Law-abiding algorithms: How Big Data and AI challenges the competitive system
In this thesis, the usage of pricing algorithms is analyzed to see how they facilitate new ways for companies to collude. To answer the question of how current competition legislation in the EU can be applied to algorithmic collusion, I studied the definition of the three forms of collusion in art. 101(1) TFEU through case law, Commission decisions, and literature on the subject. Subsequently, the