20 marzo, 2016 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

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Reforming Australia's Merger Regime 29 junio, 2022
Reforming Australia's Merger Regime Julie N. Clarke Melbourne Law School Abstract Australia’s merger control regime recently returned to spotlight following recent statements by Chair of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Rod Sims, that Australia’s current merger laws are ‘failing...
D Daniel Sokol
Fintech, Market Power and Monetary Transmission 28 junio, 2022
Fintech, Market Power and Monetary Transmission Vincent Yao Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business Abstract We study how lenders' responses to monetary policy are affected by changes in market concentration due to the rise of new...
D Daniel Sokol
Privacy Costs and Consumer Data Acquisition: An Economic Analysis of Data Privacy Regulation 27 junio, 2022
Privacy Costs and Consumer Data Acquisition: An Economic Analysis of Data Privacy Regulation Zhijun Chen Department of Economics, Monash University Abstract General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to protect consumer data privacy, however, its adverse effects have been widely documented....
D Daniel Sokol

Pinker sobre el futuro de la inteligencia artificial 28 junio, 2022
Una definición de la "inteligencia" como mecanismo… sería algo así como "la capacidad de usar información para lograr una meta en un entorno". (“Usar información” es una forma abreviada de realizar cálculos que incorporan las leyes que gobiernan el mundo, es decir, lógica, causa y efecto, y regularidades estadísticas. “Alcanzar un objeti […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
¿Cómo se aplicaría la doctrina del levantamiento del velo a este caso? 27 junio, 2022
Paz-Ares (en Atributos y límites de la personalidad jurídica. Las cuentas en participación, un capítulo del Curso de Derecho Mercantil, I, 2006, p 555) cuenta el siguiente caso: Cinco hermanos copropietarios de un inmueble lo permutan por otros bienes con un primo lejano. La operación se escritura, pero no llega a inscribirse en el Registro de la Propiedad. […]
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La deplorable propuesta para mejorar el equilibrio de género en los consejos de administración 23 junio, 2022
La propuesta para mejorar el equilibrio de género en los consejos de administración de las empresas cotizadas en Europa data de 2012… El 14 de marzo de 2022, el Consejo llegó a un Enfoque General sobre la propuesta. Esto significa que, con toda probabilidad, el proyecto se convertirá en ley a través de un procedimiento acelerado sin ninguna discusión en prof […]
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EU General Court quashes Qualcomm antitrust fine for “exclusivity payments”, and censures the EU Commission for multiple due process and substantive errors 21 junio, 2022
The General Court of the European Union delivered a blow to the European Commission in fully annulling its Qualcomm (exclusivity payments) decision of 2018 and a EUR 997 million fine. Qualcomm v Commission[1] is the first annulment of an Article 102 TFEU decision adopted by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. The judgment is notably based on the... Continue rea […]
James Killick (White & Case), Assimakis Komninos (White & Case), Jérémie Jourdan (White & Case) and Iakovos Sarmas (White & Case)
The Digital Markets Act – We gonna catch ‘em all? 13 junio, 2022
The rapid development of digital markets has been posing major challenges to competition authorities for some time. The ‘internet giants’ consisting of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have as already known been able to gain and consolidate strong market positions faster than in analogue markets. The previous antitrust law was, according to the […]
Florian Heimann (Universität Würzburg)
Canadian Control and Foreign Investments in the Canadian Airline Sector 10 junio, 2022
The discussion of foreign investment law in Canada usually centres around the net benefit and national security review provisions of the Investment Canada Act (ICA). However, foreign investors must also be aware of different sector-specific laws in Canada that impose limits on foreign ownership of businesses in those sectors, including whether they exercise […]
Mark Katz (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Canada)

Per Se Rule: “I’m Still Standing (Yeah yeah yeah!)” 25 mayo, 2022
It has become common for defendants indicted on criminal antitrust charges to argue that the use of the per se rule in their trial is unconstitutional. The United States, however, has beaten back each attack with ample precedent from the relevant court of appeals fortified with long standing Supreme Court precedent (i.e., Trenton Potteries and... Continue re […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Will the Supreme Court Grant Certiorari and Review the Per Se Rule? 1 febrero, 2022
I have no expertise in predicting whether the Supreme Court will grant certiorari on any given petition. But I am hopeful that the high court will do so on the issue of whether the application of the per se rule in a criminal antitrust case is unconstitutional. I have seen a couple of items recently... Continue reading The post Will the Supreme Court Grant C […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Will 2022 be the year in which antitrust reforms become law? 31 diciembre, 2021
With 2021 coming to a close, a look back at antitrust legislation introduced in Congress over the last year will provide a sense of what new antitrust laws could come in 2022. More than a dozen bills are currently pending in Congress that could impact the future of antitrust law. Bipartisan support for strengthening the... Continue reading The post Will 2022 […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)

