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

big tech

Big Tech in Europe

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

Research Sabbatical

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

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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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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ASCOLA 2025: Algorithmic Remedies

At this year’s 20th ASCOLA conference, which took place at Loyola University Chicago from 26 to 28 June 2025, Vicky...
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Seminar on New Technologies and the Law

On 19 June 2025, a bilateral seminar of the Université de Montréal (UdeM) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’...

Publications

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...
Verfassung

Tech Plutocracy and Competition Law

Against the background of Big Tech’s growing influence with the US President, the Verfassungsblog is hosting a symposium brought together...
Judicial

Judicial Review in Competition Law

In the recent Mapping Judicial Review project, academics from the EU and UK assessed how national competition law decisions are...

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...