The Competition
Law Hub

A platform for independent research into competition law and policy

Detecting RPM with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Computational antitrust has found more and more applications in recent years, including through the use of machine…

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…

Strategic Foresight & Competition Law

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

Events

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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...
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Workshop on Market Definition

On 8 February 2024, the European Commission published its new Market Definition Notice 2024. This Notice consolidates knowledge and Commission practice...
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Vienna Competition Law Days 2024

On 12 and 13 September 2024, The Competition Law Hub once again hosted the Vienna Competition Law Days at the...

Publications

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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...
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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...
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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...

Talks

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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’...
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Digital Merger Remedies – EUI Roundtable

On 16 April 2025, Vicky Robertson contributed to a Roundtable on digital merger remedies, hosted by the European University Institute’s...

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...