Anna Tzanaki
Anna Tzanaki is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University, Faculty of Law (Sweden), and Senior Research Fellow at UCL Centre of Law, Economics & Society (UK). She studied law at University College London (PhD), University of Chicago (LLM), University of Athens (LLB) and Humboldt University Berlin (Erasmus). She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (Oxford) and Competition Policy International (Boston).
Her research and teaching focuses on M&A, competition law and policy, corporate governance, law & economics, EU and comparative law. Under an EU Marie Curie research grant, she had been investigating the competition implications of partial ownership of rival firms in Europe. She has a forthcoming monograph on this topic with Cambridge University Press, and she is also co-editor of a new Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar Publishing). Anna has been engaged as an external academic expert by the European Commission (DG COMP) and the Hellenic Competition Commission on several occasions.
Antitrust and Competition
The Passive Mechanisms of Common Ownership
A new paper explores the conundrum that common ownership poses for antitrust enforcers and competition and corporate scholars and sheds light on...
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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
Antitrust and Competition
Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote
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Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments? Â
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...