Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The Untold EpiPen Story: How Mylan Hiked Prices by Blocking Rivals

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here.

Cartel Detection: Introducing the V-023

ACM, Video here

Data Control – monopoly or individual control

Videos here

5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2: Lessons to be learned?

RBB Economics, here.

The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here.

UK watchdog drops plans for review of Big Data use by insurers

Reuters, here

Amazon’s algorithms are misleading customers and causing them to spend way more than they should

Qz.com, here.

Desorden judicial en defensa de la competencia

F. Marcos, aquì.

Personalisierte Preise

Vzbv, hier.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.

ProPublica, here

Consolidation and Competition in the U.S. Seed and Agrochemical Industry

US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, written testimonies here.

U.S. – E.U. Convergence: Can We Bridge the Atlantic?

M. Ohlhausen, here

Competition as Fair Process – the shared language of popular and expert antitrust

R. Hesse, here

Federalberghi: Booking "vìola palesemente le regole"

Corrierecomunicazioni.it, qui.

Competition for a Fairer Society

M. Vestager, here.

"Here in the United States, the Council of Economic Advisors has warned about the risks of markets that are increasingly dominated by a few large companies".

Commissioner Vestager on Recode Decode

Podcast, here.



Monopolkommission: Hauptgutachten XXI - Wettbewerb 2016

Hier.

Zentralvermarktung in der Fußball-Bundesliga S. 80 ff.
Digitale Märkte: Sharing Economy und FinTechs S. 363 ff.

Libre installation des notaires

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Google Steps Up Travel Presence With Trip-Planning App

Bloomberg, here

Monopolkommission: Airbnb und Fintechs nicht überregulieren

FAZ, hier

Commission fines ARA €6 million for hindering competition on Austrian waste management market

EC, here

Monday, September 19, 2016

Daten ohne Schutz: WhatsApp überschreitet rote Linie

vzbv, hier

Bundeskartellamt hat keine Einwände gegen App-basiertes Girokonto der Sparkassen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

"Die gemeinsame Vereinbarung der Sparkassen darüber, die Basisversion des App-Kontos kostenlos anzubieten, könnte eine wettbewerbsbeschränkende Vereinbarung darstellen...Im Rahmen seines Aufgreifermessens hat das Bundeskartellamt entschieden, kein Verfahren gegen die teilnehmenden Sparkassen einzuleiten. Das gemeinsame Vorgehen der Sparkassen erscheint in diesem Fall gerechtfertigt, da so insbesondere auch kleinere Institute die Möglichkeit haben, über die App Neukunden zu gewinnen. Darüber hinaus erscheint es in dem derzeitigen Marktumfeld unumgänglich, die Basisversion eines App-Kontos kostenfrei anzubieten, so dass die Vereinbarung – wenn überhaupt – den Wettbewerb nur geringfügig beschränkt."

Salesforce Einstein delivers artificial intelligence across the Salesforce platform

TechCrunch, here

More on Lundbeck v Commission: some comments on the comments #ourreadersask

P. Ibanez Colomo, here

Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics

TheGuardian, here.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Japan report finds Apple, Google hinder app sales competition

Nikkei, here

Grenzüberschreitende Nutzung von digitalen Inhalten erleichtern

vzbv, hier

La blockchain dans les industries créatives : peut-on accroître la transparence tout en préservant la vie privée des utilisateurs ?

LINC, ici

Opérations de visite et saisie inopinées dans le secteur de la fabrication et la distribution des sandwichs

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Experiments in Intellectual Property

C. Buccafusco, C. Sprigman, here.

"Inventing a new pharmaceutical or producing a movie takes years of intellectual effort. The creativity that researchers can study in the laboratory, however, may involve minutes or even seconds".

General Court’s pay for delay judgment in Lundbeck – some guidance, but worries remain

S. Gallasch, here

Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications

S. Athey, Video here

The Commission’s proposed TDM exception: Who’s to benefit?

M. Caspers, here

Data Ownership and Access to Data

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Position Statement, here

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People: Implementation Guidance

The White House, here.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

EU court confirms Thomson Reuters coding settlement

...Reuters, here.

T-76/14, here.

An Antitrust Review of a Bayer-Monsanto Merger

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here.

FTC Approves Final Order Preserving Competition in Markets for 79 Pharmaceutical Products

FTC, here.

Fusion hängt von Bayers Bereitschaft zu Zugeständnissen ab

WiWo, hier

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People

The White House, Executive Order, here.
Also "White House Summit on Behavioral Science Insights", here (live soon)

Anti-Surge Pricing


UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Issues “Landmark” Report

IP-watch, here.

Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines

New EU Telco Rules

Arstechnica, here.

Competition and the Digital Single Market

M. Vestager, here.

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Preliminary Report

Press Release, here. Fact sheet here. Preliminary Report here.

Digital content:
- "the information provided during the sector inquiry... shows that multiple business models and a great diversity of licensing practices are available and indeed used, which can cater for the needs of both right holders and digital content providers";
-"Little substantive evidence was provided on the importance of pre-sale arrangements to fund new products by respondents, in relation to the products included in the sector inquiry."

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Second Batch of Results

EC press conference by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, 15 September 16.30h, here (not live bc of satellite technical problems...).

"If it is agreements between companies that are restricting e-commerce across Europe’s national borders, then you can expect competition enforcement to follow", speech11.09.2015.

My personal "highlights" (from today's press conference):

- investigation into online video games and geo-blocking still ongoing;
- E-commerce sector inquiry and pay-tv case "very, very distant relatives": former much broader (more "generic"), considering also consumer goods where there are ("obviously") the same restrictions but many more (I´d add that, with regard to digital content, restrictions in the licensing agreements well beyond geo-blocking have been identified by the EC);
- E-commerce sector inquiry as a source of information for the legislator (possibly, copyright - and geo-blocking regulation).

Bookatable-Reaktion auf Kartellrechtsbeschwerde

Ahgz.de, hier.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016