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04 Apr 2019

Video Interview: Ensuring Competition and Innovation in 3D Printing

OBLB Editors

Take a look at our full video interview with Professor Michal Gal about her research on 3D printing. Professor Gal focusses on the disruption 3D printing may cause to supply chains and market...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Competition/ Antitrust
01 Feb 2019

Tackling Algorithmic-Facilitated Tacit Collusion in a Proportionate Way

Paolo Siciliani

The digitalisation of production and distribution processes means that the (‘first-copy’) costs to develop and launch a product are preponderant in comparison to the following costs to actually...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
06 Dec 2018

Horizontal Shareholding: The End of Markets and the Rise of Networks

Alessandro Romano

In many markets, large institutional investors like BlackRock and Vanguard own significant stakes in most, if not all, horizontal competitors. Legal scholars have suggested that this pattern of...

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  • Commercial Law
26 Nov 2018

Do German Judges Compete for Litigation by Offering Plaintiff-Friendly Procedures?

Stefan Bechtold | Jens Frankenreiter | Daniel Klerman

The most important function of judges is to decide cases brought to them by litigants. By contrast, they are not commonly seen as participants in a market for litigation, competing to ‘sell’ their...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
22 Nov 2018

Algorithmic Price-Setting by Platforms

Julian Nowag

A recent criminal cartel case where sellers of posters used an algorithm to coordinate their prices on the Amazon platform created buzz in the competition community. While interesting with regard to...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
08 Oct 2018

Assessing the Competition Law and Economics of ‘Free’

Benjamin Edelman | Damien Geradin

Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. Consider companies as diverse as Dropbox, Facebook, Google,...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
10 Sep 2018

ICYMI―Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership?

OBLB Editors

The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) featured a Focus Panel on ‘Common Ownership: Antitrust Meets Corporate Governance’ at their Annual Members’ Meeting in Berlin, in May 2018. The...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
24 Aug 2018

Behavioral Law and Economics

Eyal Zamir | Doron Teichman

We are delighted to share the news about the publication of our new book, Behavioral Law and Economics (OUP 2018). This book aims to serve as a gateway into the world of behavioral analysis. It...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • M&A
25 Jul 2018

Policy Failure: The Role of “Economics” in AT&T-Time Warner and American Express

Marshall Steinbaum | James Biese

The recent AT&T and Amex decisions showcase the pitfalls of considering antitrust cases solely on the basis of economic analysis and may have the effect of immunizing tech giants from serious...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
18 May 2018

Transnational Antitrust Law

Hannah Buxbaum

Like many other forms of economic regulation, the regulation of competition takes place, for the most part, at the national level. It’s no great surprise that efforts to develop international law in...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
15 Jan 2018

Big data and algorithms: Focusing the discussion

Jay Modrall

The explosion in the collection of ‘big data’ and the use of algorithms for pricing across many industries has generated intense discussion in recent years. Broadly speaking, there are two main areas...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
16 Aug 2017

Google: King or Kingmaker?

Ruth Keating

The digital economy has boasted of 'unicorns', 'change agents' and 'disruption'. But the difficult question that competition law, and the European Commission, must grapple with is whether the nature...
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05 May 2017

2016-2017 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Most Read Opinion Pieces

John Armour, Faculty of Law | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Ariel Ezrachi, Pembroke College | Cheng Lim | Bruno Meyerhof Salama | Calum Sargeant | TJ Saw | Maurice Stucke, Institute of European and Comparative Law

On 14 March 2017, the Oxford Business Law Blog ('OBLB') marked its first anniversary. One year ago, we set out to create a leading and truly international forum for the exchange of ideas and...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
03 Nov 2016

"Common Ownership”: New Competition Law Issues with Respect to Minority Shareholdings?

Dentons Europe LLP

A debate has recently arisen about whether so-called “common ownership” may negatively affect competition. “Common ownership” describes the situation where large institutional shareholders (...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
10 Jul 2016

Promarket Interview: Einer Elhauge on Horizontal Shareholding, Antitrust, Growth and Inequality

Guy Rolnik

This post was originally published on premarket.org – the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Corporate profits are at record highs, economic growth is...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
23 Mar 2016

Mum’s The Word: Antitrust Risks of Public Announcements

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

This post comes to us from Martijn Snoep and Jolling de Pree from De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Public price announcements have caught many cartel enforcers’ eye. The European Commission recently...

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