Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control regimes and recently a number of European politicians...

The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...

Can competition law also take into account effects on privacy or should privacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper we are analysing the German Facebook case, in which certain terms of service (that force consumers to give consent for...

This paper deals with the application of the SIEC test in German merger control using the decision by the Bundeskartellamt (German Federal Cartel Office) in the Edeka/ Kaiser’s Tengelmann case (file no. B2-96/14) as an example. The focus is on two aspects which are of particular interest from...

Rather than focussing on specific details this article offers an economic reflection on the recent reform of EU Merger Control as a whole. It analyses the „more economic approach“ with regard to the European Commission‘s own objective of greater legal certainty. Therefore, the conception...

Diese Arbeit analysiert die für Pressefusionen maßgeblichen Vorschriften des GWB in rechtsvergleichender Perspektive und hinterfragt die Eignung des Kartellrechts zur Sicherung der Pressevielfalt. Ausgehend von einer Untersuchung der verfassungsrechtlichen und medienökonomischen Grundlagen...