The chapter discusses the ‘revival’ of exploitative abuses in Europe. In particular, the chapter analyses the legal test and recent enforcement trends concerning excessive and discriminatory pricing, as well as unfair trading conditions under Art. 102 TFEU. The chapter concludes that the...

We investigate the capital structure of a large sample of corporations in 52 countries, focusing on the effects of macroeconomic and institutional characteristics on firms' dynamic behavior. We find that these characteristics affect both the optimal level of leverage and the adjustment process...

The article analyzes the recent judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Skanska Industrial. In its preliminary ruling, the CJEU recognized for the first time the so-called “economic succession doctrine” in damage claims concerning a breach of EU competition rules....

The advent of big data analytics has favoured the emergence of forms of price discrimination based on consumers' profiles and their online behaviour (i.e. personalised pricing). The paper analyses this practice as a possible exploitative abuse by dominant online platforms. The paper argues that,...