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    I blog somewhat regularly. But not here. Instead, I like to write in various places across the internet. This page collates various posts into one place.


    The European Commission Can and Must Act on Excessive Pricing, with Aline Blankertz, Justine Haekens and Nicholas Shaxson. ProMarket, 2025.

    The European Commission has struggled to tackle excessive prices in Europe, despite evidence of how they arise in relation to market power. We argue that adopting accounting and financial analysis as part of its toolkit can enable the Commission to understand and act when firms are exploiting their market power.

    A Gendered Lens on Self Confidence in the Workplace. IIASA Women in Science Club Magazine (Issue: Ourselves in Science, online version forthcoming), 2025.

    Coordination Across the Channel II, with Marina Iskander. Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 2025.

    On May 20th 2025, the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) agreed on a competition cooperation agreement, an important milestone in the evolving relationship between the EU and the UK in competition enforcement, which became institutionally more complex as a result of Brexit. This post introduces the content of the Agreement, compares it to the pre-Brexit scenario as well as to other similar agreements that the Parties have signed, and provides an analysis.

    Did Meta Tie its AI Assistant to WhatsApp?, with Marina Iskander. Kluwer Competition Law Blog & Inclusive Competition Forum Blog, 2025.

    Meta recently integrated its AI assistant, Meta AI, into WhatsApp, Instragram and Facebook. This post, which grew into this paper, analyses whether Meta could have abused its dominant position under competition law by doing so.

    Google AdTech: Break Up or Break Out?. EU Law Enforcement Blog, 2025.

    Why does Google hold a dominant position in AdTech? This blog post, summarising my paper in Utrecht Law Review, examines why and proposes a novel remedy which would entail Google divesting its AdTech stack and permitting consumers to choose which advertising network monetises their useage of its online platforms.

    Democracy or Domination, with Spencer Cohen. Verfassungsblog, 2025.

    Democracy in Europe is under threat. Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and revitalise democracy in Europe. Yet the protection of democracy is habitually said to fall outside the proper scope of competition enforcement. Spencer Cohen and I, drawing from a paper that we published in JCLE, to show how competition law can, through a recalibration of its error cost framework, be used to safeguard against economic domination in markets.

    Coordination Across the Channel I, with Marina Iskander. Kluwer Competition Law Blog, 2024.

    The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union put European competition policy in a somewhat awkward state. The schism left EU and UK competition law as geographical neighbours and almost identical twins in both legal form and substance, yet worlds apart in terms of their ability to coordinate. This blog post considers the impact of a potential competition agreement between the UK and the EU with regards to helping remedy this somewhat unfortunate sitaution.

    Big Tech is Harming Britain. Comment Central, 2024.