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The 2022 Revision of China's Anti-Monopoly Law : Global Antitrust Institute Comments on Draft Provisions of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China Concerning...

Raskovich, Alexander; Ginsburg, Douglas H.; Wright, … - 2023

China's revised Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) went into effect in August 2022. In November, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) requested comments on its draft provisions for applying the AML in civil disputes. The Global Antitrust Institute's comment discusses the importance of the AML's newly expressed...

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Online Platforms and Vertical Integration : The Return of Margin Squeeze?

Bostoen, Friso - 2019

When competition authorities struggle to assess abusive practices by online multi-sided platforms, the issue does not appear to be defining markets or determining market power; rather, the difficulty is finding a fitting theory of abuse. In the search for such theories, one candidate has been...

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Presumptions in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Wright, Joshua D.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; … - 2022

The Global Antitrust Institute (“GAI”) respectfully submits this Comment to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in connection with their Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (“Merger RFI”). This comment addresses the questions...

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Efficiencies in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Raskovich, Alexander; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B. - 2022

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Purpose, Harms, and Scope in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Lipsky, Abbott B.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Raskovich, Alexander - 2022

guidelines is to identify and describe how the agencies assess the legality of mergers. Such guidelines help assure reasonable … and consistent agency review of mergers, and effectively enable businesses to comply with the law. The agencies’ role in … enormous variety of mergers subject to review. Flawed or vague agency standards are likely to discourage procompetitive …

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Monopsony and Labor Markets in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment of the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; Raskovich, Alexander - 2022

, preventing mergers that would likely create the harms generated by the exercise of classical monopsony power should be an … enforcement should continue to use careful fact-based economic analysis to guide both enforcement and policy directed at mergers …

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Potential and Nascent Competition in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment on the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Yun, John M.; Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; … - 2022

This Comment focuses on Section 7: Potential and Nascent Competition of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission's January 18, 2022, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement. Despite information and uncertainty problems with assessing potential and nascent competition, the...

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Competition Law in the Peer-to-Peer Economy

Bostoen, Friso - 2019

The platform economy is subject to increasingly intense competition law enforcement. One part of the platform economy — the peer-to-peer (P2P) economy — has so far largely evaded scrutiny by competition law authorities. As this contribution shows, this is not necessarily because of a...

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Most Favoured Nation Clauses : Towards an Assessment Framework Under EU Competition Law

Bostoen, Friso - 2020

It is often argued that most favoured nation clauses (‘MFNs’) should be assessed on a case-by-case basis given the perceived lack of a coherent theory guiding their assessment. This article asks whether this is the case: do we lack an assessment framework of MFNs under EU competition law? In...

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Assessing Abuse of Dominance in the Platform Economy : A Case Study of App Stores

Bostoen, Friso; Mandrescu, Daniel - 2020

While online platforms are an enforcement priority for European competition authorities, the latter are only now turning their attention to app stores (after having scrutinized, among others, hotel booking websites, search engines and online marketplaces). However, app stores can be...

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