The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as what kind of assessment concepts competition...

In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of...

In January 2016, the Commission cleared the acquisition of the global #2 beverage can manufacturer Rexam by the global #1 Ball, subject to the divestiture of nearly the whole overlap in Europe. A key feature of the phase 2 investigation is the adoption of customer-centric catch-ment areas as the...