Dr. Annika Stöhr

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Stöhr, A. (2025), Section 19a GWB as a measure of counter-power against "Undertakings with Paramount Significance for Competition across Markets", forthcoming in: R. A. Achleitner; E. Fischer; L. Hornkohl & B. Zelger (Eds.), Proceedings of the Young Competition Law Scholars Conference, Nomos/Hart.
• Stöhr, A. & Budzinski, O. (2025), The dynamics of market boundaries and the role of systemic market power, in: Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnaf008.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2025), Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and Article 102 TFEU: Towards a concept of systemic market power?, in: Concurrences On-Topic "What effects-based Approach should shape future Article 102 guidelines?", pp. 13-20.
• Budzinski, O.; Stöhr A. & Schmid, J. (2024), Die Buchpreisbindung: Evergreen oder Auslaufmodell?, in: List Forum for Economic and Financial Policy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41025-024-00269-2
• Stöhr, A. (2024), Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers: A Retrospective on Retrospectives, in: Journal of Competition Law & Economics, nhae006, https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhae006.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2024), Dynamic Competition, Exclusionary and Exploitative Abuses, and Article 102 TFEU: Towards a Concept of Systemic Market Power?, forthcoming in: Concurrences.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2023), Energieversorgungssicherheit als Gemeinwohl: Auswirkungen des Instrumentes Ministererlaubnis - Teil 2, in: Economy and Competition, Vol. 73(9), pp. 463-467.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2023), Energieversorgungssicherheit als Gemeinwohl: Auswirkungen des Instrumentes Ministererlaubnis - Teil 1, in: Economy and Competition, Vol. 73(7-8), pp. 389-395.
• Stöhr, A. (2022), Economic Evaluation and Reform Implications of German Competition Policy, Dissertation, Ilmenau.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2021), Public Interest Considerations in European Merger Control Regimes, in: D. Bosco & M. S. Gal (Eds.), Challenges to the Assumptions at the Basis of Competition Law, Cheltenham: Elgar, pp. 184-205.
• Budzinski, O.; Gaenssle, S. & Stöhr, A. (2020), Outstanding relevance across markets: A new concept of market power?, in: Concurrences N° 3-2020, pp. 38-43.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2020) Ministerial approval for cartel cases: Cooperation in the public interest?, in: Journal of Competition Law, Issue 4/2020, pp. 437-457.
• Budzinski, O.; Gaenssle, S. & Stöhr, A. (2020), The draft of the 10th GWB amendment: Interventionism or laissez-faire?, in List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, Vol. 46(2), pp. 157-184.
• Stöhr, A.; Noskova, V.; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, P.; Gaenssle, S. & Budzinski, O. (2020), Happily Ever After?: Vertical and Horizontal Mergers in the US Media Industry, in: World Competition, Vol. 43(1), pp. 135-162.
• Stöhr, A.; Budzinski, O. & Jasper, J. (2020), Die Neue E.ON auf dem deutschen Strommarkt - Wettbewerbliche Auswirkungen der innogy-Übernahme, in: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, Vol. 45(3), pp. 295-317.
• Stöhr, A. & Budzinski, O. (2019), Public welfare through market power? An ex-post analysis of the ministerial authorization cases, in: Economy and Competition 2019, No. 10, pp. 508-515.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2019), Ministerial approval for the Miba/Zollern merger: European champions instead of competition? in: Wirtschaftsdienst, Vol. 99(7), pp. 505-510.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2019), Ministerial approval as an element of the German competition regime: a theoretical and empirical analysis, in: ORDO, Vol. 69, pp. 216-258.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2019), Competition Policy in Europe and Germany - Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization, in: European Competition Journal Vol. 15(1), pp. 15-54.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2018), Towards a Systematic Controlling of Antitrust Decisions, in: CPI Antitrust Chronicle, November 2018, pp. 45-49.

