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Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year’s article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team and surveys the main achievements of...

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Autores principales: Buehler, Benno, Coublucq, Daniel, Hariton, Cyril, Langus, Gregor, Valletti, Tommaso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29187775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11151-017-9592-x
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Sumario:The Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission enforces competition law in the areas of antitrust, merger control, and state aids. This year’s article provides first a general presentation of the role of the Chief Competition Economist’s team and surveys the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2016/2017. The article then reviews the economic work undertaken in one merger case between Dow/DuPont, which raised specific issues related to innovation, as well as in an antitrust case on parity clauses related to Amazon e-books.