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...

Prepared for a conference on the significance of Erich Hoppmann's contribution to competition theory and policy, the articles collected in this volume discuss central issues of the role of competition policy in a free society, including in particular issues raised by the "more economic approach"...

Das DIW Berlin veranstaltete am 26. Oktober dieses Jahres den 2. Wissenschaftlichen Roundtable "Informationsgesellschaft und Wettbewerb", der die Praxistauglichkeit des "More Economic Approach" in der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik zum Gegenstand hatte. Mit dem "More Economic Approach" gewinnt...

Only recently, competition authorities tend to agree on comparative advertising being helpful in promoting competition. They now encourage firms to use it. They reason that comparative advertising, if fair and not misleading, increases consumers' information about alternative brands. For this to...