Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2019/2020

Liliane Giardino-Karlinger, Dimitrios Magos (), Pierre Régibeau () and Hans Zenger
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Dimitrios Magos: European Commission MADO 17/061
Pierre Régibeau: European Commission MADO 17/026

Review of Industrial Organization, 2020, vol. 57, issue 4, No 4, 783-814

Abstract: Abstract The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and State aid. After providing a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team, this article surveys some of the main developments at the Directorate General for Competition over 2019/2020. In particular, the article reviews the economic analysis in the Qualcomm predation case, recent developments in the assessment of vertical mergers, as well as the new “Temporary Framework” that has been developed in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

Keywords: Competition policy; Antitrust; Mergers; State aid; Predation; Vertical integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-020-09796-6

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