Towards a Systematic Controlling of Antitrust Decisions?

By Oliver Budzinski & Annika Stöhr

In an imperfect world, competition authorities cannot get every case right. Often, the benefit of hindsight allows for an ex-post assessment of antitrust decisions yielding valuable insights. Therefore, a systematic integration of expost analyses may form an important part of due process in the sense of a systematic “controlling” of competition policy (improving future antitrust policy). Competition authorities have a responsibility towards society an