24 marzo, 2020 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

24 marzo, 2020 Carlos Esguerra Cifuentes

Plataformas digitales y COVID-19 ¿Qué nos espera?

24 marzo, 20204 abril, 2020 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

“Competencia y Salud en Tiempos de COVID-19” – Seminario virtual del capítulo regional de América Latina de ASCOLA

Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference November 5 - 6, 2020 Washington, D.C. - Call for Papers 3 abril, 2020
Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference November 5 - 6, 2020 Washington, D.C. Call for Papers The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 13th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference...
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Rethinking Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption 3 abril, 2020
Roger D. Blair, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Wenche Wang, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are Rethinking Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption. ABSTRACT: For nearly a century, Major League Baseball...
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Regulation of Algorithm-Based Price Cartels in the Taxi-Online Business in Indonesia: Quo Vadis? 3 abril, 2020
Udin Silalahi, National University of Malaysia (UKM) asks Regulation of Algorithm-Based Price Cartels in the Taxi-Online Business in Indonesia: Quo Vadis? ABSTRACT: Digital economy is developing rapidly worldwide. New digital opportunities create new business opportunities like online taxi. The existence...
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Hogan y los artículos 1.2, 3.1 y 4.2 de la Directiva de cláusulas abusivas 5 abril, 2020
Foto: Mercedes López OrdialesEn sus Conclusiones presentadas el 2 de abril de 2020 en los Asuntos acumulados C‑84/19, C‑222/19 y C‑252/19, el Abogado General Hogan se ha ocupado, en primer lugar, de interpretar el art. 1.2 de la Directiva de cláusulas abusivas. Ese precepto establece que no es aplicable la Directiva a las cláusulas predispuestas que se limit […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Reduccionismo aplicado 4 abril, 2020
Que los seres humanos tendemos a antropomorfizar la naturaleza es evidente. Hay incluso una figura retórica – la prosopopeya – para denominar su utilización en la literatura. Pero Pascal Boyer pide que no antropomorficemos a los seres humanos. Con esta admonición se refiere a que igual que el mundo natural está gobernado por las leyes de la física y no por […]
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Universalización y problemas de umbral 4 abril, 2020
Los autores definen este tipo de problemas – problemas de umbral – por su estructura. Esta es tal que si sólo unas pocas personas se apartan de la regla (en lo que sigue, “desertan”), nadie sale perjudicado, pero cuando muchas personas desertan (es decir, los desertores superan un determinado número o "umbral") todos salen perjudicados.Es sabido qu […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL

Authorities have to consider different types of evidence. The UK Court of Appeal broadly upholds the CAT’s judgment in Phenytoin and clarifies “excessive pricing” test 2 abril, 2020
Summary On 10 March 2020 the Court of Appeal upheld the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT) quashing of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) decision that Pfizer and Flynn Pharma (Flynn) had abused their dominant positions in the market by pricing their epilepsy drug unfairly. Among other aspects, the Court of Appeal broadly upheld the CAT’s... Con […]
James Killick (White & Case) and Assimakis Komninos (White & Case)
25th Anniversary of the Eurasian Economic Project: First Steps in Regulation of Cross-Border Competition 25 marzo, 2020
Globalization and regional integration processes are trends that determine the development of the world’s economy at present and, as a result, substantially affect competition policy. To address new challenges in global markets, different states cooperate more closely with each other on competition law matters. Considered international cooperation is require […]
Ksenia Tarkhova (ALRUD) and Anastasia Kayukova (ALRUD)
EU State Aid and COVID-19 24 marzo, 2020
Overview Given the unprecedented challenge faced by European businesses in the wake of the public health measures being adopted, the EU and its Member States are taking extraordinary measures to minimise the economic fallout from COVID-19. Over the coming weeks, Member States will make available billions in financial aid an in a speech on 13... Continue read […]
Paula Riedel (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Thomas Wilson (Kirkland & Ellis, United Kingdom) and Shane Cranley (Kirkland & Ellis LLP)

