9 abril, 2019 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

9 abril, 2019 Federico Rossi Rodriguez

Cornerstones of effective leniency programmes – The Latin American experience

Collusion Through Debt and Managers 1 julio, 2022
Collusion Through Debt and Managers Raffaele Fiocco University of Bergamo Salvatore Piccolo Compass Lexecon Giancarlo Spagnolo Stockholm School of Economics (SITE); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'; EIEF Abstract In a market where firms interact...
D Daniel Sokol
EU Competition Law and Democracy in the Shadow of Rule of Law Backsliding 30 junio, 2022
EU Competition Law and Democracy in the Shadow of Rule of Law Backsliding Kati Cseres University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance and Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Abstract Competition is a vital component of,...
D Daniel Sokol
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

Conciencia = aprendizaje asociativo ilimitado 2 julio, 2022
¿Existe una propiedad única y tangible que cuando está presente en un ser vivo significa que reúne todas las características de la conciencia, un marcador de transición evolutiva de la conciencia? Creemos que hemos identificado tal marcador. Nuestro marcador es una forma de aprendizaje asociativo abierto, que llamamos aprendizaje asociativo ilimitado (UAL).… […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Cómo se explica que el mundo se hiciera rico 2 julio, 2022
De la recensión de Mokyr al libro de Rubin y Koyama, destacan dos aspectos. El primero, la relación entre el Imperialismo europeo y la Revolución Industrial y el ‘Gran Enriquecimiento” del mundo. Mokyr dice que no hay relación de causalidad entre el segundo y la primera."el crecimiento económico es fundamentalmente un juego de suma positiva: a nivel glo […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Altruismo (en forma de ayudar a la crianza de las crías de otro) no para aumentar la reproducción media de los parientes, sino para reducir la varianza en dicha reproducción en entornos impredecibles 2 julio, 2022
Las explicaciones de la evolución del altruismo a través de la selección de parentesco (ayudamos a aquellos con los que compartimos genes) suelen centrarse en escenarios en los que los actos altruistas producen beneficios indirectos para el actor al aumentar el éxito reproductivo medio de sus parientes. Sin embargo, la teoría reciente ha puesto de relieve qu […]
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Ireland adopts major changes to competition rules 1 julio, 2022
On 29 June 2022, Ireland enacted major reforms to its Competition Act. These changes will impact on all sectors across the Irish economy, with potential target industries such as Life Sciences, Energy, Technology and Consumer Goods facing increased scrutiny – particularly as Ireland is a key HQ location for EMEA operations. While the reforms belatedly... C […]
Darach Connolly (DLA Piper Ireland)
Canada Joins the Labour Party: “Wage-Fixing” and “No-Poaching” Agreements are now Illegal Under the Competition Act 30 junio, 2022
Competition authorities globally continue to focus attention on potential anticompetitive conduct affecting labour markets, with a particular emphasis on “wage-fixing” and “no-poaching” agreements. Although Canada was somewhat late in addressing this issue, the federal government has now passed amendments to the Canadian Competition Act that criminalize wage […]
Mark Katz (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Canada)
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)

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: 9 de abril de 2019

Cornerstones of effective leniency programmes – The Latin American experience