The Competition
Law Hub

A platform for independent research into competition law and policy

eSports and Antitrust Law

In a contribution to the edited volume Esports Law and Practice (Edward Elgar 2025), Soojin Nam, Vicky…

Conceptualising Virtual Worlds

In a recent working paper, Ayse Gizem Yasar (LSE) and Fabian Ziermann explore the concept of virtual worlds….

Competition Law in Austria 2025

Vicky Robertson just published the second edition of her monograph Competition Law in Austria. Forming part of…

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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eSports and Antitrust Law

In a contribution to the edited volume Esports Law and Practice (Edward Elgar 2025), Soojin Nam, Vicky Robertson and Fabian...
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Conceptualising Virtual Worlds

In a recent working paper, Ayse Gizem Yasar (LSE) and Fabian Ziermann explore the concept of virtual worlds. They argue that...
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Competition Law in Austria 2025

Vicky Robertson just published the second edition of her monograph Competition Law in Austria. Forming part of Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia...

Talks

GCLC lunch talk

The Market Definition Notice Goes Digital

At the 131st GCLC lunch talk on 16 March 2023, Thomas Büttner (Chief Economist’s Team, DG COMP), Vanessa Turner (BEUC)...
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DataComp – first results

On 17 March 2023, Franziska Guggi presented the first results of the DataComp project at the annual Retz seminar of...
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App Stores under the DMA

At the European Commission’s stakeholder workshop on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act’s app store-related provisions, Vicky Robertson discussed...

News & Media

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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...
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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,...