by Aline Blankertz | 10.12.2025 | Big Tech
Big tech companies are surprisingly flexible in how they exercise power over the development and control of technology. An empirical study by Aline Blankertz, Brianna Rock and Nicholas Shaxson shows that Google has an investment strategy that is shaping the global...
by Aline Blankertz | 17.11.2025 | Basics, Publications
Hintergrundpapier. Strukturelle Maßnahmen erklärt: Wie man Unternehmen sinnvoll entflechtet (PDF, German) Background paper. Structural measures explained: How to break up firms well (PDF, English) Competition authorities have been hesitant to use structural remedies...
by Aline Blankertz | 27.10.2025 | Basics
The European control of abuse of dominance provides for the prohibition of exploitative abuse by companies. Exploitative abuse occurs, for example, when companies set excessive prices or make excessive profits. However, the EU competition authority DG Competition has...
by Aline Blankertz | 24.09.2025 | Basics
Mergers are a key element of strategies to increase market power and/or leverage it into adjacent markets. The European Commission is reviewing its Merger Guidelines which provide guidance on the Commission’s practice when assessing mergers within the legal framework...
by Aline Blankertz | 02.06.2025 | Big Tech, News
On May 29, the Minister of State for Culture, Wolfram Weimer, proposed a 10% advertising levy based on the Austrian model. We welcome this proposal. After all, digital companies continue to pay significantly lower taxes than other companies (9.5% instead of 23.3%...
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