On 29 March 2022, shortly after the publication of the proposal for a Data Act, the European Commission published the initiative “Access to vehicle data, functions and resources”. The background of this initiative is the long-standing conflict between vehicle manufacturers and a broad range...

Restrictions of data access for complementary services in digital (IoT) ecosystems are an increasing concern in the legal and economic discussion around the interface between competition law and data protection. The connected car and its ecosystem of innovative complementary products and...

In dieser Festschrift für Wolfgang Kerber würdigen Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Wegbegleiter und ehemalige Schüler sein wissenschaftliches Werk und Wirken in den Bereichen Wettbewerbspolitik, Rechtsökonomik sowie weiteren Teilbereichen der Wirtschaftspolitik. Zeitgemäß bilden Beiträge zu...

Abstract: Both in US antitrust and EU competition policy a development to a broader appli-cation of rule of reason instead of per se rules can be observed. In the European discussion the attempt to base competition policy on a "more economic approach" is mainly viewed as im-proving the economic...