Tag: Antitrust
Italy: Roberto Rustichelli takes office as president of antitrust agency
Roberto Rustichelli, appointed on December 20 president of the Guarantor Authority for Competition and the Market by the president of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati,...
US: Sanders announces a farmers’ right-to-repair and antitrust proposal
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday, May 5, proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and...
US: FTC delays Roche’s Spark takeover, again
Just days after Roche CEO Severin Schwan said the $4.8 billion buyout of Spark Therapeutics will close by June despite a recent delay, the...
Online Advertising and Antitrust: Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Data as...
In this paper, I discuss some of the traditional sources of market power grounded in economics, and how they apply to online advertising markets....
US: Antitrust division dedicates the Anne K. Bingaman Auditorium
The Antitrust Division was honored to dedicate the Anne K. Bingaman Auditorium and Lecture Hall in the Liberty Square Building in Washington, DC. Anne Bingaman...
The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law
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The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law
By Anu Bradford (Columbia University), Adam S. Chilton (University...
EU: Google promotes rivals to stave off antitrust action
Google is trying to boost price comparison rivals such as Kelkoo in an effort to appease European Union antitrust regulators and ward off fresh...
Competition Law Gone Global: Introducing the Comparative Competition Law and Enforcement...
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Competition Law Gone Global: Introducing the Comparative Competition Law and Enforcement Datasets
By Anu Bradford & Nathaniel Sokol (Columbia University), ...
US: Amazon lifts price parity rule for third-party sellers
Amazon, worried that it could run afoul of antitrust laws, will stop preventing third-party sellers from hawking their products on other websites for a...
EU: Regulator plans big fines against German carmakers
European antitrust authorities plan to fine carmakers Daimler BMW and VW up to 1 billion euros ($1.1 bln) each for colluding on reducing the...
