The pro-active stance taken by the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) on the application of competition rules to the rail sector was instrumental in ensuring the effectiveness of liberalization measures. In particular, the ICA relied on commitment decisions to close investigations against the...

This paper contains my contribution to the panel "Competition authorities: Towards more independence and prioritisation?" at the 8th International Concurrences Review Conference "New Frontiers of Antitrust" (Paris, 26 June 2017). It focuses in particular on the European Commission's 'ECN'...

Distribution cartels in the automotive sector used to be frequently dismantled and sanctioned by the European Commission and the EU Courts still some 15 years ago. In recent years, however, only a few cases have been reported at the national level of EU Member States. Is it because the...

Mergers may lead to certain competitive harms that are prohibited by virtually every merger control regime in the world. To avoid the outright prohibition of a transaction that is expected to both raise several competition concerns and create pro-competitive efficiencies, the transaction may be...

We study information transmission between informed experts and an uninformed decision-maker who only takes binary decisions. In the single expert case, we show that information transmission can only be relatively poor. Hence, even sophiscated communication games do not yield equilibria which (ex...

This paper aims to shed light on the economic tools, as well as the legal-economic reasoning, which are used by different European antitrust authorities to assess the allegedly anticompetitive practices of a platform operating in a two-sided market (2SM). First of all, we show that despite the...