Mar 26, 2013 CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) Shaping the ICN’s Next Years by Andreas Mundt (ICN, Bundeskartellamt) (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) ICN Vice Char Andreas Mundt writes this month’s ICN column, sharing his experience working with ICN leadership to address new issues […]
Mar 21, 2013 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) presents: Microsoft Fined for Non-Compliance: A Game-Changer in Antitrust Settlements by Mario Mariniello (Bruegel) (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) Introduction by Europe Column editor Anna Tzanaki Our March Europe Column is dedicated to the Commission’s landmark decision […]
Alain De Remes La Brely, Rodrigo Rios, Mar 14, 2013 Regional Competition Center for Latin America Presents: First Seminar for Latin American Judges to Discuss Rulings on Competition Cases – Alain De Remes and Rodrigo Ríos (CRCAL) (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) This month, the Regional Competition Center for Latin America […]
David Evans, Mar 13, 2013 (Click here for a PDF version of the article.) In the next several columns I am going to develop the argument that the economics profession now knows that many standard results do not in fact apply, at least not without modification, to businesses that are multisided platforms. This is based […]
Cynthia Lewis Lagdameo, Nov 27, 2012 CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) Unilateral conduct has long been touted as the most difficult and controversial area of antitrust law. Some have described taking on convergence in unilateral conduct as attempting “the Mount Everest of antitrust.”1 In 2006 the ICN was […]
Martin Mandorff, Jan 10, 2013 CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) The enforcement of unilateral conduct law is arguably the most challenging task of antitrust. Nowhere do the controversies run as deep as when determining whether a certain type of unilateral conduct is pro- or anticompetitive. Add to this the […]
Dec 13, 2012 Regional Competition Center for Latin America Presents: Guidelines on quantitative techniques for competition analysis – Prepared by the CRCAL* *David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Kostis Hatzitaskos, Senior Manager, Cornerstone Research; Vandy Howell, Vice President, Cornerstone Research; and Brad Howells, Associate, Cornerstone Research. With newly […]
Antonio Bavasso, Dominic Long, Dec 20, 2012 In this moth’s Europe column, Antonio Bavasso and Dominic Long (Allen & Overy LLP) discuss the EU Commission’s landmark clearance of the Orange Austria acquisition by H3G. The much-awaited decision came down last week, reaffirming the EC’s traditional approach to merger control with a central focus on short […]
Dec 18, 2012 CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) presents: The new trend of network distribution and a reconsideration of copyright protection by Jason Si (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, IP Institute Doctoral Candidate, Director of Tencent Legal Department) Abstract: In recent years, the market for digital content […]
David Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Nov 13, 2012 This paper provides a brief progress report on market definition and the analysis of mergers for multi-sided platforms. It provides an update to an earlier article on multi-sided platform market definition. (For an overview of multi-sided platforms including the antitrust analysis of these platforms see Platform Economics.)