The election of the new democratic administration in the United States in November 2008 was overwhelmingly greeted in Europe as an opportunity to reinforce transatlantic cooperation and convergence in competition law and policy. This study evaluates the plausibility of greater convergence...

We analyze a search engine market from a law and economics perspective and incorporate the choice of quality improving innovations by a search engine platform in a two-sided model of internet search engine. In the proposed framework we first discuss the legal issues the search engine market...

The vertical/horizontal distinction is an important feature of modern competition law.This paper will first examine the genealogy of the vertical/horizontal dichotomy in the United States (US) and in European Communities (EC) competition law. It will then analyse the application of the dichotomy...

The recently published EU Commission guidance introduces a sharp dichotomy between price and non-price exclusionary conduct. For price-related conduct, only the exclusion of at least as equally efficient competitors as the dominant firm triggers antitrust intervention. The Commission recognizes...

We present a model of a market failure based on a requirement provision by digital platforms in the acquisition of personal information from users of other products/services. We establish the economic harm from the market failure and the requirement using traditional antitrust methodology....

The policy paper contains written evidence on the effects of Brexit on competition law in the UK submitted by Ioannis Lianos, Deni Mantzari, Florian Wagner von Papp, and Florence Thepot to the EU Internal Market Lords Select Sub-Committee, which was published on the Parliament website.The report...

In both the US and the EU, the antitrust category of “sham litigation” (in the US) or “vexatious litigation” (in the EU) enables a plaintiff, or a defendant in case this action forms part of a counterclaim, to argue that the introduction of litigation may constitute, under certain...