Professor Daniel Zimmer is the former Chairman of the German Monopolies Commission and a Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics at Bonn University. His publications in the field of competition law and economics include a book “Law and Economics in European Merger Control” (jointly with Ulrich Schwalbe, Oxford University Press 2009).
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The Digital Market Act (DMA) was born out of a combination of three elements: the desire to regulate certain very large online platforms that have acquired substantial control over access to digital markets; the perceived inadequacies and slowness of competition law in this regard; and the (...)
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In this On-Topic issue we have invited prominent competition lawyers and economists – from academic, judicial, enforcement and practice sides of the profession – to discuss a book by two leading antitrust thinkers. The book ’Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from (...)
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Following the substantive harmonisation in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the Commission has started more recently to focus on procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This ‘On Topic’ issue looks at the current state of (...)
