Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of February 2019. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. General antitrust: Private Enforcement (CPI) Europe Needs Competition More Than Industrial Giants (Bloomberg Editorial Board) Mergers: Commission prohibits Siemens’ proposed acquisition of Alstom (European Commission) This is not a post on Siemens/Alstom – Congratulations to DG...Read More

Dear all, I am very happy to announce that my first book is now available for sale – now in paperback and digital version. Entitled “Predatory innovation in antitrust law », it deals with predatory innovation (surprising, isn’t it ;), but also with competition on digital markets. In fact, this book is intended to all academics, lawyers,...Read More

The Bundeskartellamt issued its long-awaited decision on Facebook’s data collection practices today, and it’s something of a mixed bag. Facebook quickly issued a response on its blog, unsurprisingly taking issue with the German competition authority’s findings. Below are a few initial reactions. The Good: A flexible approach to market definition works better than the SSNIP...Read More

Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of January 2019. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it. General antitrust: Behavioral Antitrust (CPI) Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind? (Simonetta Vezzoso) Statement of Commissioner Christine S. Wilson In the Matter of Staples/Essendant (Christine S. Wilson) Harold Demsetz and the Legacy of the...Read More

It is said that data is the new oil; that competition is (partially) dead because big data creates barriers to entry to the digital markets, preventing companies from effectively competing with tech giants. As a result, it has been proposed that the very nature of the dominant positions in the digital markets is fundamentally different...Read More

Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of December 2018. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it. General antitrust: Reinvigorating Criminal Antitrust? (Daniel Sokol) The Omega Man or The Isolation of U.S. Antitrust Law (Spencer Weber Waller) ‘The Curse of Bigness’ Review: Revisiting the Gilded Age (Richard A. Epstein) All contributions to the European Commission “Shaping...Read More

Antitrust hipsters – or Neo-Brandeisians, as self-proclaimed – have been playing on fears (“be very afraid,” OK?) for the past two years or so. Tech giants would be real monsters endangering democracy, explaining why they “lead the effort to protect democratic institutions and the liberties of citizens from concentrated corporate power and develop solutions to America’s monopoly crisis.” The...Read More

Dear readers, Here is the second article in our series “The Very Best Of” following a first installment about The Antitrust Religion (link). As a quick reminder, this new series aims at taking the “best” extracts from books dealing with competition law so to present them in the words of the author. Written by Eric...Read More

Please find below the links that I enjoyed during the month September 2018. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it. In no particular order: High Time for Rhyme and Reason (Philip Marsden) Requiem for a Paradox: The Dubious Rise and Inevitable Fall of Hipster Antitrust (Joshua D. Wright, Elyse Dorsey, Jan Rybnicek, Jonathan Klick) The Misguided Assault on...Read More

Dear all, I am very happy to announce that my first book is now available for sale. Entitled “Predatory innovation in antitrust law », it deals with predatory innovation (surprising, isn’t it ;), but also with competition on digital markets. In fact, this book is intended to all academics, lawyers, practitioners, judges, public authorities, business leaders...Read More