Global Competition Review

The Michigan attorney general has accused a Florida-based private equity group of illegally monopolising all ferry transportation between tourist hotspot Mackinac Island and the mainland.

The competition economics consulting industry has grown nearly tenfold since the turn of the century and has become less concentrated, according to a first-of-its-kind study by two economists at Econic Partners.

The European Court of Justice will next month hear arguments stemming from a Dutch tribunal’s request for clarity on the role of inter-brand competition when assessing by-object restrictions in vertical restraint cases.

The European Commission and Canada’s Competition Bureau must clarify whether a new competition cooperation agreement will expand the scope for sharing confidential information from parties in merger control and antitrust probes, experts have said.

The European Court of Justice should annul a first-instance ruling overturning a €1.49 billion fine on Google over old clauses in AdSense contracts, according to advocate general Julianne Kokott. The top court adviser said today that the General Court must reconsider its reasoning for annulling the agency’s exclusionary effects analysis. Also in The Briefing, the EU closes a pre...