• Mendelsohn, J. & Stöhr, A. (2025), Überragende marktübergreifende Bedeutung von Apple für den Wettbewerb - Apple: Anmerkung zu BGH, Beschluss KVB 61/23, forthcoming in: Zeitschrift für das Recht der Digitalisierung, Datenwirtschaft und IT.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2025), Perfect Competition, Market Power, and Contestability, forthcoming in: J. van de Gronden; C. S. Rusu; M. Veenbrink; M. Maggiolino & S. O. Pais (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Competition Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Stöhr, A. (2025), Competition and Sustainability: Review of a book by Justus Haucap, Rupprecht Podszun, Tristan Rohner and Anja Rösner, in: ORDO, https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/ordo-2025-2002/html.
• Stöhr, A. (2025), Die Bertelsmann-Saga: 'Nationale Medien Champions' zur Stärkung des Wettbewerbs auf Medienmärkten?, in: J. Haucap; A. Polk & A. Stöhr (Eds.), Wettbewerb und Ordnungspolitik im globalen Kontext, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 143-160.
• Haucap, J.; Polk, A. & Stöhr, A. (Eds., 2025), Competition and Regulatory Policy in a Global Context, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Budzinski, O.; Stöhr, A. & Schmid, J. (2025), Regulierung des ökonomischen Wettbewerbs auf Medienmärkten, in: H. Gundlach (Eds.), Medienregulierung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz: Ziele, Konzepte, Maßnahmen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 595-615.
• Stöhr, A. & Mendelsohn, J. (2025), Durchsetzung des § 19a GWB: Erste Erfahrungen und Verhältnis zum Digital Markets Act, in: Becker, B. C. (Eds.), Wettbewerb auf digitalen Märkten, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 265-300.
• Gaenssle, S.; Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2025), Algorithmic search and recommendation systems in digital markets and the implementation of requirements of the DMA and DSA, in: Becker, B. C. (Eds.), Competition in Digital Markets, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 301-326.
• Budzinski, O.; Heine, K. & Stöhr, A. (2024), Einleitung: eine Festschrift für Wolfgang Kerber, in: O. Budzinski & K. Heine (Eds.), Wettbewerb, Recht und Wirtschaftspolitik - Festschrift für Wolfgang Kerber, Reihe "Wettbewerb und Regulierung von Märkten und Unternehmen" Vol. 62, pp. 9-20.
• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2023), Distortions of competition from third countries: How can fair global competition be strengthened?, in A. Kirk, P. Offergeld & T. Rohner (Eds.), Kartellrecht in der Zeitenwende - Auf dem Weg zur 11. und 12. GWB-Novelle, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 229-244.
• Budzinski, O.; Haucap, J.; Stöhr, A. & Wentzel, D. (Eds., 2021), Zur Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien - Schnittstellen und Hintergründe, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft Vol. 108, Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Budzinski, O.; Gaenssle, S. & Stöhr, A. (2020), Notes on the impact of media coverage on political opinions and voting behavior: Competition governance and the digital age, in M. Leschke & N. Otter (Eds.), Growth and development: governance problems and solutions, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft Vol. 106, Berlin: DeGruyter, pp. 206-215.
• Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, P. & Stöhr, A. (2019), Politik und Wirtschaft - Ein integratives Kompendium, review of the volume of the same name, in: ORDO, Vol. 69, pp. 481-486.

• Budzinski, O. & Stöhr, A. (2023), Wettbewerb und Nachhaltigkeit in Deutschland und der EU: Ökonomische Einschätzung der Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Vol. 28, No. 179.
• Budzinski, O.; Gaenssle, S. & Stöhr, A. (2020), The Draft for the 10th Amendment of German Competition Law: Towards a new Concept of "Outstanding Relevance across Markets"?, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Vol. 26, No. 142.

