Recent Publications
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Personalisierte Preise – Zivilrecht, Markt, Wettbewerb, in: Gebauer/Huber (Hrsg.), Künstliche Intelligenz - Zurechnung, Vertrag, Verantwortung – Ergebnisse der 38. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung in Tübingen - Fachgruppe Zivilrecht, 2024, S. 67-99.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Algorithms and Antitrust: A Framework with Special Emphasis on Coordinated Pricing, 7. Mai 2024, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4816287.
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Stefan Thomas, Personalisierte Preise – Zivilrecht, Markt, Wettbewerb/Personalized Prices - Private Law, Market, Competition, 7. Mai 2024, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4818190.
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Societal Aims in Antitrust Law, in: Cleargolaw News Memorial Issue for Dirk Schroeder, May 2024.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Abuse of Dominance and Sustainability, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 48–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpad041.
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§§ 44 - 47 (Monopolkommission), in: Immenga/Mestmäcker (Begr.), Schweitzer/Zimmer/Körber (Hrsg.), Wettbewerbsrecht, Band 2: GWB Kommentar zum Deutschen Kartellrecht, 7. Aufl., München 2024, Verlag C.H. Beck (S. 1677-1690).
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Why European Antitrust Law Should not Treat Labor Markets Differently, CPI Antitrust chronicle December 2023: https://www.pymnts.com/cpi_posts/why-european-antitrust-law-should-not-treat-labor-markets-differently/.
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Krisztian Gado/Raphael Schoenle/Stefan Thomas, 5 Dec 2023, CEPR discussion paper DP18663: Amazon and Online Competitor Prices: The Role of Shipping Costs in a Hybrid Platform Environment: https://cepr.org/publications/dp18663 and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652962.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Legal Design in Sustainable Antitrust, Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2023, nhad016, https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhad016.
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Stefan Thomas, Structure and Enforcement of the SIEC Test – Analyzing the CK Telecoms Judgment of the Court of Justice, ZWeR 2023, 446-472: https://www.zwer-online.de/zwer-2023-446-structure-and-enforcement-of-the-siec-test-analyzing-the-ck-telecoms-judgment-of-the-court-of-justice/.
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Stefan Thomas, Struktur und Anwendung des SIEC-Tatbestands: eine Analyse der CK Telecoms Entscheidung des EuGH, ZWeR 2023, 281–308: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.15375/zwer-2023-0306/html.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Bedrohte Freiheit des Wettbewerbs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 7. Juli 2023 Nr. 155 S. 18.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Competition Policy and the Environment, in: The Annual Review of Resource Economics 2023, 15:12.1–12.13, resource.annualreviews.org, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-092622-010400, open access: http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/EXM38YCMYDBDJDNECPN3/full/10.1146/annurev-resource-092622-010400.
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Judicial Review of Merger Decisions in Germany: Reconciling Structural Concepts with Effects Analysis, in: Douglas H. Ginsburg, Tim Eicke KC (eds.), Judicial Review of Competition Cases, Concurrences 2023, 175-187, ISBN: 978-1-954750-18-0, https://www.concurrences.com/en/all-books/judicial-review-of-competition-cases.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Sustainability Agreements in the European Commission’s Draft Horizontal Guidelines, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2022, 571-577.
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Stefan Thomas, Thesenpapier, Rechtliche und wettbewerbspolitische Bewertung des § 32f RefE 11. GWB-Novelle, 11. November 2022, at https://profthomas.eu/files/S_Thomas_Thesenpapier_dt_32f_RefE_11_GWB-N.pdf.
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Rechtliche und wettbewerbspolitische Bewertung des § 32f RefE 11. GWB-Novelle, Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (Journal of Competition Law) ZWeR 2022, 333-355, available (open access) at https://www.zwer-online.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZWeR/ZWeR_2022_04_Aufsatz_Stefan_Thomas.pdf.
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Autonomization and Antitrust: On the Construal of the Cartel Prohibition in the Light of Algorithmic Collusion, in: Voeneky/Kellmeyer/Mueller/Burgard, Cambridge University Press 2022, p. 347 - 358, available (open access) at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-responsible-artificial-intelligence/autonomization-and-antitrust/6B026CF3CF0EC7092493D8E32AF3F782.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, The Scope and Limitations of Incorporating Externalities in Competition Analysis within a Consumer Welfare Approach, World Competition 2022, 351-386 (https://kluwerlawonline.com/Journals/World+Competition/407).
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Stefan Thomas, Normative Goals in Merger Control – Why Merger Control Should Not Attempt to Achieve “Better” Outcomes than Competition, in: Ioannis Kokkoris/Claudia Lemus (Hrsg.): Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Competition Enforcement, Edward Elgar 2022, 193-216.
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Roman Inderst, Felix Rhiel & Stefan Thomas, Sustainability Agreements and Social Norms, 2022 Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht/Journal of Competition Law 225-242 (preprint at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887314)
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Sustainability Agreements in the European Commission’s Draft Horizontal Guidelines, 2022 Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=4069374.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Integrating Benefits from Sustainability into the Competitive Assessment - How Can We Measure Them?, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2021, S. 705-709, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeclap/lpab077.
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Jochen von Bernstorff/Olaf Kramer/Johannes Saurer/Stefan Thomas, Courts as Rhetorical Actors - A Rhetorical Analysis of Judicial Conflict Avoidance, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, (81) 2021, 1001-1032, open access https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0044-2348-2021-4-I/titelei-inhaltsverzeichnis-jahrgang-81-2021-heft-4?page=1.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Prospective Welfare Analysis - Extending Willingness-To-Pay Assessment to Embrace Sustainability, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, nhab021, https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhab021 Published: 22 September 2021.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Reflective Willingness to Pay: Preferences for Sustainable Consumption in a Consumer Welfare Analysis, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, nhab016, https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhab016 Published: 20 August 2021.
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Stefan Thomas, Horizontal Restraints on Platforms - How Digital Ecosystems Nudge into Rethinking the Construal of the Cartel Prohibition, WORLD COMPETITION Law and Economics Review, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 2021, S. 53-80.
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Tilman Kuhn & Stefan Thomas, The More Economic Judicature: How the General Court has Recalibrated the Merger Gauge, Competition Policy International, June 7, 2020 https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/the-more-economic-judicature-how-the-general-court-has-recalibrated-the-merger-gauge/ and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3638075.
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Stefan Thomas, Harmful Signals: Cartel Prohibition and Oligopoly Theory in the Age of Machine Learning, 15 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2019, 159-203.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Common Ownership and Mergers Between Portfolio Companies, World Competition 2019, 551-576.
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Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Price Pressure Indices, Innovation, and Mergers Between Commonly Owned Firms, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 10, Issue 9, November 2019, S. 572–579.
Recent Papers and Blog Posts
Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Sustainability and Competition: How Competition Law Enforcement Needs to Be Overhauled to Achieve Sustainability Goals, 20 March, 2022, https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/sustainability-and-competition-how-competition-law-enforcement-needs-to-be-overhauled-to-achieve-sustainability-goals1/
Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Legal Design in Sustainable Antitrust, 15 March 2022, http://ssrn.com/abstract=4058367
Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, Measuring Consumer Sustainability Benefits https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3916070
Roman Inderst & Stefan Thomas, The Scope and Limitations of Incorporating Externalities in Competition Analysis within a Consumer Welfare Approach https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3896243
Roman Inderst, Felix Rhiel & Stefan Thomas, Sustainability Agreements and Social Norms https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887314
Stefan Thomas, Normative Goals in Merger Control (11 February 2020), Oxford Business Law Blog https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2020/02/normative-goals-merger-control