The paper provides a consistency analysis of the decisions taken by the Italian Competition Authority within the 1995-2003 period, concerning its control over mergers and acquisitions. An ample database was constructed using the tools of textual analysis. This data base was generated in a...

This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...

Es handelt sich um ein Gutachten, welches die E.ON AG in Auftrag gegeben hat, um den Antrag der E.ON AG zu überprüfen, die Kontrolle über die Ruhrgas AG zu übernehmen. Einleitend wird eine Marktübersicht über den deutschen und europäischen Gasmarkt gegeben. Anschließend wird die...

In the present context of the European Single Market and the globalization among economies, mergers and acquisitions represent the means by which companies increase their competitional capacity. Real economical facts outline that traders performing activities in a competitional economical...

The article analyses the e-books history, scrutinizing the main changes that haveoccurred in the traditional publishing industry and paying attention to the elementsthat characterize the new market. In this perspective, it is thus assessed the Us andEuropean antitrust case concerning the...

In competition law, the problem of the optimal design of institutional and procedural rules concerns assessment processes of the pro- and anticompetitiveness of business behaviors. This is well recognized in the discussion about the relative merits of different assessment principles such as the...