19 mayo, 2020 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

19 mayo, 202026 mayo, 2020 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

«Fake Antitrust?: Fact checking on the Alleged Competition Law Case Against Facebook for the Proliferation of Fake News» – Primer coloquio virtual del capítulo América Latina de ASCOLA

Strategic Delegation and Collusion: An Experiment 30 septiembre, 2022
Strategic Delegation and Collusion: An Experiment Jeong Yeol Kim University of Arizona Abstract The assumption that firms maximize profit has been widely used in economics to explain firm behavior and market outcomes. But the profit maximization assumption may lead to...
D Daniel Sokol
Market Power in the Argentine Liquid Fuels Wholesale Chain 28 septiembre, 2022
Market Power in the Argentine Liquid Fuels Wholesale Chain By: M. T. Verónica Culós (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo); M. Florencia Gabrielli (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo/CONICET); Marcos Herrera Gómez (IELDE-UNSa/CONICET) Abstract: The liquid fuels market in Argentina is characterized by a...
D Daniel Sokol
Behavior-based Price Discrimination in the Domestic and International Mixed duopoly 27 septiembre, 2022
Behavior-based Price Discrimination in the Domestic and International Mixed duopoly By: Suzuka Okuyama Abstract: This study investigates mixed markets in which a social welfare-maximizing public firm and a private firm engage in behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD). Total of two cases...
D Daniel Sokol

El fracaso de la esclavitud como institución 4 octubre, 2022
Orlando Patterson... ha hecho un estudio sistemático de la historia de las sociedes esclavistas... La esclavitud verdadera, formal, atraviesa repetidamente el mismo ciclo vital aproximado, al final del cual, las circunstancias peculiares que explican su origen, unidas a las cualidades tenaces de la naturaleza humana conducen a su desaparición. La esclavitud […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
A por los primos 4 octubre, 2022
Los algoritmos para encontrar números primos se remontan al menos a la antigua Grecia, donde los matemáticos utilizaban un enfoque directo conocido como la Criba de Erastótenes. La criba de Erastóstenes funciona de la siguiente manera: Para encontrar todos los primos menores que n, se empieza por escribir todos los números del 1 al n en secuencia. A contin […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
La coordinación a través de la publicación de información: Ruanda 4 octubre, 2022
En un estudio sobre la influencia de una emisora de radio en la participación de los hutus en la matanza de tutsis en Ruanda, se lee que dicha influencia se produjo porque"las emisiones podrían haber tenido un efecto de persuasión directo al convencer a algunos oyentes de que la participación en los ataques contra los tutsis era preferible a la no parti […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL

Turkey: Automotive Companies are Cleared of the Allegations of Stockpiling and Competitively Sensitive Information Exchange! 3 octubre, 2022
Introduction The automotive sector has been on the radar of the Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) for a long time. In this sense, the TCA conducted an investigation (“Investigation”) regarding the allegations that some undertakings operating in the first-hand and second-hand automotive markets violated Law. No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Com […]
Mustafa Ayna (ACTECON), Özlem Başıböyük (ACTECON), Selim Turan (ACTECON) and Yüksel Talip Özbek (ACTECON)
India: Amazon – Future Group Dispute: Revisiting the Standard of Disclosure in M&A Filings 1 octubre, 2022
Background Amazon.com Inc. recently approached the Supreme Court against the decision of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), where the Tribunal affirmed the ruling of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The impugned decision of the Tribunal upheld the penalty order against Amazon.com, on the basis of non-disclosure and suppression of […]
Priyanshi (National Law University)
Two Years with Spain’s FDI Screening Mechanism – What Have We Learnt? 30 septiembre, 2022
Almost two and a half years have passed since Spain’s Royal Decree Laws 8/2020, of 17 March, on extraordinary urgent measures to address the economic and social impact of COVID-19, 11/2020, of 31 March, adopting additional urgent social and economic measures to address COVID-19, and 34/2020, of 17 November, on urgent measures to support business... Continue […]
Pablo Figueroa (Pérez-Llorca, Spain) and Julia M. Böhme (Pérez-Llorca, Spain)

SUPREME COURT PREVIEW: Is the Supreme Court about to hand the Federal Trade Commission another enforcement setback? 1 octubre, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court this term will hear arguments in a case questioning whether respondents in a Federal Trade Commission proceeding can challenge the constitutionality of the FTC’s procedures and structure in federal district court while an administrative action is pending or whether they must wait for appellate court review of a Commission cease-and-des […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
It’s Time For A Criminal Antitrust Whistleblower Statute (It Was Time Last Year And The Year Before Too) 17 agosto, 2022
The Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association’s 14th International Cartel Workshop took place over June 27-29, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. By all accounts the conference was a success and well attended. The only thing missing was, um, any international cartel cases to talk about. There are likely numerous reasons that international cartel cases have... […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
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)

Highlights of the Competition Bureau’s 2022 Competition and Green Growth Summit 30 septiembre, 2022
September 30, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses the Competition Bureau’s (Bureau) recent Competition and Green Growth Summit that was held on September 20, 2022. The Update discusses key aspects of the Commissioner of Competition’s remarks, some of the key recommendations made by [ […]
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Federal Court of Appeal’s Decision in Mohr Provides Guidance Under Section 48 of the Competition Act 25 agosto, 2022
August 24, 2022 Practical Law Canada Competition, of which I am Lawyer Editor, published a new Legal Update that discusses the recent Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) decision in Mohr v. National Hockey League, 2022 CarswellNat 3155 (F.C.A.), which upheld the Federal Court’s decision granting the defendants’ motion to strike in a class action against […] The po […]
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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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El TGUE confirma una sanción récord a Google por restricciones ilegales con el objeto de consolidar la posición dominante de su motor de búsqueda 16 septiembre, 2022
En su Decisión de 18 de julio de 2018 la Comisión Europea impuso la multa más elevada impuesta por una autoridad de competencia de la UE (más de 4 mil millones de euros) por abuso de posición dominante de Google, concretado en la imposición de las siguientes restricciones a sus contratantes: a) requerir la preinstalación de su aplicación de búsqueda general […]
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 […]

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: 19 de mayo de 2020

«Fake Antitrust?: Fact checking on the Alleged Competition Law Case Against Facebook for the Proliferation of Fake News» – Primer coloquio virtual del capítulo América Latina de ASCOLA