Tag: Antitrust
Google Critics Unite To Ask EU’s Vestager For Swift Antitrust Enforcement
A group of 165 companies and industry associations, from the US and UK as well as 21 European Union (EU) countries, sent a letter...
Common Ownership and Minority Shareholding at the Intersection of Competition and...
By Anna Tzanaki (Lund University)
Common ownership is the talk of the town in antitrust land. Surrounded by mystery and noise, the competitive implications of...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed the U.S. Postal Service into a...
By J. Gregory Sidak, Criterion Economics
Years before the widespread use of email and the World Wide Web, Congress directed in the Postal Reorganization Act...
Disney & Fortnite Team Up
Disney+ is partnering with Epic Games’ Fortnite on a free two-month subscription for the popular movie streaming service, according to a post on the...
FTC May Sue Facebook On Antitrust Violations By Thanksgiving
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may have narrowed down the time frame for an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. Politico sources claim the Commission is...
Ex-Employee Asks Ninth Circuit To Revive HP No Poach Claims
A former HP employee has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive allegations that a “no poach” agreement prevented fired employees from finding new work...
Bulgaria OKs Pigments Spain To Buy Ferro Corp
Bulgaria's antitrust regulator said that it has granted approval to colors and glazes producer Pigments Spain to acquire the tile coatings business of US-based...
France’s Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Is Due To Ad Changes...
The most recent antitrust complaint, filed on Oct. 22, requests that Apple suspend the pop-up ad tracking notification until it meets with France’s competition...
The FRAND Defense Up To Huawei/ZTE
By Niccolò Galli (Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
On July 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered its preliminary ruling...
Post-Cartel Tacit Collusion: Determinants, Consequences, and Prevention
By Subhasish M. Chowdhury (University of Bath)
We experimentally investigate the determinants of post-cartel tacit collusion (PCTC), the effects of PCTC on market outcomes, and...
