3 enero, 2018 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

3 enero, 20182 enero, 2018 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

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Transaction Costs in Common Ownership 8 agosto, 2022
Transaction Costs in Common Ownership Kenneth Khoo National University of Singapore (NUS) - Faculty of Law Abstract A phenomenon known as “Common Ownership” arises when shareholders hold substantial stakes in competing firms. Although recent empirical evidence has illustrated how common...
D Daniel Sokol
Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry - Evidence from the Notary Profession 5 agosto, 2022
Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry - Evidence from the Notary Profession Frank Verboven KU Leuven Biliana Yontcheva Vienna University of Economics and Business Abstract We study entry restrictions in a private monopoly: the Latin notary system. Under this widespread system,...
D Daniel Sokol
Cost-Price Relationships in a Concentrated Economy 4 agosto, 2022
Cost-Price Relationships in a Concentrated Economy By: Falk Bräuning; José Fillat; Gustavo Joaquim Abstract: The US economy is at least 50 percent more concentrated today than it was in 2005. In this paper, we estimate the effect of this increase...
D Daniel Sokol

¿Cómo regular la prostitución? 4 agosto, 2022
Los autores modelan el mercado de la prostitución como uno en el que conviven intercambios voluntarios e intercambios coactivos.Las prostitutas forzosas son obligadas por los proxenetas a vender sexo… Las prostitutas voluntarias, en cambio, se quedan con los ingresos y deciden vender sexo sólo si estos ingresos superan los costes”Los costes de producción de […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
“A ti San Andrés y a tu iglesia en Rochester, donde preside Justo el Obispo, te doy una porción de mi tierra" 2 agosto, 2022
La explicación de Maitland de cómo surgía una persona jurídica poniendo como ejemplo la erección de una capilla por el dueño de una finca en su terreno es muy ilustrativa de cómo ‘nace’ una persona jurídica a partir de la formación de un patrimonio que se dedica a un fin.Cuando un propietario quería ganarse el cielo, era frecuente en la Edad Media que dedica […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
No es necesario un acuerdo separado de aprobación del balance para la validez del acuerdo de aumento de capital con cargo a reservas 2 agosto, 2022
Es la Resolución de la DG de 6 de julio de 2022La cuestión a dilucidar en este expediente consiste en la inscripción de una ampliación de capital con cargo a reservas, modalidad regulada en el artículo 303 de la Ley de Sociedades de Capital, a la que la calificación registral atribuye dos defectos: a) que «no se indica que el balance que sirve de base a la o […]
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Israel: Class-action Suit in Case of Excessive Pricing 8 agosto, 2022
At the end of July, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a judgment giving local consumers the right to submit class-action suits against dominant companies in case of exorbitantly high prices. Background The dominant company at stake, Central Bottling, deals with the production, marketing and distribution of brands of the global Coca-Cola Company. This... C […]
Konstantin Voropaev (Elbert, Nazaretsky, Rakov & Co)
A New UK Subsidy Control System 5 agosto, 2022
Following its exit from the European Union, the UK is no longer bound by the EU’s rules governing public subsidies. At the end of April 2022, the UK Parliament passed the Subsidy Control Act 2022, which sets out a new framework for granting and controlling public subsidies. The Act is expected to enter into full... Continue reading
Cormac O’Daly (WilmerHale), Édouard Bruc (WilmerHale), Su Şimşek (WilmerHale) and John Ratliff (WilmerHale)
Summer Slowdown and Overview on Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2021 1 agosto, 2022
The Kluwer Competition Law Blog will remain open but will slow down a bit in the coming weeks. We hope you are having a wonderful summer! If you don’t want to miss out on reading about competition law developments in the meantime, we recommend catching up on our series on the main 2021 developments in... Continue reading
Lena Hornkohl (Deputy Editor) (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg)

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)

Deceptive Marketing-Related Developments Under the Competition Act 27 julio, 2022
July 28, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses recent Canadian deceptive marketing related developments under the Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34 (Competition Act). The Update includes a discussion of the recent deceptive marketing related amendments to the Competition Act and cu […]
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Sweeping Canadian Competition Act Amendments Passed 24 junio, 2022
June 24, 2022 On June 23, 2022, Bill C-19 (Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No.1) received royal assent, introducing sweeping amendments to Canada’s federal Competition Act. The amendments include significant increases to the civil and criminal penalties under the Competition Act, new wage fixing and no poach offences, new prohibitions on drip pricing and ex […]
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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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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 […]
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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: 3 de enero de 2018

Año nuevo y mismos umbrales para informar concentraciones empresariales