Research

Discover our diverse research and publications! The research conducted at The Competition Law Hub is manifold, carried out in various projects, in collaboration with partners from across the globe. Our research regularly leads to publications such as working papers, articles in traditional journals, monographs, blog posts, podcasts, and many more. We engage with the larger competition law community. Come and apply for a research fellowship with us!

News & Media

Rewe

Fine for Gun-Jumping

Following the Austrian Supreme Court’s ruling to impose a fine  of € 70 million on supermarket chain Rewe for gun-jumping,...
Rewe

Highest Ever Antitrust Fine in Austria

The Austrian Supreme Court recently imposed the highest ever antitrust fine in Austrian proceedings: supermarket giant Rewe was fined €...
Antitrust

Antitrust Writing Awards 2025

The nominations are out – and Fabian Ziermann’s article on ‘Dark patterns: Can criminal law remedy the shortcomings of antitrust...

Projects

Syri

SYRI-Alert

The SYRI-Alert project sets out to develop an early warning system for supply chain disruptions to increase the resilience of...
ChartingGreenerFutureforEUCompLaw

Charting a Greener Future for EU Competition Law

The project sets out to harness the transformative power of environmental sustainability by charting new ways for a greener future...
DataComp

DataComp

Antitrust violations in their various forms result in considerable costs and disadvantages for competitors, customers and the public at large. Yet...

Talks

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Digital Ecosystems

On 22 April 2022, Vicky Robertson discussed antitrust market definition for digital ecosystems at the Workshop of the Competition Law...
Institutsveranstaltung

Sustainability in Austrian Competition Law

On 5 April 2022, Vicky Robertson discussed the new Austrian sustainability exemption in the context of the European Comission's Draft...
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Podcast on Green Antitrust

In the latest instalment of the Wolf Theiss Soundshot Podcast, Simon Holmes and Vicky Robertson discussed the latest news on...

Publications

RPM

Detecting RPM with Unsupervised Machine Learning

The data-driven investigation of potential antitrust violations has found more and more applications in recent years, including through the use...
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Insights into the Vienna Competition Law Days 2024

In the current issue of the Austrian Competition Journal (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht), David Führer takes a look back at the Vienna...
Algorithm

Recommendation Algorithms as Antitrust Remedy

In a new working paper, Jana Lasser (IDea_lab, University of Graz) and Vicky Robertson discuss how alternative recommendation algorithms could...

Fellowships

Visiting Research Fellows at The Hub

As the new semester starts, The Competition Law Hub bids farewell to our Visiting Research Fellow Juan Ignacio Ruiz Peris...

Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences

On 8 November 2023, Fabian Ziermann was awarded a DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his PhD...

Visiting Research at the European University Institute (EUI)

On 8 May, Klaudia Majcher joined the Center for a Digital Society (CDS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in...