Dirk Auer is a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on the law and economics of antitrust, with an emphasis on innovation policy, digital markets and European competition law. Dirk is also an adjunct professor at UCLouvain, where he teaches an introduction to American law course, and at ULiege, where he teaches a courses concerning the economics of competition law.
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The Amazon investigation and Europe’s "Big Tech" Crusade* The dust has barely settled on the European Commission’s record-breaking €4.3 Billion Google Android fine, but already the European Commission is gearing up for its next high-profile case. Last month, Margrethe Vestager dropped a (...)
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What Mark Zuckerberg’s Emails Don’t Tell Us about the Instagram Acquisition* Recently-published emails from 2012 between Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s then-Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman, in which Zuckerberg lays out his rationale for buying Instagram, have prompted many to speculate (...)
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Prosecuting loyalty rebates—and other price-related antitrust behavior—entails significant pitfalls for antitrust policymakers. Low prices are one of the key benefits antitrust law seeks to promote. And yet, when it comes to low prices, anticompetitive strategy is almost indistinguishable from (...)
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