Will the Digital Markets Act Kill Innovation in Europe?
By Pierre Larouche* & Alexandre de Streel+
In December 2020, the European Commission proposed an ambitious new set of rules, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”),1...
Buyer Cartels: Defining Appropriate Competition Policy
Buyer power issues are of increasing concern for competition law and policy. This includes buyer cartels. It is important to distinguish cartels from legitimate...
Cartel Settlements: Facilitating Damages Claims But Hybrid Cases Remain Unsettling
By Marieke Datema, Andrew Leitch & Ed Coulson (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)1
I. Introduction
Over ten years since the introduction of the European Commission Settlement Notice,...
2021, A New Era of Chinese Antitrust Law
By Frances Xu & Howard Chan1
China Antitrust Enforcement Round-Up
Ever since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (“CPC”), China has gradually...
“Privacy Fixing” After Texas et al v. Google and CMA v....
By Tim Cowen, Claire Barraclough & Josh Koran1
Executive Summary
Societies have designed antitrust laws to protect consumers from unfair practices (e.g. exclusive dealing, price fixing,...
Setting Fines in Antitrust Cases — A Review of the Application...
By Francesca Gentile, Raphael Reims & Petar Petrov1
Introduction
According to Article 23(2)(a) Regulation No. 1/2003, the Commission may impose fines on undertakings and associations of...
No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Agreements in Canada – So What’s the Issue?
By Chris Margison & Robin Spillette1
Introduction
The application of antitrust laws to no-poach2 and wage-fixing agreements3 is currently being debated in many jurisdictions around the...
Ex Ante Regulation of Digital Platforms?: Cautionary Tales From Telecommunications
Whether there should be increased antitrust enforcement, and/or ex ante regulation of heretofore lightly-regulated major high-tech companies has attached considerable academic, policy, and popular...
Can We Teach Antitrust to an Algorithm?
By Giovanna Massarotto* & Ashwin Ittoo**
The answer is “Yes.” Prof. Ashwin Ittoo and I have built a machine learning (“ML”) algorithm — an AI...
Analyzing Nascent Competitor Acquisitions Rationally
By John M. Taladay & Jeffrey S. Oliver1
Many recent articles have posited that dominant companies are squelching competition by buying up nascent companies before...
