Stefan Thomas

Stefan Thomas

Chair in Private Law, Commercial Law, Competition and Insurance Law. Director of the Tübingen Research Institute on the Determinants of Economic Activity (TRIDEA). Head of the AI MEETS LAW platform.

Recent publications

  • Auslegung des Kartellverbots bei Kollusion durch Algorithmen, in: Daniel Zimmer (Hrsg.), Regulierung für Algorithmen und Künstliche Intelligenz, 2021, S. 293-310 https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/regulierung-fuer-algorithmen-und-kuenstliche-intelligenz-id-100750/

  • Zum Umgang mit Regressionsanalysen in Kartellschadensersatzfällen, ZWeR 2021, 432 (together with Roman Inderst).

  • Der Verbraucher und die Nachhaltigkeit im Kartellrecht, in: Joost/Oetker/Paschke (Hrsg.), Festschrift für Franz Jürgen Säcker zum 80. Geburtstag, 2021, S. 331-342.

  • 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 (together with Roman Inderst).

  • 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 (together Roman Inderst).

  • 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 (together Roman Inderst).

  • 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.

  • The More Economic Judicature: How the General Court has Recalibrated the Merger Gauge (together with Tilman Kuhn), 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

  • Harmful Signals: Cartel Prohibition and Oligopoly Theory in the Age of Machine Learning, 15 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2019, 159-203.

  • Common Ownership and Mergers Between Portfolio Companies, World Competition 2019, 551-576 (together with Roman Inderst).

  • 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, (together with Roman Inderst).

  • Die digitale Ökonomie zwischen vertikaler und horizontaler Wettbewerbsbeschränkung, ZHR 184 (2020), 222 - 248.