Oxford Business Law Blog

In an earnings conference call with investors in 2008, Edward J Shoen, chief executive officer and chairman of U-Haul International, Inc., lamented that the Avis Budget Group, Inc., its main...

Italy is so far the only EU Member State to have introduced, in 2011, a specific anti-interlocking provision targeting personal ties among competing banking, insurance, and financial firms and groups...

The Big Three index funds—Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street—play an increasingly important role in proxy voting. Their influence derives from the fact that under US law, as well as that of many...

Just over ten years after the last amendment to the German Patent Act, the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection submitted a discussion draft at the beginning of this year that...

Recent studies have linked the concentration of common shareholding in competing corporations (known as horizontal shareholdings) among the same group of minority shareholders with competition...

Globally, digitalization is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Rapid internet revolution has made multi-sided platforms (MSPs) ubiquitous in our modern economy. In India, ride sharing within urban...

The impact of technology on finance (FinTech) is one of the hottest topics in business, law, and regulation, with academics and practitioners considering many issues, including cryptocurrencies, robo...

In my latest paper ‘Normative Goals in Merger Control’, I deal with the recent calls for extending the scope of merger appraisal to normative goals outside the realm of the consumer welfare paradigm...

Since computers entered into the mainstream in the 1960s, the efficiency with which data could be processed has raised regulatory questions. This is well understood with respect to privacy. Data that...

The ‘invisible hand’ has become an icon for an economic philosophy which assumes that a laissez-faire governmental policy will result in optimal social and financial outcomes as market forces will...

Artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on finance. In the span of a few decades, it has made finance faster, more accessible, more profitable, and more efficient in many ways. Despite all...

It is settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that parent companies can be fined for competition law infringements committed by their subsidiaries and that successor...

The current debate on the competitive risks of common ownership has focused on whether index investments soften competition among portfolio companies. However, even if one concedes, in arguendo, that...

A small number of large fund groups have become an increasingly influential force by controlling a significant share of publicly-traded companies, a phenomenon often termed ‘common ownership’. They...

In my paper ‘Cartel Prohibition and Oligopoly Theory in the Age of Machine Learning’ I deal with the application of the cartel prohibition in the light of alleged legal gaps resulting from the surge...

Is common ownership the Doomsday Machine for the operation of free markets, competition and capitalism as we know it? An observer of cutting-edge law and economics literature may indeed tend to...

Digital platforms play a central role as facilitators of online interactions and transactions between users. In particular, ‘two-sided platforms’ – which operate, for instance, e-commerce...