition law? In...

While online platforms are an enforcement priority for European competition authorities, the latter are only now turning their attention to app stores (after having scrutinized, among others, hotel booking websites, search engines and online marketplaces). However, app stores can be...

While abuse of dominance fines have received plenty of attention, most of the European Commission’s fines target cartels. The Fining Guidelines, in particular their most recent version (2006), have increased the transparency of how the Commission calculates those fines. However, the precise...