RT @joseazar: I had never read the 1968 merger guidelines before, but they're a great source on how antitrust was done before the Chicago r… 1 hour ago
June Ma, Australian National University (ANU), Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management; NBER, and Rabee Tourky, Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Economics study Market Structure in Bitcoin Mining. ABSTRACT: We analyze the...
Chungsang Lam, Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Meng Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management offer Demand and Consumer Surplus in the On-Demand Economy: The Case of Ride Sharing. ABSTRACT: How...
Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute asks The Return of Antitrust? ABSTRACT: In the middle of last century, policymakers and the courts came to accept the “Chicago school” interpretation of antitrust: unless it is demonstrated that consumers are being harmed, government should...
foto: edificio Caja Granada, de Campo BaezaEn este artículo, el autor – desgraciadamente fallecido en un accidente de tráfico – explica lo que significa ser científico. Comienza contando que “se hizo científico” porque operaron a su hermana del cerebro y estuvo a punto de morir y creyó que si había más gente dedicada a la Ciencia se podrían curar más enfermo […]
Quien ha tenido la suerte de conocer a Piganiol en vida, lo resucita en estos escritos. Lo ve, por ejemplo, cuando participaba en los congresos de la "Société d'histoire des droits de l'antiquité": sentado tristemente en un rincón escuchando las intervenciones más diversas; de pie dudando en aventurarse a intervenir con voz incierta inici […]
Benjamín PalenciaEs la Sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid de 2 de febrero de 2018. Un socio demanda al administrador que ha constituido otra sociedad que hace competencia a la primera. Para pedir el cese como administrador, está legitimado. Pero para ejercer acciones de competencia desleal en nombre de la sociedad, no. Y, como no lo está, pretend […]
The UAE Competition Committee held its first meeting of the year last month (on 26 March 2018) in which it discussed the development of guidelines and standards related to the implementation of UAE competition rules, including the UAE merger control regime.[1] The UAE Competition Committee also recently joined the International Competition Network (ICN) and […]
Gianni De Stefano, http://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/author/giannidestefano/, Array
On April 11, 2018, the European Commission published a proposed new EU law as part of a package of consumer protection measures. The proposed new law would introduce the first Europe-wide consumer class action system, exposing companies in a broad range of industries to new risks with potentially huge financial implications. The proposed new law... Continue […]
Anne Robert, http://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/author/anne-robert/, Array
On 13.03.2018 the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition (“BCPC”) published a decision finding that the Bulgarian National Television (“BNT”) and Nurts Digital EAD – a company operating in the sector of construction of networks and facilities in the TMT sector (“Nurts”) did not commit a breach of competition law. The BCPC was seized upon... Conti […]
On April 11, 2018, the European Commission published a proposed new EU law as part of a package of consumer protection measures. The proposed new law would introduce the first Europe-wide consumer class action system, exposing companies in a broad range of industries to new risks with potentially huge financial implications. The proposed new law... Continue […]
Anne Robert, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/arobertsa/, Array
Over the past weekend, the Chinese legislature decided on a major restructuring of governmental agencies – with a profound impact on antitrust enforcement in the country. The restructuring plan was announced by the State Council – the equivalent of China’s cabinet – on 13 March 2018 and was approved by the legislature on 17 March.... Continue reading The pos […]
Adrian Emch, Hogan Lovells, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/emchadrian/
Living Essentials LLC, the maker of 5-hour Energy drinks, has faced two recent suits in California federal courts alleging violations of Robinson-Patman’s prohibitions on price and promotional discrimination. The suits should teach other suppliers, especially those that sell to Costco, that private RP enforcement is alive and well and still requires careful […]
Steven J. Cernak, http://antitrustconnect.com/author/stevencernak/, Array
October 29, 2017 On October 26, 2017, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) issued its revised draft Immunity Program for public comments. The Bureau is updating its Immunity Program to reflect recent legal and policy developments (see here). The Commissioner of Competition originally announced in late 2015 that the Bureau planned to update its Immunity Prog […]
October 21, 2017 On October 19, 2017, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued an important CASL (anti-spam law) related decision in Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2017-367 (CompuFinder). In this case, CompuFinder had launched a constitutional challenge of CASL, relating to a notice of violation it received in 2 […]
October 16, 2017 Following the Federal Government’s plan to legalize marijuana in Canada, provinces are now working through the logistics of pot legalization at a local level. In this regard, Ontario and Alberta recently announced their planned approaches to legalization this fall. My new Canadian Lawyer column discusses some of the key aspects of these […] […]
La IV Jornada de la Red Académica de Derecho de la Competencia (RADC) se celebrará en la Facultad de Derecho de la UVEG (Valencia) el próximo viernes 1 de Junio de 2018. Las propuestas de comunicaciones para la Jornada RADC pueden versar sobre cualquier tema en materia de Derecho de la Competencia. La solicitud de interés puede enviarse hasta el 1 de mayo p […]
La Comisión Europea ha aprobado el 26 de febrero de 2018 la creación de una empresa conjunta (joint venture) por parte de dos empresas de USA (Michelin North America, Inc. y Sumitomo Corporation of Americas). La nueva joint venture se dedicará a los negocios de distribución e instalación de neumáticos de sus empresas fundadoras. La operación ha sido examinad […]
The Faculty of Law of the University of Zaragoza is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & Competition Law’, which will take place on 27 & 28 September 2018, in Zaragoza, Spain. Details on the submission procedure and key dates can be found at the end of this call.The Colloquium on ‘I […]
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 […]
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, […]
More and more companies have monopoly power over workers’ wages. That’s killing the economy. By Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl April 6, 2018 Vox “For a time, economists believed that labor markets were . . . competitive. But that conventional wisdom was vaporized by a series of empirical studies that suggest that labor market power […]
“Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty” is quite an ambitious book. The authors, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, attempt to put forth a global theory that explains the cause of the differences in prosperity across countries. Granted, there is already substantial work on how many factors, such as low levels […]
The understanding of complex social problems requires interdisciplinary approaches. In a Project Syndicate article, Ricardo Hausmann describes recent research on how moral psychology can improve current economic models of consumer behavior. This branch of psychology can give better insights on how to predict our economic choices, since we carry out transacti […]
Defining a set of conduct as a single and continuous infringement (SCI) has significant consequences for parties to a cartel, in particular for their exposure in follow-on damages actions. It is no surprise, therefore, that the increased prevalence of damages actions in Europe has led to greater scrutiny of the Commission’s findings about SCI. In […]
As avid readers of social media, Politico, Chillin Competition and other places will know, I left the Commission at the end of February. On 4 April I joined Covington’s growing competition team in Brussels. I will continue to write on this blog – though experience has taught me to make no promises as to whether […]