Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

Amelio, Andrea; Buettner, Thomas; Hariton, Cyril; Koltay, Gabor; Papandropoulos, Penelope; Sapi, Geza; Valletti, Tommaso M.; Zenger, Hans

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Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 653-679, 2018

27 Pages Posted: 14 Nov 2018 Last revised: 27 Nov 2018

See all articles by Andrea Amelio

Andrea Amelio

European Union - Directorate General for Competition

Gabor Koltay

European Union - Directorate General for Competition

Penelope Papandropoulos

European Union - Directorate General for Competition

Geza Sapi

European Commission, DG Competition, Chief Economist's Team; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Tommaso M. Valletti

Imperial College Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Hans Zenger

European Union - Directorate General for Competition

Date Written: November 1, 2018

Abstract

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 some of the main achievements of the Directorate General for Competition over 2017/2018. The article then reviews: the Google Search (Shopping) case, the role of price discrimination in state aid cases; and the use of counterfactuals in merger cases where alternative transactions might have occurred absent the merger.

Keywords: Competition Policy, Antitrust, Mergers, State Aid, Counterfactual, Google, Price Discrimination

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Amelio, Andrea and Buettner, Thomas and Hariton, Cyril and Koltay, Gabor and Papandropoulos, Penelope and Sapi, Geza and Valletti, Tommaso M. and Zenger, Hans, Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018 (November 1, 2018). Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 653-679, 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3283319