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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...
Algorithmic Search and Recommendation Systems: The Brightside, the Darkside, and Regulatory Answers
Prof. Dr. Oliver Budzinski is Professor of Economic Theory (Chair) and Director of the Institute of Economics at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. This paper draws on Budzinski (2020) and Budzinski, Gaenssle &Lindstädt-Dreusicke (2021). To quote this...
French justice rules out Carrefour for restrictive competition practices during its commercial negotiations
Summary: On February 22th this year, Carrefour was fined €1.75 million by the Paris Commercial Court for restrictive competition practicesafter 5 years of proceedings.We will come back to a case which is the first legal illustration of the new will of the French...
FinTech sector inquiry: The French Competition Authority issues its opinion
Resume: On April 29, 2021, the French competition authority published its opinion on the sector of new technologies applied to payment activities. Faced with the major changes in the payments sector, the Authority has identified several points of vigilance. To quote...
Online Seminar: Regulation of digital platforms in Europe: towards fair and open digital markets?
On 28 April, the Centre de droit économique of Aix-Marseille University was pleased to welcome Professor Podszun from the University of Dusseldorf. His speech, which aimed to present the European reforms concerning the regulation of gatekeeper platforms (Digital...
The French Apple competition & privacy case
To quote this paper: V. Giovannini, “The french Apple competition & privacy case”, Competition Forum, 2021, n°0018, https://competition-forum.com. Competition law & privacy. This may not be a decision on the merits, but it is already rich in lessons. In...
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