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

February 7, 2025
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

February 6, 2025
The Austrian Supreme Court recently imposed the highest ever antitrust fine in Austrian proceedings: supermarket giant Rewe was fined €...
Antitrust

Antitrust Writing Awards 2025

January 16, 2025
The nominations are out – and Fabian Ziermann’s article on ‘Dark patterns: Can criminal law remedy the shortcomings of antitrust...
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Projects

Syri

SYRI-Alert

January 29, 2025
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

March 1, 2022
The project sets out to harness the transformative power of environmental sustainability by charting new ways for a greener future...
DataComp

DataComp

February 1, 2022
Antitrust violations in their various forms result in considerable costs and disadvantages for competitors, customers and the public at large. Yet...
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Talks

Merger Control

The Future of Digital Merger Control

April 24, 2024
On 18 April 2024, the European Commission hosted a celebratory conference on the 20th anniversary of the EU Merger Regulation....
Antitruat, Transition

Antitrust, Strategic Foresight and the Twin Transition

April 16, 2024
On 5 April 2024, Vicky Robertson participated in the 40th CLaSF workshop, held at the University of Málaga. She presented...
Fabian

European Super League and Digital Mergers    

March 19, 2024
On 14 and 15 March 2024, the Institute for Business Law of WU Vienna hosted its annual seminar, this year...
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Publications

RPM

Detecting RPM with Unsupervised Machine Learning

February 12, 2025
The data-driven investigation of potential antitrust violations has found more and more applications in recent years, including through the use...
ÖZK (002)

Insights into the Vienna Competition Law Days 2024

February 4, 2025
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

January 27, 2025
In a new working paper, Jana Lasser (IDea_lab, University of Graz) and Vicky Robertson discuss how alternative recommendation algorithms could...
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Fellowships

Visiting Research Fellows at The Hub

October 1, 2024
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

November 9, 2023
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)

May 22, 2023
On 8 May, Klaudia Majcher joined the Center for a Digital Society (CDS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in...
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