Retail Council of Canada (RCC) CASL Compliance Presentation: CASL Still Matters: Common Compliance Errors 17 mayo, 2022
May 17, 2022 We are pleased to be presenting a CASL (Canadian anti-spam law) compliance program for the Retail Council of Canada and its members on May 19, 2022. Presentation Overview In Canada, commercial electronic messages (CEMs), including e-marketing through text messages, e-mails and some social media, are governed by Canada’s federal anti-spam legisla […]
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Sweeping Proposed Competition Act Amendments Introduced by the Federal Government 11 mayo, 2022
May 4, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses sweeping proposed amendments to Canada’s Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34 (Competition Act) by the federal government. The proposed amendments include significant changes to the conspiracy, criminal and civil deceptive marketing, abuse […]
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Recent Canadian Conspiracy (Cartel) Law Developments 23 marzo, 2022
March 23, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update, which discusses recent conspiracy (cartel) law developments under sections 45 and 90.1 of the Competition Act. In particular, this Update discusses recent announcements made by the Competition Bureau, the federal Innovation, Science and Industry Minist […]
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Nuevo Reglamento y Directrices de la Unión Europea sobre la exención de acuerdos verticales 10 mayo, 2022
La Comisión ha adoptado un nuevo Reglamento de exención de acuerdos verticales (VBER) junto a sus Directrices (aquí), en vigor desde el 1 de junio de 2022, derogando al Reglamento (UE) 330/2010. Sin embargo, la prohibición del artículo 101.1 del TFUE no se aplicará durante el período comprendido entre el 1 junio de 2022 y el 31 mayo de 2023 a los acuerdos ya […]
Plazo razonable de resolución y determinación de la autoridad de competencia mejor situada (STGUE de 9 de febrero de 2022) 10 febrero, 2022
La sentencia del Tribunal General de la Unión Europea (TGUE) de 9 de febrero de 2022 (aquí) realiza interesantes consideraciones sobre dos cuestiones relevantes en la aplicación pública del Derecho de la Competencia: el principio del “plazo razonable” para la tramitación del procedimiento sancionador y la determinación de la autoridad de competencia mejor si […]
Los descuentos realizados desde una posición de dominio serán lícitos si se prueba que no tuvieron la capacidad de restringir la competencia o de producir efectos de expulsión del mercado (Asunto Intel) 27 enero, 2022
El Tribunal General de la Unión Europea (TGUE) ha anulado (aquí) una importante sanción —más de 1.000 millones de euros— que en 2009 impuso la Comisión Europea al fabricante de microprocesadores Intel por realizar descuentos de fidelidad y pagos desde su posición de dominio a otros fabricantes (Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard y NEC) para que le compraran los p […]

Comisión Europea v Google 28 agosto, 2015
Hace cuatro meses, la Comisión Europea le envió a Google [Diclaimer: este blog se aloja en un sitio de Google] su Statement of Objections (SO) en la que indicaba qué le objetaba a dicha firma (síntesis: buscador, android tal vez, otros que no recuerdo). La investigación comenzó en 2010, convengamos. En síntesis, se decía:"Google systematically positions […]
Francisco Agüero
i am back 28 agosto, 2015
El último post fue hace varios meses. Razones para escribir, abundan. Razones para no escribir, pueden ser mayores. Como sea: I am back.
Francisco Agüero
U. of Chicago Summer Institute Law and Economics: Economic Analysis of Contracts and Commercial Law 14 enero, 2015
Un interesante programa en Derecho & Economía imparte la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago, en julio de este año. Me parece recomendable (disclaimer: postulé a él), y hay docentes del nivel de Eric Posner, Randal Picker, entre otros.Más información, acá: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/summerinstitute P.D.. El deadline se ha extendido, […]
Francisco Agüero

EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results 29 julio, 2021
Interesting that while the European Parliament is processing over 1000 proposed amendments to the DMA, the controversial issue of self-preferencing now seems to be a consumer protection issue and not just an antitrust one (via Reuters): Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and […]
Kevin Coates
Google Italy, refusal to supply decision 13 mayo, 2021
The Italian competition authority’s decision into Google’s refusal to allow interoperability between Android and a third party app is published here. Simonetta Vezzosa (@wavesblog) has done a mammoth twitter thread, translating key parts, and pausing only for occasional injections of espresso. For an uncorrected full English machine translation courtesy of D […]
Kevin Coates
The EU’s draft Digital Markets Act (DMA): mapping recitals onto the relevant articles 3 febrero, 2021
Caveat: this is a judgement exercise. The links I’ve made may be wrong and / or incomplete. Recitals without a specific Article: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 34, 35, Articles without a specific recital: 1 (subject matter and scope), 14 (opening of market investigation), 25 (cease and desist), 33 (MS request for […]
Kevin Coates

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Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

Competencia y Regulación en América Latina | Antitrust and Regulation in Latin America | Concorrência e Regulaçao na América Latina

Día: 20 de marzo de 2016

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