Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

Benno Buehler (), Daniel Coublucq (), Cyril Hariton (), Gregor Langus () and Tommaso Valletti
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Benno Buehler: European Commission
Daniel Coublucq: European Commission
Cyril Hariton: European Commission
Gregor Langus: European Commission

Review of Industrial Organization, 2017, vol. 51, issue 4, No 2, 397-422

Abstract: Abstract The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year’s article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team and surveys the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2016/2017. The article then reviews the economic work undertaken in one merger case between Dow/DuPont, which raised specific issues related to innovation, as well as in an antitrust case on parity clauses related to Amazon e-books.

Keywords: Antitrust; Competition policy; Innovation; Mergers; Most favoured nation clause; State aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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