Recent changes in national competition laws and enforcement guidelines, including those of the European Commission, increase the scope for considering sustainability benefits in the assessment of horizontal cooperations. Abstracting from (standard) arguments that relate to cost sharing,...

Spurred by recent publications of NACs, there is an ongoing debate on whether and, if so, how competition law and its enforcement shall give due consideration to concerns of sustainability, notably (though not exclusively) environmental sustainability. With respect to horizontal agreements, we...

While consumer sustainability benefits exhibit particular characteristics, e.g., as they are typically based on non-use value, they can be measured by standard instruments as applied in environmental cost-benefit analysis, such as conjoint analysis and contingent valuation. Their measurement may...

Agencies around the world are in the process of developing taxonomies and standards for sustainable (or ESG) investment products. A key assumption in our model is that of non-consequentialist private investors (households) who derive a "warm glow" decisional utility when purchasing an investment...

The Commission's ongoing evaluation of the HBER and the Horizontal Guidelines has identified as a key topic the consideration of sustainability benefits. With this background, the Commission has posed the following question: When and how can sustainability benefits deriving from an agreement...

We lay out a roadmap for how the legislator could create a framework of “sustainability corridors” that would allow to rely on the ancillary restraints doctrine to make antitrust law more accommodating of sustainability considerations. We show how this avoids the pitfalls of a multi-goals...