Comments regarding the new perspective and understanding that economic analysis of law (exemplary portrayed by the book of Easterbrook & Fischel) provides of traditional corporate legal issues and problems

Several relevant issues concerning information in the market for dental (and other health care) services are analyzed when commenting the Spanish Competition Court Resolution of 5 October 2001 (477/1999, Odontólogos Córdoba) which condemned the local professional dentists' association for an...

In reflecting on the peculiar legal features of American Depositary Shares, this paper considers the hypothesis of insolvency of some of the relevant parties in the contractual scheme in order to extract the legal implications (both contractual and otherwise) arising from the use of ADRs as a...

This paper analyzes the evolution of Competition law and policy in the recent new Member States of the European Union. Institutions and rules were established in these countries throughout the nineties and there is already some experience about their enforcement, with relevant implications for...

This paper studies the use of merger review as a shield to obstacle hostile tender offers of a company. Commenting on the transaction Oracle/PeopleSoft (2004) it reflects on the significance and risks of the antitrust authorities' analysis of M&A. The correct definition of the relevant market...

This article analyzes the features of debt and late payment registries as an instrument of information exchange among companies from the perspective of antitrust laws. Since 1992 the Spanish Competition Tribunal has issued more than 300 resolutions dealing with the business agreements to share...

Insurance companies and insurance activities are subject to profuse industry regulation, justified by potential market failures, but this does not exclude the applicability to them of Competition Law. Nevertheless, almost all legal systems worldwide foresee, one way or another, significant...

This article reviews the origins, evolution and legal discipline of U.S. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as a way of comparative contextualization of the new real state market investment listed corporations, set up by Act 1/2009, of October 26

The market unity principle is an amphibological creation of the Constitutional Court to strengthen the prohibition of certain exorbitant interventions by the regions. This paper criticizes the existence and use of such an euphemistic reinforcement, which contradicts the latent preference for...

Inherent Defects Insurance (IDI) for new housing buildings is mandatory in Spain since 2000. The instauration of this legal requirement prompted an upsurge in the IDI market in the following years. Being confronted with competition, major insurance carriers active in that market promoted a...