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Calculating Cartel Damages 计算卡特尔损害赔偿
Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3908038
C. Veljanovski
This chapter sets out the principles and emerging practice governing cartel damages in the EU and UK. It identifies the types of damages available; the issue surrounding causation, pass-on, volume effects, and mitigation; and the methods that have been be used to estimate overcharges, volume effects, and duration of a cartel. A version of the chapter is to appear in Research Handbook on Cartels, Peter Whelan, ed., Edward Elgar.
本章阐述了欧盟和英国卡特尔损害赔偿的原则和新兴实践。它确定了可获得的损害赔偿类型;围绕因果关系、传递、体积效应和缓解的问题;以及用来估计超额收费、数量效应和卡特尔持续时间的方法。本章的一个版本将出现在研究手册上的卡特尔,彼得惠兰,编辑,爱德华埃尔加。
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Data Collaboratives, Competition Law and the Governance of EU Data Spaces 数据协作、竞争法和欧盟数据空间治理
Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3897051
N. Zingales
An increasing number of studies have suggested the imposition of data access and data sharing obligations for online platforms or gatekeepers. Some of these obligations have been included in the proposed Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, which either presuppose or encourage the creation of repositories of information accessible to qualified actors. In parallel, the European Commission is promoting for strategic economic sectors and domains of public interest the concept of common European data spaces, defined as “large pools of data in these sectors and domains, combined with the technical tools and infrastructures necessary to use and exchange data, as well as appropriate governance mechanisms”. However, we are yet to know the rules, procedures and institutional safeguards applicable to these data sharing mechanisms, which are undoubtedly crucial when it comes to determining their legality under competition law. This chapter sketches the challenges involved in this determination for a wide range of collaborations revolving around data access and data sharing, which we call “data collaboratives”.
越来越多的研究建议对在线平台或看门人施加数据访问和数据共享义务。其中一些义务已列入拟议的《数字市场法》和《数字服务法》,这两项法案要么预先假定,要么鼓励创建合格行为者可以访问的信息库。与此同时,欧盟委员会正在促进战略经济部门和公共利益领域的共同欧洲数据空间概念,其定义为“这些部门和领域的大量数据,结合使用和交换数据所需的技术工具和基础设施,以及适当的治理机制”。然而,我们还不知道适用于这些数据共享机制的规则、程序和制度保障,这些在确定其在竞争法下的合法性时无疑是至关重要的。本章概述了围绕数据访问和数据共享的广泛合作所涉及的挑战,我们称之为“数据协作”。
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The Effectiveness of European Antitrust Fines 欧洲反垄断罚款的有效性
Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3730361
C. Veljanovski
This paper examines the effectiveness of the administrative fines imposed by the European Commission on cartels from an economic perspective. It reviews the theory, practice, and evidence of optimal fines and assesses whether the European Commission fines, leniency, and settlement procedures deter and otherwise affect the actions of cartels.
本文从经济学的角度考察了欧盟委员会对卡特尔实施行政罚款的有效性。它回顾了最佳罚款的理论、实践和证据,并评估了欧盟委员会的罚款、宽大处理和和解程序是否会阻止或影响卡特尔的行为。
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Unfair Pricing and Standard Essential Patents 不公平定价与标准必要专利
Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3708003
M. Botta
Technical standards that are agreed within a Standard Development Organization (SDO) often cover several ‘essential’ patents for the implementation of a standard (i.e., Standard Essential Patents, SEPs). In order to allow for the standard implementation, the SEP holder commits to license its patents to any potential licensee on the basis of Fair and Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) conditions. In view of the recent ruling of the UK Supreme Court in Unwired Planet and the judgement of the German Bundesgerichtshof in Sisvel v. Haier, the paper assumes that the FRAND commitment implies a ‘range’ rather than a ‘single’ royalty rate. On the other hand, a royalty rate ‘beyond the outer boundary of the range’ should be considered ‘unfair’, and thus incompatible with the FRAND commitment. Besides representing a breach of the FRAND commitment, an ‘unfair’ royalty rate might also be considered an abuse of a dominant position by the SEP holder, in breach of Art. 102(a) TFEU. This paper analyses whether, and under what circumstances, Art. 102(a) TFEU can be relied upon by a competition authority in Europe to sanction a case where an ‘unfair’ royalty rate has been set by the SEP holder. To this regard, the paper provides a detailed analysis of the EU Court of Justice’s jurisprudence on Art. 102(a) TFEU. In particular, the latter jurisprudence is relied as a ‘yardstick’ to assess ‘when’ competition policy should sanction a request of unfair royalty rate by the SEP holder, ‘how’ a competition agency should assess the case and, eventually, ‘what’ remedies the competition authority might