Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

Andrea Amelio (), Thomas Buettner (), Cyril Hariton (), Gabor Koltay, Penelope Papandropoulos (), Geza Sapi (), Tommaso Valletti and Hans Zenger
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Andrea Amelio: European Commission
Thomas Buettner: European Commission
Cyril Hariton: European Commission
Penelope Papandropoulos: European Commission

Review of Industrial Organization, 2018, vol. 53, issue 4, No 5, 653-679

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 some of the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2017/2018. The article then reviews: the Google Search (Shopping) case, the role of price discrimination in state aid cases; and the use of counterfactuals in merger cases where alternative transactions might have occurred absent the merger.

Keywords: Competition policy; Antitrust; Mergers; State aid; Counterfactual; Google; Price discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-018-9671-7

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