This study has been commissioned by the Competition Directorate- General of the European Commission (from hereon DG Competition) to develop “a detailed methodological approach for the ex-post review of European Commission decisions in the field of merger control, namely for assessing the...

Um den Richtern in den Mitgliedstaaten bei der Anwendung des Beihilferechts zu helfen, hat dieGeneraldirektion Wettbewerb die wichtigsten EU-Vorschriften für staatliche Beihilfen und dieentsprechenden Orientierungshilfen der Kommission zusammengestellt. Andere Sprachfassungen dieserUnterlagen...

This is a report on aspects of the interface between competition law and patent law. Competition authorities have long been aware of the potentially difficult relationship between these two bodies of Law. At the level of the EU, this relationship has already been abundantly discussed in both the...

The "new industrial organisation" enshrined in game theory has elaborated important concepts, models and typologies that reveal the richness of corporate conduct. To some extent, these developments have improved the quality of analyses in European antitrust policy. Three illustrations are...