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Master’s thesis: “The New Digital Economy Unit of the French Competition Authority”
To quote this resource: A. BOULANGER, “The New Digital Economy Unit of the French Competition Authority”, Competition Forum –Resources, 2021, n° 0004, https://competition-forum.com. Resume: Who could have imagined, 15 years ago, the changes brought about by digital...
Assessing the Impact of MFNs or PPCs on Competition in Online Marketplaces: An Indian Competition Law Perspective
Summary: This Article performs a competition assessment of Wide and Narrow Platform Parity Clauses (PPCs) imposed on sellers wanting to avail the services of online marketplaces and intermediaries. It analyses judicial decisions from across the globe, examining the...
Amazon under fire for abuse of dominance in antitrust proceedings – Comparative study of different procedures
Resume: On May 25, 2021, the Washington Attorney General Karl Racine opened an antitrust proceeding against the American giant Amazon. This latest case is one of the many that the company is facing, both in its home country and across the Atlantic in Europe. To quote...
Uber and competition law
Resume: Since 2011, the company Uber has been active on the passenger transport market. With it, a new competition appears for a profession that was alone on this market for a long time: taxis. Uber is a new business model, a new vision of entrepreneurship with what...
Time for sustainable EU competition law enforcement
Resume: Market and price mechanisms are not perfect or complete. Instead market actors generate significant negative externalities, but these are clearly not fully reconciled solely by non-antitrust regulation, unlike often argued. Current competition law enforcement...
Competition Policy and Industrial Policy: Towards a new era?
This paper is inspired by the following report: Bruno Deffains, Olivier d’Ormesson, Thomas Perroud, Competition Policy and Industrial Policy: for a reform of European Law, Robert Schuman Foundation, January 2020...
PhD thesis summary: Innovation and competition law
Resume: The thesis “Innovation and competition law” was defended by Marie Cartapanis, in 2017, andpublished by LGDJ. Marie obtained the Institut Universitaire Varenne Prize in Economic Law and the First Prize of Law and Political Science Faculty of Aix-Marseille...
State aid and European public policy objectives
Resume: While the European State aid rules mainly aim at avoiding subsidy races between Member States in the internal market, they have increasingly been used by the European Commission to further its own public policy objectives. The European Court of Justice’s...
Competition Law and Political Influence of Large Corporations – Antitrust Analysis and the Link between Political and Economic Institutions
Resume: Economic policy determines the intensity of competition in markets. This gives incumbents the incentive to use their financial resources to influence policymaking in order to restrict competition and maintain or increase economic profits. Public authorities...
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