Javier Tapia

Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers: A Retrospective on Retrospectives 24 septiembre, 2021
Price Effects of Horizontal Mergers: A Retrospective on Retrospectives Annika Stöhr Ilmenau University of Technology Abstract In this comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies price effects of horizontal transactions are evaluated. By combining and further analyzing the results of 52...
D Daniel Sokol
Vertical Mergers with Bilateral Contracting and Upstream and Downstream Investment 24 septiembre, 2021
Vertical Mergers with Bilateral Contracting and Upstream and Downstream Investment Mark A. Israel Compass Lexecon Daniel P. O'Brien Compass Lexecon Abstract We extend the theory of bilateral vertical contracting to a double moral hazard setting where upstream and downstream firms...
D Daniel Sokol
How Will the FTC Evaluate Vertical Mergers? 23 septiembre, 2021
Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) and Herb Hovenkamp (Penn) have written How Will the FTC Evaluate Vertical Mergers? When the leading figures in antitrust economics and law write, it is worth reading and taking what they say very seriously.
D Daniel Sokol

Las cláusulas de Precio Mínimo Anunciado en publicidad (PMA) en el Derecho de la Competencia 23 septiembre, 2021
En ILO, ahora Lexology, Sebastian Jungermann ha publicado una nota con el siguiente título: Will European Commission change its policy to allow binding MAPs? Como es sabido, la UE, cada vez de forma más excepcional en el panorama comparado, sigue considerando una restricción de la competencia “hard core” la fijación del precio de reventa por parte del fabric […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Causa y fin de las instituciones 22 septiembre, 2021
Las instituciones suelen analizarse bien en términos de reglas, bien en términos de equilibrios. Nosotros hemos presentado una teoría híbrida que conjuga ambas… la función etiológica – causal - de las instituciones es generar beneficios cooperativos. Sus beneficios cooperativos explican la existencia (continuada) de las instituciones… Por ejemplo, la función […]
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Las sociedades irregulares de Girón en el Anuario de Derecho Civil de 1951 21 septiembre, 2021
Sherree Valentine-Daines.Es en este trabajo donde Girón reconstruye el concepto de sociedad y su personificación que luego incluirá con mayor extensión en su Derecho de Sociedades de 1975.Comienza Girón exponiendo el sistema francés: con la doctrina de la irregularidad se pretendía poner coto "a los riesgos de la comandita oculta en el seno de las soci […]
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Austria Introduces Significant Changes to its Competition Law 20 septiembre, 2021
On 10 September 2021, certain significant changes to Austria’s competition law entered into force, although some of the merger control related changes will apply only as of 1 January 2022: Merger control. The amendments include a revision of Austria’s revenue-based merger control threshold, the introduction of the significant lessening of competition test, a […]
Michael Mayr (Michael Mayr EU and Austrian Competition Law)
International Law Talk Podcast: The Revival Of The Dutch Clause And Other Conundrums Of Merger Control 16 septiembre, 2021
The newest episode of the competition edition of the International Law Talk Podcast focuses on the revival of the Dutch clause and other current issues of merger control. For this highly topical issue, I interviewed merger control star Tilman Kuhn from White & Case. Earlier this year, the European Commission encouraged Member States to use... Continue re […]
Lena Hornkohl (Deputy Editor) (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law)
Autumn dawn raid revival on the cards for European competition authorities 15 septiembre, 2021
This autumn, European competition authorities are likely to resume dawn raids of companies suspected of competition law infringements. This will aim to clear a backlog of planned inspections that has built up since the start of the pandemic resulting from organizational difficulties due to COVID-19 travel and social distancing restrictions. Companies shoul […]
Alexandra Rogers (White & Case), Strati Sakellariou-Witt (White & Case) and Peter Citron (Editor) (White & Case, Belgium)

