The European Commission has proposed a new regulatory tool for the governance of digital markets. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) intents to limit the market behavior of so called gatekeeper companies to ensure contestable and fair digital markets. We review the provisions of the DMA both from a...

Naturally, competition policy is based on competition economics made applicable in terms of law and its enforcement. Within the different branches of competition economics, modern industrial economics, or more precisely game-theoretic oligopoly theory, has become the dominating paradigm both in...

This paper discusses the prospects and limits of combining the governance principles of multilevel governance and lead jurisdictions models for international antitrust. In doing so, it targets to contribute bridging a gap in the current world economic order, i.e. the lack of supranational...

Advances in competition economics as well as in computational and empirical methods have offered the scope for the employment of merger simulation models (MSMs) in merger-control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative...

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Analyse der deutschen und europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik, wobei eine Evaluation vergangener wettbewerbspolitischer Entscheidungen in ausgewählten Bereichen der Wettbewerbspolitik vorgenommen wird und relevante Implikationen für...

Nachdem das Bundeskartellamt die Fusion von Miba und Zollern abgelehnt hat, haben die beiden Unternehmen eine Ministererlaubnis beantragt. Dabei wurden bekannte, aber auch neue Gründe genannt, um einen Gemeinwohlvorteil des antikompetitiven Zusammenschlusses aufzuzeigen. Die Autoren untersuchen...

Standard analysis of mergers in oligopolies along the lines of the popular Farrell-Shapiro Framework (FSF) relies, regarding its policy conclusions, on the assumption that rational agents will only propose privately profitable mergers. If this assumption were held, a positive external effect of...