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...

Seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre ist das Beihilfenrecht aufgrund der Tätigkeit der Kommission und der Rechtsprechung der Gemeinschaftsgerichte stark fortentwickelt worden. ... Dies nimmt die Arbeit zum Anlass für eine erste Bewertung der Neuerungen und einen Ausblick auf allfällige weitere...

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...

What are the goals of the law against private restraints on competition: the protection of the individuals' freedom to compete or consumer welfare? Adrian Künzler deals with these and other questions and attempts to find answers from an epistemological, an economic, a legal and a philosophic...

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"...