One of the most profound changes in the industrial landscape in the last decade has been the growth of business ecosystems- groups of connected firms, drawing on (digital) platforms which leverage their complementors and lock-in their customers, exploiting the “bottlenecks” that emerge in...

The food industry is a notoriously complex economic sector that has not received the attention it deserves within legal scholarship. Production and distribution of food is complex because of its polycentric character (as it operates at the intersection of different public policies) and its...

"Harnessing the tension between "equity" and "efficiency" and achieving the optimal equilibrium between these policy objectives, has long been one of the major questions bedevilling economics and, more generally, political philosophy in liberal democracies but also beyond."

Global food value chains : a conceptual guide -- Rents, power and governance in global value chains -- The financialization of land and agriculture : mechanisms, implications and responses -- Agriculture, end to end -- New forms of financing the agricultural sector in Brazil : the experience of...

The study first takes a normative perspective and examines the various goals that have been advanced by competition law literature on the objectives of EU competition law. A critical analysis of this literature shows the weaknesses of an economic welfare approach and the difficulties, as well as...

This chapter is part of a forthcoming book on EU and UK Competition Law. It provides critical analysis and materials on the following topics relating to the interaction between competition law and IP rights: the innovation process and the different models of interaction between competition law...