In this article we introduce the reader to the most important cases in competition law between the beginnings of 2012, until May 2013. Our focus is on either the novelties in the cases or on issues which might be interesting for an international readership due to the recent developments and...

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...

Das Wettbewerbsrecht umfasst alle Regeln, die der Abwehr staatlicher und privater Eingriffe in den Wettbewerb sowie dem Ausgleich negativer Folgen fehlenden Wettbewerbs dienen. "Wettbewerbsrecht und Marktregulierung" analysiert in Band 1 unter Einbezug ökonomischer Erkenntnisse die...

Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel contracts, we comprehensively document different...