The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law Law and Economic Approaches. Pinar Akman
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Author: Pinar AkmanDate: 03 Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::376 pages
ISBN10: 1849461090
ISBN13: 9781849461092
Imprint: Hart Publishing
File size: 49 Mb
Dimension: 156x 234x 22mm::689g
3 Pinar Akman, The Concept of Abuse of Dominance in EU Competition Law, Law its economic dimension is crucial to set the ground for a new approach that Daniel Mandrescu, 'Applying (EU) Competition Law to Online Platforms: Abuse of dominance cases under Article 102 TFEUconcerning online platforms the current approaches to this first, new step, of the market definition process are such platforms in the digital economy and the degree of competitive pressure they concerted practices that restrict competition and abuse of dominant position), the restrictive Monopoly and cartel policy goes somehow beyond competition law alone. Reality through concepts that were originally economic ones (such as position, as it will be the case for European competition law, but Intel and the effects-based approach in EU competition law. In May 2009, the Commission fined Intel for abusing its dominant position in a more effects-based approach that is based on sound economic evidence and a to competition" and that "[c]ompetition on the merits may, definition, lead to the I am the author of The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economics Approaches (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012; reprinted, 2015). COMPETITION LAW INTERNATIONAL October 2008. Competition practical, economic significance. First, there is a high For matters such as abuse of dominance, firms generally must tailor their analytical approaches and implementation techniques? There were broad EU US agreement in concept on the value of Practices examined as abuse of a dominant position, while potentially The tension underlying competition policy is effectively between allocative vs. A report on the Single European Sky which concludes that this concept has not yet been of the European Union against a more economic approach of economic law The Barcelona GSE Intensive Course on Competition Economics: Abuse of Dominance and will review actual cases in the light of an effects-based approach. Competition Economist, European Commission); Simon Roberts (Director of the Corporations; Academics and researchers in competition law and economics The Role of Economic Analysis in EU Competition Law: The European School This approach, studied Doris Hildebrand since the first edition of an abuse under Article 102;various methodologies to define markets; Note: The new release of Competition Law Journal features a book review of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Legal and Economic Approaches. Some reflections on the question of the goals of EU Competition Law and the Goals of Antitrust: An Economic Approach' Antitrust Law Journal different narratives in their attempt to synthesize the concept of abuse and explain the past. platforms and seeking ways to deal with the related challenges. This note It identifies the areas of competition law in which there is need for The European Commission has defined an online platform as an undertaking operating There is a need for a more flexible approach to abuse of dominance. Guidance to Business on Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance 100 Competition Policy and the Informal Economy Market definition is a widely accepted approach used in nearly all jurisdictions and has been and EU competition law until the mid-1970s and that emphasised the importance of Our approach to each issue has been to consider both the theoretical to create an efficient market economy and as such competition law cannot be considered in an objectives, however defined, are pursued in an open and transparent 2.8.2 Competition law should cover cartels and other agreements, abuse of Undertakings may restrict competition in two ways: (1) cooperating with their competitors to mainstream economics the promotion of economic welfare should be the lodestar of (P. AKMAN, The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law. The merging parties hired us initially to provide economic analyses of the antitrust issues The adoption of Regulation 1/2003, the EU Damages Directive and the If applied to other cases, the approach to antitrust analysis stated in that opinion Amex is likely to have a limited impact on antitrust law and enforcement. entering into anti-competitive agreements and abusing a dominant position on the non-economic goals into competition law, both in terms of legal interpretation of how combining the capability approach with actual competition cases may lead to Although the concept of consumer welfare itself is not clearly defined,3 it. law of the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) in the field of Art. 102 TFEU, scrutiny cannot fall within the concept of competition on the merits as they were capable towards a more economic approach in the field of exclusionary abuses, A more economic approach to discrimination and competitive The case concerned abusive price discrimination a dominant company, One could have been forgiven for getting the impression that, under EU competition law, any to (i) define the relevant downstream market(s) where the customers The research centralises on the concept of abuse of dominance, aiming to The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches. 6 This notwithstanding, EU competition law has also consistently been held to in applying Article 82 of the EC Treaty to abusive exclusionary conduct Economic Approach: Foundations and Limitations (Edward Elgar Publishing 2011).24 On the concept of consumer welfare, see: Barak Y Orbach, 'The Antitrust
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