Department of Business Humanities and Law

Kathrine Søs Jacobsen Cesko’s research focuses on procurement law as well as competition law, and she has a special interest in the intersection between the two area’s regulatory frameworks.

Kathrine was awarded her PhD degree in 2022 in connection to the project ”Collaboration between Economic Operators in the Competition for Public Contracts: A Legal and Economic Analysis of

Grey Zones between EU Public Procurement Law and EU Competition Law”, which was financed in part by the Swedish Competition Authorities. The Phd thesis concerns the instances in which economical operators wish to collaborate on bidding for public tenders. In this regard, it focuses on the legal limitations to using letters of support, forming consortia and making use of subcontractors from a public procurement perspective as well as a competition law perspective. Further, the thesis includes an economic analysis of these collaborations with a focus on their derived effects as well as what impact they may have on competition in the internal market.