February 2019 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: The European Court of Justice’s Judgment In Case C-265/17 P, Commission v. United Parcel Service By Marjolein De Backer (Dechert)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article Summary On January 16, 2019 the European Court of Justice […]
February 2019 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents: The scope of the Standstill Obligation in the EU Merger Control Regulation By Bo Vesterdorf, Gitte Holtsø, & Anne-Marie Rosman Nielsen (Plesner Law Firm)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article In a ruling of May 31 […]
February 2019 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: What the Servier judgment1 teaches us about market definition under Article 102 and patent settlement agreements under Article 101 By James Killick, Jérémie Jourdan & Pierre Pêcheux (White & Case)2 Click here for a PDF version of the article For […]
CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) present: Regulatory Sandbox and Competition of Financial Technologies in Taiwan By Andy C. M. Chen (Chung Yuan Christian University)1 Click here for a pdf version of this article. Financial technology, or “FinTech” for short, has become the buzzword for today’s digital economy. The rapid advancements […]
January 2019 Why the Consumer Welfare Standard Remains the Best Guide for Promoting Competition By Joe Kennedy (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article Introduction The central goal of antitrust policy should be to maintain competitive markets so that companies feel continued pressure to improve quality, lower […]
Merger Review in the 2020s: Do Digitalization and Globalization Change the Analysis? – By Toshiko Igarashi (Japan Fair Trade Commission)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article. On November 7 and 8, 2018, ICN Merger Working Group held the fifteenth ICN Merger Workshop, in Tokyo, hosted by the Japan Fair Trade Commission. Over […]
January 2019 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents: Excessive Pricing in Pharmaceutical Markets By Pedro Caro de Sousa (OECD)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article Introduction This piece summarises the contents of a background note written for an OECD roundtable on excessive pricing in […]
CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) present: CCI’S Guidance on Calculation of Turnover By Nandish Vyas and Geet Sawhney (Veritas Legal, India)1 Click here for a pdf version of this article. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) recently amended its FAQ’s on combination (Amended Combination FAQs), published on its website,2 in […]
January 2019 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind? By Simonetta Vezzoso (Università degli Studi di Trento)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has earned a solid reputation as […]
January 2019 CPI EU News Column edited by Thibault Schrepel, Sam Sadden & Jan Roth (CPI) presents: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market (“ECN Plus Directive”) By Florian Wagner-von Papp […]