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Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

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  • Andrea Amelio

    (European Commission)

  • Thomas Buettner

    (European Commission)

  • Cyril Hariton

    (European Commission)

  • Gábor Koltay

    (European Commission)

  • Penelope Papandropoulos

    (European Commission)

  • Geza Sapi

    (European Commission)

  • Tommaso Valletti

    (Imperial College Business School
    European Commission)

  • Hans Zenger

    (European Commission)

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.

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  • Andrea Amelio & Thomas Buettner & Cyril Hariton & Gábor Koltay & Penelope Papandropoulos & Geza Sapi & Tommaso Valletti & Hans Zenger, 2018. "Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 53(4), pages 653-679, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revind:v:53:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s11151-018-9671-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s11151-018-9671-7
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