This chapter discusses the FTC's court challenge, in 2001, to the proposed merger of two baby food producers, Heinz and Beech-Nut. The chapter describes the economic issues at stake in the litigation, with a particular focus on the possibility that efficiencies could justify a merger in an...

Spanish Abstract:</B> La exigencia de independencia de las autoridades administrativas de defensa de la competencia existentes en nuestro país (CNMC y autoridades autonómicas) se materializa en una regulación de su estructura, organización y funcionamiento sembrada de cautelas destinadas a...

Spanish Abstract: En ocasiones las conductas anticompetitivas de los operadores en el mercado vienen precedidas o acompañadas de intervenciones de los poderes públicos que las incitan, promueven o patrocinan. En otros casos las restricciones de la competencia se derivan directamente de una...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo pasa revista a la aplicación de las prohibiciones de conductas anticompetitivas en España en los últimos años. Tras un breve recorrido por la aplicación administrativa de las normas de defensa de la competencia desarrollada por la Comisión Nacional de los...

Digital platforms operate in multisided markets providing services through the internet to two or more distinct groups of users, between which there are indirect network effects. Direct network effects are frequently present within each group. Therefore, online platforms usually present both...

This article revisits the antitrust treatment of unilateral conduct in Standard Essential Patent (SEP) disputes in EU, with particular focus on the landmark CJEU judgment in Huawei v ZTE and the way it has affected subsequent developments before national courts. It illustrates that while the...

The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines (Guidelines) advance the use of the Gross Upward Pricing Pressure Index (GUPPI) for analyzing unilateral effects of mergers in differentiated-products industries. However, the Guidelines do not quantify a GUPPI safe harbor threshold, whereas the Guidelines...