2025

• 22nd Annual German Law and Economics Association Conference (Bonn, July)
• 20th Annual Academic Society for Competition Law Conference (Chicago/USA, June)
• Annual Conference of the European Media Management Association (Rome, June)
• E.CA Expert Forum on Competition (Berlin, May)
• W@CompetitionDE Talk: (Re-)balancing power with industrial policy and competition law tools (Berlin, April)
• NIM Distinguished Speaker Series (Nuremberg, March)
• 56th Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February)
• ECONtribute LawEcon Workshop (Bonn, January)

2024

• DICE Competition Policy Conference 2024 (Düsseldorf, December)
• ARTICLE 19 Symposium DMA enforcement: Trends and gaps in the first year of application (Brussels/Belgium, November)
• JAE Workshop on Market Definition (Vienna/Austria, November)
• 2nd Annual Conference of the Dynamic Competition Initiative (Florence/Italy, October)
• 2nd Young Competition Law Conference (Vienna/Austria, September)
• 19th ASCOLA Conference (Würzburg, July)
• 60th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Marburg, May)
• Modern Bigness Conference: Power in a Digitalized World - Evolving Perspectives on Competition Law, Regulation and Beyond (Utrecht/Netherlands, April)
• Annual Conference 2024 of the Economic Policy Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Cologne, March)
• Meeting of the Competition Working Group of the Economic Policy Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Cologne, March)
• 55th Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February) - Organizer

2023

• Panel discussion "Antitrust law of the future" (Berlin, November)
• Power, media pluralism, and democracy: Regulatory, legal, or extra-legal responses (Warsaw/Poland, November)
• 59th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Hohenheim, November)
• Guest lecture "Algorithmic Recommendations in Creative Industries - The Case of #BookTok" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam/Netherlands, October)
• 8th annual conference of the French Law and Economics association (Nice/France, October)
• Annual conference of the media economics section of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (Stuttgart, October)
• Interdisciplinary Postdoc Conference "Competition in Digital Markets" (Würzburg, September)
• Guest lecture at the Competition Summer School for Asian Officials "Novel Forms of Abuses of Dominance in Digital and Green Economies" (Bruges/Belgium, July)
• 18th ASCOLA Conference (Athens/Greece, June/July)
• 58th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Weimar, May)
• 54th Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February)

2022

• 57th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Kleve, November)
• 7th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Economics (Lindau, August)
• 56th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Düsseldorf, June)

2021

• 55th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Ilmenau, November)
• 54th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (online, April)
• Young Antitrust Law Forum (online, March)

2020

• 15th ASCOLA Conference (online, June)
• Meeting of the Competition Working Group of the Verein für Socialpolitik - Reforms in German and European Antitrust Law (Berlin, March)
• 53rd Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February)

2019

• German Antitrust Law Conference 2019 (Cologne, September)
• 2019 Annual Conference of the Committee for Economic Systems and Institutional Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Potsdam, September)
• PhD Course: Introduction to Applied Business Economics Research with Stata (Esbjerg/Denmark, August)
• 17th Annual Conference of the German Law and Economics Association (Hanover, July)
• 14th ASCOLA Conference (Aix-en-Provence/France, June)
• 52nd Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Weimar, April)
• 52nd Radein Research Seminar (Radein/Italy, February)

2018

• 51st Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Düsseldorf, October)
• 2018 Annual Conference of the Committee for Economic Systems and Institutional Economics in the Verein für Socialpolitik (Hamburg, September)
• 50thHohenheim Advanced Seminar (Hohenheim, April)

2017

• 49th Hohenheim Advanced Seminar (Ilmenau, October)

winter semester 2025/2026

• Lecture & Exercise “Media Markets and Digitization”
• Graduate Research Seminar

Supervision of theses: Topics

Academic Society for Competition Law (Executive Board Member)

Interdisziplinäres Forum Wettbewerb (Mitbegründerin)

Dynamic Competition Initiative (Young Scholar)

Marburger Gesellschaft für Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft (Geschäftsführerin)

Verein für Socialpolitik

French Association of Law and Economics

Forschungsseminar Radein zum Vergleich von Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftssystemen e.V