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

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Big Tech, Democracy & the Economy

A recent episode of Ö1 Journal-Panorama, a news show on Austrian national radio, took a deep dive into how Big...
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Big Tech in Europe

In an interview with Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten, Vicky Robertson discussed the market power of Big Tech companies in Europe,...
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Research Sabbatical

From March 2025 to February 2026, Vicky Robertson will be on research leave as a guest researcher at the Law...

Projects

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SYRI-Alert

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

Is there any role left for market definition in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)? On 19 May 2022, Vicky Robertson...
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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...

Publications

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Detecting RPM with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Computational antitrust has found more and more applications in recent years, including through the use of machine learning. However, the...
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Data-driven market definition for AI and video games

In digital markets, the failure to adapt market definition tools risks undermining effective competition enforcement. In this open access contribution...
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Strategic Foresight & Competition Law

Klaudia Majcher and Vicky Robertson’s paper on ‘Strategic Foresight and EU Competition Law’ was just published in World Competition. They...

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...