Competition Law and Financialisation

Led by Ioannis Lianos, this research initiative explores the implications of financialisation for competition law and policy. The research draws on a range of heterodox economic scholarship, primarily from the institutional, post-Keynesian and Marxist traditions, to analyse competitive behaviour in the era of financial capitalism.

This research agenda aims to provide broad insights into nature of economic competition following financialisation, as well as analysis of how finance affects the competitive landscape of specific value chains, including in the food and digital sectors.

Key events:

• Workshop on Competition Law and Financialisation, hosted at UCL Faculty of Laws, 18 May 2022

• Workshop on Competition Law and Policy at times of Financialisation in the Food Sector, hosted at Sciences Po Paris Law School, 25 June 2019, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2019/jun/competition-law-and-policy-times-financialisation-food-sector

Key publications:

• Ioannis Lianos and Andrew McLean, ‘Competition Law, Big Tech and Financialisation: The Dark Side of the Moon’ in Marco Claudio Corradi and Julian Nowag (eds), The Interaction Between Corporate and Competition Law (CUP, forthcoming), available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cles/sites/cles/files/cles_5-2021_1rev.pdf

• Ioannis Lianos, Alina Velias, Dmitry Katalevsky and George Ovchinnikov, ‘Financialisation of the Food Value Chain, Common Ownership and Competition Law’ (2020) 16(1) European Competition Journal 149, available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cles/sites/cles/files/cles-4-2019_final.pdf