7 septiembre, 2020 – Derecho y Políticas de Libre Competencia en América Latina

7 septiembre, 2020 Juan David Gutiérrez R.

“Competencia y Competitividad”: Próximo seminario del capítulo América Latina de ASCOLA

Switching Costs, Brand Premia and Behavioral Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Market 18 septiembre, 2020
Switching Costs, Brand Premia and Behavioral Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Market Aljoscha Janssen Singapore Management University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) Abstract This article examines the market power of branded prescription drugs faced with generic competition. Using prescription-level and...
D Daniel Sokol
Price Dynamics of Swedish Pharmaceuticals 18 septiembre, 2020
Price Dynamics of Swedish Pharmaceuticals Aljoscha Janssen Singapore Management University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) Abstract This paper investigates price patterns of off-patent pharmaceuticals in Sweden. I show that price dynamics are dependent on the number of competitors in...
D Daniel Sokol
Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Review and Some Lessons for Australia 18 septiembre, 2020
Nursing Home Competition, Prices and Quality: A Review and Some Lessons for Australia Jongsay Yong University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research Ou Yang University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research Anthony...
D Daniel Sokol

La mano invisible del progreso: la vanidad de los eruditos 16 septiembre, 2020
"El conocimiento y el poder del ser humano son una sola cosa. Porque si no se conoce la causa, no se puede producir el efecto y para dominar a la naturaleza hay que obedecerla primero" BaconEn esta excelente recensión del último libro de Joel Mokyrk, A Culture of Growth, Spolaore se centra en su contenido más innovador: la Revolución Industrial gen […]
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La decadencia económica pero no militar de la España de los Austrias 16 septiembre, 2020
"este barquito de España no se hundirá nunca, por mucho que el agua pase por las cubiertas"Sor María de Agreda a Felipe IVEs una suposición subyacente en esta era post-keynesiana, que mantener el poder por parte de cualquier entidad política durante cualquier período de tiempo exige de una economía sólida. De ello se desprende que el estancamiento […]
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El trust reimaginado de Lionel Smith 16 septiembre, 2020
Foto: Manuel María de MiguelEn este breve trabajo, que sirve de introducción a un libro recopilatorio de artículos sobre el trust tal como ha sido codificado en Quebec, Smith repasa las distintas concepciones del trust y su encaje en las categorías del civil law. Recuérdese que Quebec tiene un sistema jurídico de tradición francesa y, por tanto, de Derecho C […]
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Catch-22: The European Commission Keeps Broadening Merger Control Intervention Powers and Gives a Glimpse of The Future 18 septiembre, 2020
A recent speech[1] by the European Commission’s (the Commission)’s Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager (the Commissioner), on the 30th anniversary of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR), praised it as having created “a better life for everyone”, “saved customers billions of euros each year” and, in “a matter of life and death”, ensured the continuati […]
Tilman Kuhn (White & Case), Thilo Wienke (White & Case), Jérémie Jourdan (White & Case) and Katarzyna Czapracka (White & Case)
Google Removes Display of Its Shopping Unit in Turkey After the Remedy Phase of the Turkish Competition Authority’s (TCA) Google Shopping Decision Gets Stuck 17 septiembre, 2020
On 29th of July, Google announced[1] that starting from 10th of August, it will be removing shopping ads (or “the Shopping Unit” as referred by the TCA as well as by the EU Commission) from its search pages in Turkey. According to the tech giant, the decision was taken because of the uncertainties surrounding the... Continue reading
Bahadir Balki (ACTECON) and Erdem Akdemir (ACTECON)
New rules prohibiting the abuse of economic dependence entered into force in Belgium on 22 August 2020 – What does this mean for the digital sector? 10 septiembre, 2020
Introduction The recently introduced prohibition of abuse of economic dependence (Article IV.2/1 Belgian Code of Economic Law) is a novelty in Belgian law, which may become of significant importance for the digital sector. The legal concept of abuse of economic dependence is aimed to target a situation where a company abuses the relative economic dependence. […]
Marc Wiggers (Loyens & Loeff, The Netherlands), Thomas Verstraeten (Loyens & Loeff) and Robin Struijlaart (Loyens & Loeff)

Seven U.S. business review letters in seven months reflect interest in Antitrust Division’s views on proposed business conduct 30 julio, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has issued more business review letters in 2020 than in any year since 2002. Recent years have averaged only one letter. So why is there this sudden interest in a statement of the Antitrust Division’s enforcement intentions with respect to proposed business conduct? Concerns about how the Antitrust... Continu […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Visit DOJ and Score a Leniency 16 junio, 2020
A. The Broiler Chicken Civil Litigation/Criminal Indictment On June 3, 2020, a grand jury in Colorado returned an indictment charging executives from Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and Claxton Poultry Farms with fixing prices and rigging bids nationwide for broiler chickens [I wonder how the grand jury met? Zoom?] The case was filed in the... Continue rea […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
Upcoming Sentencing of Former Bumble Bee CEO Christopher Lischewski 4 junio, 2020
US v. Lischewski, Case No. 3:18-cr-00203-EMC (N.D. Cal.) Christopher Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee who was convicted of price fixing after a trial last December, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, 2020. The government has requested a guidelines sentence of eight to ten years in prison and a $1 million fine. ... Continue reading The post Up […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)

Public Prosecution Service of Canada Continues to Settle Engineering Bid-Rigging Cases Under Competition Act Prohibition Order Provisions 1 julio, 2020
June 23, 2020 Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses recent settlements of bid-rigging cases under section 47 of the Canadian Competition Act under the Act’s prohibition order section, which offers a number of advantages for settling parties. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update at […]
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House of Commons Industry Committee Invites Grocery Chains to Explain Pandemic Pay Decision 1 julio, 2020
June 22, 2020 Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the recent decision by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to invite representatives of three major Canadian grocery chains to “explain their decision to cancel, on the same day, the modest increase in wages for front-line […]
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Destination Contests: Key Canadian Legal Considerations as COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Ease 15 mayo, 2020
May 15, 2020 Over the past several weeks, a marketing law trend that is emerging in my practice has been increased demand to work on destination marketing contests (i.e., contests promoting trips, vacations and adventures to particular destinations). This may seem slightly counterintuitive, but I have been contacted by several brands and local and internati […]
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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, […]
Francisco Agüero

Ex-post and ex-ante rules 6 agosto, 2020
Ex-post and ex-ante rules: why competition law and regulation don't easily fit into one or other category.
Kevin Coates
Access and Interoperability and Antitrust 16 julio, 2020
Many of you will have seen a lecture I’ve given on several occasions since around 2011 when I discuss antitrust issues around interoperability. My basic concern is that the competition rules – and I’m thinking in particular of the EU’s 2004 Microsoft Decision and the 2007 General Court upholding of that decision – see interoperability […]
Kevin Coates
The problem(s) of tech markets 3 febrero, 2020
There is a popular perception that competition law – and competition economics – has failed to keep up with technology markets. I don’t want to comment on whether I think that’s true but I do want to set out briefly what some of the problems might be. We’ve come a long way from a farmer […]
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 Regulamento na América Latina

Día: 7 septiembre, 2020

“Competencia y Competitividad”: Próximo seminario del capítulo América Latina de ASCOLA