Friso Bostoen, CoRe Blog Editor

Assistant Professor of Competition Law and Digital Regulation, Tilburg University

Friso Bostoen is an assistant professor of competition law and digital regulation at Tilburg University. Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He holds degrees from KU Leuven (PhD, LLM) and Harvard University (LLM). Friso’s research focuses on antitrust enforcement in digital markets. His work has resulted in numerous international publications, presentations, and awards (including the AdC Competition Policy Award 2019 and the Concurrences PhD Award 2022). In addition, Friso edits the CoRe Blog and hosts the Monopoly Attack podcast.

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CoRe Blog posts published by Friso:

• Epic v Apple (3): two perspectives on app stores’ 30% commission fee on 03 November 2020
• Epic v Apple (1): introducing antitrust’s latest Big Tech battle royale on 04 September 2020
• Venture capital and antitrust: on exit strategies, killer acquisitions, and innovation harms on 23 April 2020
• Corona and EU economic law: Antitrust (Articles 101 and 102 TFEU) with Liesbet Van Acker on 16 March 2020
• The antitrust books you should’ve read in 2019 [part 2] on 23 January 2020
• The antitrust books you should’ve read in 2019 [part 1] on 10 January 2020
• Abuse of relative dominance in the platform economy: a French court finds Amazon’s contracts with third-party sellers significantly imbalanced on 12 November 2019
• ‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’: when does copying your competitor’s product become anticompetitive? on 26 September 2019
• Amazon cases on the move: Bundeskartellamt closes proceedings while European Commission opens formal investigation on 18 July 2019
• U.S. antitrust agencies divide jurisdiction over Big Tech and single out Google for investigation on 14 June 2019
• Spotify lodges antitrust complaint against Apple: it’s ‘time to play fair’ in the music streaming industry on 24 April 2019
• When competition law met data protection: the Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook decision on 18 February 2019
• It’s raining Amazon probes: the Bundeskartellamt joins the Commission in investigating the tech giant’s marketplace practices on 09 January 2019
• Challenges to Antitrust in a Changing Economy [conference report] on 13 November 2018
• The Commission’s Amazon probe: overcoming the antitrust paradox on 28 September 2018
• The United States considers boarding the tech regulation train on 28 August 2018
• The Commission’s Android decision: Google cements its dominance in search… to the benefit of consumers? on 27 July 2018
• The AT&T-Time Warner decision and its implications for vertical merger enforcement in the U.S. on 19 June 2018
• The Commission proposes a Regulation on platform-to-business trading practices on 25 May 2018
• Innovation in EU merger control on 23 April 2018
• The Uber-Grab merger and the potentially anti-competitive consequences of the battle for ride-hailing dominance on 30 March 2018
• Can consumers pay too much when they pay nothing? The Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook case on 15 March 2018