Javier Tapia

Attention Intermediaries: Regulatory Options and their Institutional Implications 24 septiembre, 2020
Attention Intermediaries: Regulatory Options and their Institutional Implications Giorgio Monti Abstract Further regulation of digital platforms is on the horizon. Three types of solution are posited: more aggressive use of competition law, a new dedicated competition law instrument for the...
D Daniel Sokol
Two-stage Matching and Pricing with Applications to Ride Hailing 24 septiembre, 2020
Two-stage Matching and Pricing with Applications to Ride Hailing Yiding Feng Northwestern University - Dept. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Rad Niazadeh University of Chicago - Booth School of Business Amin Saberi Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering Abstract...
D Daniel Sokol
Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain 24 septiembre, 2020
Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain Dennis W. Carlton University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Abstract This...
D Daniel Sokol

Tras los maghribies, los toscanos 24 septiembre, 2020
Foto: Alfonso Vila FrancésUno de los trabajos más famosos de toda la historia económica es el de Avner Greif relativo a los comerciantes maghribies que organizaron una red comercial en torno al Mediterráneo en el siglo XI que pudo sostenerse gracias a que actuaban como agentes recíprocos lo que generaba en todos ellos intensos incentivos para cumplir los enc […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Es posible incluir en los estatutos, alternativamente, diferentes modos de administración mancomunada 23 septiembre, 2020
Los socios de una sociedad limitada deciden aprovechar las posibilidades del art. 210 LSC y, como si quisieran burlarse de alguien, establecen como modos alternativos de organizar la administración de la sociedad, todos los imaginables y dentro de ellos, varias formas alternativas de administración mancomunada. La cláusula estatutaria correspondiente llega h […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL
Cláusula multidivisa no transparente: no deviene transparente porque el consumidor no la impugne 22 septiembre, 2020
Es la Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 23 de julio de 2020, ECLI: ES:TS:2020:2626 En este caso, la Audiencia Provincial ha considerado que, en la fecha de suscripción del contrato, no se había ofrecido a los prestatarios información suficiente sobre los riesgos que conllevaba el préstamo multidivisa, en particular, el posible aumento del capital prestado, e […]
JESÚS ALFARO AGUILA-REAL

National Competition Authorities and Article 267 TFEU: the ECJ’s take on the referral by the Spanish Commission on Markets and Competition and its implications 22 septiembre, 2020
A welcome post by the new Deputy Editor Introduction and summary In the recent Anesco case, the ECJ held the preliminary request of the Spanish National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) inadmissible due to the fact that the CNMC was not a ‘court or tribunal’ for the purpose of Article 267 TFEU. The ECJ... Continue reading
Lena Hornkohl (Deputy Editor) (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, Luxembourg)
New French Competition Authority Merger Control Guidelines 21 septiembre, 2020
On 23 July 2020, the French Competition Authority (FCA or Authority) published new merger control guidelines, which replace the previous guidelines dated 4 July 2013. In the new guidelines, the Authority clarifies and completes (i) the procedural rules and (ii) the rules relating to the substantive examination of a merger. Key points The new... Continue re […]
Adrien Giraud (Latham & Watkins LLP) and Mathilde Ayel (Latham & Watkins LLP)
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)

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)
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)

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

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