A judicial review of the infringement decisions of the competition authority substantially affects the standard of evidence in competition enforcement as well as the structure of cases that the competition authority takes. Enforcement against concerted practice in Russia represents a case-study...

We present a simple model where, before competing in prices, firms announce which prices they intend to choose. Deviating from these announcements involves a cost. We show that sharing pricing intentions results in prices being set above their competitive levels. All equilibria result in prices...

The welfare implications of vertical mergers have been a subject of disagreement for decades. Similar to horizontal mergers, economists need to weigh the efficiency gains relative to the market power concerns when considering the competitive effects of vertical mergers. However, in vertical...

Die französische Wettbwerbspolitik ist in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwiegend kritisch beurteilt worden. Anhand einer exemplarischen Untersuchung der Erfassung der Behinderungsstrategie wird nachgewiesen, dass ein solches Urteil mittlerweile verfehlt ist. In einer Neuinterpretation der...

Distribution cartels in the automotive sector used to be frequently dismantled and sanctioned by the European Commission and the EU Courts still some 15 years ago. In recent years, however, only a few cases have been reported at the national level of EU Member States. Is it because the...

Following the judgment of the Court of Justice and especially the Opinion of the Advocate General in the CDC Hydrogen Peroxide case, arbitration agreements on disputes concerning damages for infringements of the competition rules of the TFEU have been interpreted as being contrary to the...

A dynamic Bertrand-duopoly model where price leadership emerges in equilibrium is developed. In the price leadership equilibrium, a firm leads price changes and its competitor always matches in the next period. The firms produce a homogeneous product and are identical except for the information...

Vermehrt übernehmen Algorithmen die Preissetzung für Unternehmen. Doch wie wirkt es sich auf die Dynamiken der Märkte aus, wenn nicht mehr ausschließlich Menschen das Wettbewerbsverhalten bestimmen? Welche Risiken gibt es und bedarf es einer Anpassung des Kartellrechts? Der Autor setzt sich...

Parallel imports have been treated very differently in different countries. In the EU, competition law's very strong (per se) prohibition of restrictions to parallel imports (PI) can be justified by traditional "public interest" concerns related to the EU's objective to promote free trade and...