Recent developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018
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Type
Journal Article
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.
Date Issued
2018-12-01
Date Acceptance
2018-10-22
Citation
Review of Industrial Organization, 2018, 53 (4), pp.653-679
ISSN
0889-938X
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
653
End Page
679
Journal / Book Title
Review of Industrial Organization
Volume
53
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Subjects
Social Sciences
Economics
Management
Business & Economics
Competition policy
Antitrust
Mergers
State aid
Counterfactual
Google
Price discrimination
1402 Applied Economics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-11-01