Some “Twinkling of the Eye” Thoughts on NCAA v. Alston 30 junio, 2021
The Supreme Court’s decision in Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n v. Alston, Nos. 20-512 and 20-520, 2021 WL 2519036, (U.S. June 21, 2021) is a boost for the Antitrust Division’s commitment to prosecute what it calls naked “wage fixing” and “no poach” agreements. In the prosecutions it has brought to date (still in the early stages)... Continue reading The pos […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
House Passes Antitrust Whistleblower Protections Authored by Senators Grassley, Leahy 10 diciembre, 2020
Congratulations to Senator Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy for the passage in the House of Representatives of their bipartisan legislation that has already passed the Senate that aims to protect whistleblowers who come forward with information on criminal antitrust violations. In a December 8, 2020 Press Release Senator Grassley said, “The Criminal Antitr […]
Robert E. Connolly (Law Office of Robert Connolly)
A Look Back at Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Antitrust Opinions While on the Supreme Court 19 septiembre, 2020
As tributes pour in for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following news of her passing on September 18, the jurist is being remembered for her efforts to support women’s rights. This post is intended to provide a look back at Ginsburg’s contributions to antitrust law during her time on the High Court from... Continue reading The post A Look Bac […]
Jeffrey May (Wolters Kluwer)

Common Misperceptions Between Implied Consent and Exemptions Under CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Law) 22 septiembre, 2021
September 22, 2021 Canada’s federal anti-spam legislation (CASL), which is one of the strictest spam law regimes in the world, applies to commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that encourage participation in a commercial activity. CEMs are defined broadly as electronic messages with a purpose to encourage participation in a commercial activity, including off […]
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C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council’s Canadian Competition Law Reform Recommendations For Next Federal Government 17 septiembre, 2021
September 17, 2021 On September 9, 2021, the C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council (Competition Council) issued a new Communiqué with recommendations for the next Canadian federal government to amend the Competition Act and other Canadian competition policy recommendations. In its Communiqué, the Competition Council stated that competition law and […]
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Competition Bureau Advocates for Increased Competition in Manitoba Real Estate Services Markets 24 agosto, 2021
August 24, 2021 Practical Law Canada Competition (of which I am Lawyer Editor) has published a new Legal Update, which discusses a recent Competition Bureau (Bureau) submission to the Manitoba Securities Commission (MSC). The Update includes an overview of the Bureau’s advocacy powers under the Competition Act, R.S.C., c. C-34, summary of its submission to [ […]
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Retos y prioridades del Derecho de la Competencia (breve apunte al hilo del último informe sobre competencia de la Unión Europea) 1 agosto, 2021
El reciente informe de la Comisión Europea sobre la política de competencia 2020 (aquí) concreta no solo las cuestiones relevantes durante el difícil 2020, sino que da pistas sobre las principales líneas de actuación en los próximos años sobre competencia en la Unión Europea. En este sentido, podrían deducirse las siguientes cuestiones básicas:1º La preocupa […]
La dispensa parcial de la multa por cártel requiere aportar prueba de hechos nuevos con “valor añadido significativo” (significant added value), excluyendo el reforzamiento de pruebas existentes 22 julio, 2021
La sentencia del TJUE de 3 de junio de 2021 (aquí) confirma que la actual regulación europea sobre clemencia (Comunicación de 2006) mantiene el mismo criterio de la Comunicación de 2002 para reconocer una reducción de la multa derivada de la participación de un cártel (la conocida, a nivel europeo, como "dispensa parcial"). En el caso de la sentenc […]
Criterios europeos de determinación del tribunal de un Estado miembro para conocer demandas de daños derivados de ilícitos antitrust 12 julio, 2021
La sentencia del TJUE de 15 de julio de 2021 (aquí) resolvió una petición de decisión prejudicial planteada desde España y fija criterios para determinar el tribunal que, dentro de un Estado miembro, tiene jurisdicción sobre una demanda de daños causados por ilícitos antitrust. Dicha petición tuvo por objeto la interpretación del artículo 7, punto 2, del con […]

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

Autor: Javier Tapia

Antitrust Writing Awards

Sobre los 10 años del Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia de Chile

¡Cartelícense no más!: la negativa señal de la Corte Suprema chilena en un caso reciente