The “Acceptable” Cartel? Horizontal Agreements Within EU Competition Law: Introduction

Position Paper on the Revised rules for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements under EU competition law

Cerna, Mines ParisTech is a research centre in Industrial Economics. Over the last years, Cerna has carried through various research programs on the interplay between technological standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Building upon this experience, we wish to comment on those parts of the proposed guidelines for applying European Competition Law to Horizontal Cooperation agreements...

Vertical and horizontal integration in the media sector and EU competition law

the relevance of competition law to industrial property agreements

at a superficial level it seems that owning a monopolistic right is in contrast with competitiveness of the market, and exercising this right will prevent the free trade from being competitive. but the truth is that the existence of monopoly is not always a violation of competition law to be harmful to the trade, quite the reverse, in some cases it interacts with principles of competition law, ...

Competition Policy and Efficiency Claims in Horizontal Agreements

Efficiency claims play a key role in the analysis of mergers and horizontal agreements. Static efficiencies, associated with the production and distribution of existing products, are most often considered relevant. Dynamic efficiencies, of improved processes and products, are also important, but they are inherently more difficult to estimate. Efficiencies tend to play a larger role in analysis ...

Which acceptable agreements are equilibria?

This paper proposes a one shot normal form game of agreement formation. It introduces a new notion of strategy, which is, for each player, to say which of the possible agreements are acceptable. Therefore, the strategy is a vector of choices. For a given strategy profile, different sizes are then acceptable and it is assumed that the largest agreement is achieved. I propose a concept of strong ...