areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. In 2013–2014 important antitrust decisions (Samsung and Motorola) were … in the area of standard essential patents. In merger control the European Commission carried out an ex-post evaluation of … past mergers in the INEOS/Solvay case in order to obtain valuable insights for the merger under review. In state aid, as a …

legislation. The Portuguese antitrust regulation is inspired by the rules adopted by the European Union, the decisions of the …

The goal of the paper is to investigate the extent of the influence of American antitrust tradition on the foundation … economic theory in the development of antitrust law and policy. My argument may be summarized in four propositions. First, by …’ contribution to the historical evolution of US antitrust law has been smaller than usually believed. Second, as far as the …

This paper analyses empirically the factors that influence the merger decision-making process of the New Zealand … treats merger decision-making as a two-step process, and compare the results with those from applications of the conventional …

intellectual property in the USA, we demonstrate the ease in which legal nuances can deviate well motivated copyright and antitrust … structure creates scope for the strategic manipulation of copyright and antitrust laws by various interest groups. It may also …