The ongoing internationalisation of business activities - including anticompetitive ones - fuels a controversial discussion about the pros and cons of implementing a supranational, global competition policy regime. This contribution presents a systematic analysis of the deficiencies of (i)...

The controversy around the breakaway European Super League, set to conquer the UEFA Champions League, and the surrounding antitrust proceedings revive the academic discussion about the monopoly power of sport-internal governing bodies (like the UEFA), the justification for and limits of their...

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Analyse der deutschen und europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik, wobei eine Evaluation vergangener wettbewerbspolitischer Entscheidungen in ausgewählten Bereichen der Wettbewerbspolitik vorgenommen wird und relevante Implikationen für...

The competition rules and policy framework of the European Union represents an important institutional restriction for doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of competition policy towards sports associations and...

The paper suggest a competition policy agenda strategy for industrializing countries, i.e. countries that do not have fully established market economies yet but already have progressed some way on the road to industrialization. It especially emphasizes that some features of advanced competition...

This chapter discusses the independence of competition authorities and addresses the question whether an independent European competition authority would perform a better competition policy than the competition office of the European Commission, which is not independent but, instead, integral...

In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- I. Internationale Megafusionen auf globalisierten Märkten -- II. Wettbewerb und Wettbewerbspolitik -- III. Vorteile und Gefahren von Fusionen auf globalen Märkten -- IV. Internationale Fusionen und wirksame Wettbewerbspolitik -- Literatur -- Register --...