First U.S. Business Review Letter Issued Clearing Medical Supply Distributor Cooperation to Fight COVID-19 4 abril, 2020
Medical supply distributors McKesson Corporation, Owens & Minor Inc., Cardinal Health Inc., Medline Industries Inc., and Henry Schein Inc. have received approval from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division to collaborate on manufacturing, sourcing, and distributing personal-protective equipment (PPE) and coronavirus-treatment-related medication. On […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
Viamedia: Seventh Circuit Makes Dismissal of Refusal to Deal Claims Very Difficult 25 marzo, 2020
Last month, the Seventh Circuit in Viamedia Inc. v. Comcast Corp.[1] found that refusal to deal claims can still be successfully alleged under Sherman Act Section 2 if plaintiff’s allegations mirror those in Aspen Skiing closely enough. If it stands, the opinion will make it much more difficult for monopolist defendants to dismiss such claims... Continue re […]
Steven J. Cernak (Bona Law PC)
Will FTC’s winning record end planned Philadelphia-area hospital merger? 1 marzo, 2020
The FTC and State of Pennsylvania on February 28 moved to block the proposed merger of Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, two leading providers of inpatient general acute care hospital services and inpatient acute rehabilitation services in the Philadelphia area. The FTC issued an administrative complaint alleging that the proposed merg […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)

COVID-19 (Corona Virus): Canadian Competition and Advertising Law Developments 28 marzo, 2020
March 28, 2020 The global spread of COVID-19 has had significant impacts in most major areas of law, including Canadian competition and advertising law. Both federal and provincial governments in Canada have been introducing unprecedented new legislation and orders relating to key aspects of competition and advertising law, including price-fixing, price gou […]
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New Competition Bureau Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest: Priorities Include Misleading Data Privacy Claims 6 marzo, 2020
March 6, 2020 Practical Law Canada Competition has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Competition Bureau’s new Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest, including the following key current Competition Bureau advertising enforcement priorities: false or misleading data privacy claims, weight loss claims and online pricing and drip pricing. All of t […]
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My New Canadian Lawyer Column: Upfront Pricing – Is That Too Much To Ask? 27 febrero, 2020
February 27, 2020 In my new Canadian Lawyer Column, I take a bit of a light-hearted tiptoe through recent drip-pricing cases enforced by the Competition Bureau, including the announcement on February 13, 2020 that StubHub agreed to pay $1.3 million for allegedly violating the misleading advertising provisions of the Competition Act by failing to adequately [ […]
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Ayudas Públicas y Coranovirus (COVID-19) 17 marzo, 2020
Autor: Comisión EuropeaAnte la situación excepcional a que asiste la Unión Europea, la Comisión (UE) ha presentado un "Marco temporal" (aplicable a ayudas públicas concedidas desde el 1 de febrero de 2020 a finales de año) que flexibiliza y otorga rapidez a la concesión de ayudas estatales relacionadas con el Coranovirus (aquí). Este documento supo […]
El resarcimiento de daños causados en mercados no afectados por un cártel (STJUE de 12 de diciembre de 2019) 13 diciembre, 2019
La sentencia de 12 de diciembre de 2019 (aquí) del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) resuelve una petición de decisión prejudicial planteada por el Tribunal Supremo de Austria en relación con un litigio sobre reclamación de indemnizaciones derivadas de un cártel prohibido por el artículo 101 TFUE realizado entre empresas del sector de los ascen […]
La doctrina jurisprudencial sobre el «hallazgo causal» y su supeditación a la idoneidad y proporcionalidad de la inspección (Sentencia Tribunal Supremo de 22 de octubre de 2019) 6 noviembre, 2019
Uno de los problemas habituales en la aplicación práctica del Derecho Antitrust por parte de autoridades de competencia y judiciales (europeas y españolas) es el de los límites de las actuaciones de inspección. La coexistencia de intereses muy diversos genera conflictos entre los derechos de inspección de la Administración y los de defensa de los afectados o […]

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, […]
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Mobile payments, antitrust and socio-economic development 18 julio, 2018
Digital Markets, Mobile Payments Systems, and Development – Competition Policy Implications in Developing Countries in Light of the EU Experience “Abstract The digitization of economic activity has important socio-economic development implications and at the same time creates challenges for antitrust analysis. These implications and challenges have been met […]
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A contribution to the empirics of algorithmic pricing 12 julio, 2018
An Empirical Analysis of Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon Marketplace “Abstract The rise of e-commerce has unlocked practical applications for algorithmic pricing (also called dynamic pricing algorithms), where sellers set prices using computer algorithms. Travel websites and large, well known e-retailers have already adopted algorithmic pricing strategies, but […]
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What do computer scientists have to say about algorithmic collusion? 4 julio, 2018
The importance of talking to computer scientists before making assumptions about what pricing algorithms can do: Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Collusion “Abstract This paper discusses the question whether self-learning price-setting algorithms are able to coordinate their pricing behaviour to achieve a collusive outcome that maximizes the joint profits o […]
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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 Regulamento na América Latina

Día: 24 marzo, 2020

Plataformas digitales y COVID-19 ¿Qué nos espera?

“Competencia y Salud en Tiempos de COVID-19” – Seminario virtual del capítulo regional de América Latina de ASCOLA