Javier Tapia

Is the Consumer Welfare Obsolete? A European Union Competition Law Perspective 30 noviembre, 2020
Is the Consumer Welfare Obsolete? A European Union Competition Law Perspective By: Frédéric Marty (Université Côte d'Azur, France; GREDEG CNRS) Abstract: In 2005, the European Commission advocated for a more economic approach for enforcing competition laws. The sole criterion for...
D Daniel Sokol
Collusive Market Allocations 30 noviembre, 2020
Collusive Market Allocations By: Iossa, Elisabetta; Loertscher, Simon; Marx, Leslie; Rey, Patrick Abstract: Collusive schemes by suppliers often take the form of allocating customers or markets among cartel members. We analyze incentives for suppliers to initiate and sustain such a...
D Daniel Sokol
Market structure, common ownership and coordinated manager compensation 30 noviembre, 2020
Market structure, common ownership and coordinated manager compensation By: Neus, Werner; Stadler, Manfred; Unsorg, Maximiliane Abstract: We study oligopolistic competition in product markets where the firms' quantity decisions are delegated to managers. Some firms are commonly owned by shareholders such...
D Daniel Sokol

La esencia de la personalidad jurídica es la capacidad de ser responsable 30 noviembre, 2020
El texto que reproduzco a continuación fue escrito en 1911. Refleja, bastante bien, por qué debemos tener una concepción patrimonial de la personalidad jurídica: lo importante, para ser considerado como una persona jurídica – una “entidad” dice el autor – por el Derecho es si puedes ser considerado responsable, esto es, si puedes atenerte a las consecuencias […]
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Por qué los noroccidentales son pacientes 30 noviembre, 2020
En un experimento realizado con los BaYaka, (resumido en esta entrada), una tribu de cazadores recolectores que viven en la cuenca del río Congo, se comprobaba la paciencia de estos africanos ofreciéndoles una unidad de una sopa ahora o cinco unidades de sopa al día siguiente. Se comprobó que los BaYaka del experimento que vivían en una ciudad eran más pacie […]
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Dikaion y torah (¿derecho privado y derecho público?) 27 noviembre, 2020
El dikaion, - ius - define la medida de un justo reparto de las cosas, de las cosas repartidas entre los ciudadanos que forman parte de un grupo social, una ciudad; suum cuique tribuere, tal es la función del arte del derecho, del ius. Es el arte del iudex, el que dice el derecho y de los juristas que son sus auxiliares. … el derecho se escribe en el modo in […]
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EU Data Governance Regulation – A Wave of Regulatory and Antitrust Reform Begins 30 noviembre, 2020
On November 25, 2020, the European Commission (EC) published its proposed Data Governance Regulation (the DGR), which will create a new legal framework to encourage the development of a European single market for data. The DGR, proposed in the EC’s February 2020 Digital Strategy, is the first of a wave of regulatory and antitrust reforms... Continue reading […]
Jay Modrall (Norton Rose Fulbright, Belgium)
Who strikes next? Italian Competition Authority v Google 27 noviembre, 2020
Competition authorities are increasingly scrutinizing Google around the globe: The European Commission was the first authority to investigate Google and has issued three record-level fines in Google Shopping, Google Android and Google AdSense. In the US, the DoJ has recently filed a complaint against Google with the US Supreme Court arguing that Google abuse […]
Johannes Persch (University of Mannheim)
The Booking judgment adopted by the ECJ: Greater access to justice for victims of abuses of a dominant digital platform 26 noviembre, 2020
The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued today its judgment in Case C-59/19 Wikingerhof v. Booking.com. This ruling will certainly be of great interest to the corporate victims of abuses of a dominant digital platform. This judgment addresses both the nature of the action which alleged victims of... Continue reading
Marc Barennes

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)

Hockey Helmet Performance Claims Case Illustrates Competition Act Compliance Requirements 21 noviembre, 2020
November 21, 2020 Practical Law Canada Competition (of which I am Lawyer Editor) has published a new Legal Update, which discusses recent enforcement by the Competition Bureau against an ice hockey helmet manufacturer in relation to allegedly unsupported performance claims. The Legal Update includes an overview of the case, requirements imposed by the Compet […]
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Competition Bureau Navigates the Pandemic 4 noviembre, 2020
November 4, 2020 Practical Law Canada Competition (of which I am Lawyer Editor) has published a new Legal Update, which discusses highlights of the Commissioner of Competition’s address on October 21, 2020 at the Canadian Bar Association’s annual competition law conference, which took the form of an online symposium this year. The Commissioner focused on […] […]
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Canadian Contest Precedents to Run Common Types of Contests/Sweepstakes in Canada 1 noviembre, 2020
November 1, 2020 Are you planning to run a contest/sweepstakes in Canada to promote your business (or a client’s business) and need sophisticated Canadian legal precedents? I have developed a number of legal precedents and forms for running common types of promotional contests in Canada, excluding Quebec (commonly referred to “sweepstakes” in the United Sta […]
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Nuevas sanciones en la UE por prácticas restrictivas en el mercado farmacéutico ("pay for delay") 27 noviembre, 2020
La Comisión UE ha multado una vez más (recuérdense los asuntos Lundbeck o Servier) por prácticas conocidas como "pay for delay" en el ámbito del mercado farmacéutico, concretamente en relación con el medicamento genérico. La coexistencia de "empresas originarias" (o "innovadoras"), que tienen la exclusiva (patente) respecto a un […]
El "Buy Box" de Amazon como medio para abusar de su posición de dominio 10 noviembre, 2020
La UE ha dado un paso importante para sancionar a Amazon por abuso de posición de dominio (aquí la nota de la Comisión), confirmando así los rumores existentes. Si finalmente se considera que ha abusado de tal posición de dominio Amazon puede ser sancionada hasta con 24.000 millones de euros (la sanción máxima es la correspondiente al 10% del volumen de nego […]
Abuso de posición dominante e interés del consumidor (a propósito de la demanda de USA contra Google) 22 octubre, 2020
Una de las novedades más destacables procedentes de los Estados Unidos (USA) es la esperada demanda contra Google por abuso de posición dominante (aquí). Aunque el Derecho Antitrust siempre ha estado atento a las grandes empresas (recuérdese la Standard Oil de Rockefeller), la irrupción de grandes gigantes tecnológicos ha ido cambiando la política intervenci […]

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

Data: the uniqueness of the dataset and the slope of the value curve 1 noviembre, 2020
Some questions to ask about datasets and the importance of that data for markets, firms and allegations of market power: Is the data already replicated elsewhere? Is the data replicable? Is it rivalrous? If it is does the value of the dataset continue to increase with the size of the dataset? And if so, up […]
Kevin Coates
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

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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