adopt. Economists have elaborated a number of ‘filters’ to define ‘when’ EU competition policy should sanction unfair pricing cases. In particular, antitrust intervention would be justified only in markets that are characterized by high and stable entry barriers, in which a firm enjoys a super-dominant position. Due to the phenomenon of over-declaration, not every SEP is indeed ‘essential’; the market power of the SEP holder thus requires a case-by-case analysis of the ‘essentiality’ of every SEP. A number of authors have also argued that excessive pricing cases should not be sanctioned in industries characterized by dynamic efficiencies. The paper argues that innovation considerations could be considered as efficiency defences in the context of antitrust investigations, rather than in excluding a priori competition policy enforcement in this field. The paper argues that a competition agency should rely on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Art. 102(a) TFEU to analyse a case of unfair royalty rate. In particular, United Brands cost/price test is not suitable for assessing an unfair royalty rate requested by the SEP holder, since it is de facto impossible to determine the ‘costs of production’ of individual SEPs. On the other hand, in accordance with the CJEU case law, the competition agency might rely on a number of benchmark metho
在标准开发组织(SDO)内达成一致的技术标准通常涵盖实现标准的几个“必要”专利(即标准必要专利,sep)。为了允许标准的实施,SEP持有人承诺在公平合理和非歧视(FRAND)条件的基础上将其专利许可给任何潜在的被许可人。鉴于最近英国最高法院对Unwired Planet的裁决以及德国联邦法院对Sisvel诉海尔案的判决,本文假设FRAND承诺意味着一个“范围”而不是一个“单一”的版税费率。另一方面,“超出范围外边界”的特许权使用费应被视为“不公平”,因此与FRAND承诺不相容。除了代表违反FRAND承诺外,“不公平”的特许权使用费费率也可能被视为SEP持有人滥用主导地位,违反了第102(a)条TFEU。本文分析了欧洲竞争管理机构是否以及在何种情况下可以依据第102(a)条TFEU对SEP持有人设定的“不公平”特许权使用费费率进行制裁。在这方面,本文对欧盟法院对第102(a)条TFEU的判例进行了详细分析。特别是,后者的判例被视为评估竞争政策“何时”应批准SEP持有人提出的不公平特许权使用费要求的“尺度”,竞争机构应“如何”评估案件,以及最终竞争机构可能采取的“何种”补救措施。经济学家已经详细阐述了一些“过滤器”,以定义欧盟竞争政策“何时”应该制裁不公平定价案件。特别是,反垄断干预只有在以高而稳定的进入壁垒为特征的市场中才是合理的,在这种市场中,企业享有超级支配地位。由于过度申报的现象,并非每个SEP都是“必要的”;因此,SEP持有人的市场力量要求对每个SEP的“必要性”进行逐案分析。一些作者还认为,在以动态效率为特征的行业中,不应该批准过度定价的案例。本文认为,在反垄断调查的背景下,创新考虑可以被视为效率抗辩,而不是排除该领域的先验竞争政策执行。本文认为,竞争机构应依据欧盟法院(CJEU)第102(a)条TFEU的判例法来分析不公平版税率的案件。特别是,联合品牌的成本/价格测试不适合评估SEP持有人所要求的不公平的专利使用费率,因为事实上不可能确定单个SEP的“生产成本”。另一方面,根据欧洲法院的判例法,竞争机构可以依靠一些基准方法来评估所谓的费率不公平。特别是,该机构应在多个基准测试下核实其调查结果,以尽量减少假阴性错误的风险。最后,SEP持有人可以辩称,其过去的研发投资证明了所要求的专利使用费是合理的。在救济方面,本文认为,竞争机构可以要求SEP持有人许可其“必要”专利;这种行为救济在欧盟委员会的实践中已经确立。鉴于最近的博通临时决定,如果竞争管理机构对其不公平定价的初步调查结果有信心,该机构可能会要求SEP持有人通过临时决定许可其“必要”专利;这种义务的范围、期限和确切义务将在以后的最后承付决定中加以细化。
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A Reform Too Few or a Reform Too Many: Judicial Review, Appeals or a Prosecutorial System under the UK Competition Act 1998? 改革太少还是改革太多:1998年《英国竞争法》下的司法审查、上诉或检察制度?
Pub Date : 2020-02-25 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3544305
Renato Nazzini
This article discusses the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) proposals to lower the standard of review of certain antitrust decisions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) from a merits appeal to judicial review principles or some other limited basis, while retaining the CAT’s ‘full jurisdiction’ over fines, and to amend the CAT’s rules of procedure to restrict the admissibility of new evidence on appeal and the use of oral testimony. The argument developed in this article is that such proposals are: (i) in conflict with the constitutional principle of the rule of law; (ii) incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA98); (iii) a step back even from the often criticized standard of review applied by the Union Courts in respect of European Commission’s decisions; (iv) inappropriate as a matter of policy. If the current regime needs improving to reduce the cost and length of the proceedings, then three options should be considered: (i) moving from a merits appeal to a merits review (Option 1); (ii) strengthening the independence of the decision-making panel within the CMA (Option 2), while lowering the standard of review to judicial review principles; (iii) establishing a prosecutorial model (Option 3). Option 3 is the most radical but should be given serious consideration as it is likely to be the best suited to achieving the policy objective of reducing the cost and length of competition proceedings while at the same time retaining rigorous scrutiny of the facts and economic evidence, which is key to ensuring not only the fairness, and therefore the legitimacy, of the system, but also its effectiveness.
本文讨论了竞争和市场管理局(CMA)的建议,即降低竞争上诉法庭(CAT)对某些反垄断决定的审查标准,从案情上诉到司法审查原则或其他一些有限的基础,同时保留CAT对罚款的“完全管辖权”,并修改CAT的程序规则,以限制上诉中新证据的可采性和口头证词的使用。本文提出的论点是,这些建议:(i)与法治的宪法原则相冲突;(ii)不符合《1998年人权法》(HRA98);(iii)甚至从欧盟法院对欧盟委员会的决定所采用的经常受到批评的审查标准后退一步;(iv)政策上不适当的。如果现行制度需要改善,以减少诉讼的成本和时间,则应考虑以下三种选择:(i)由案情上诉转为案情覆核(方案一);(ii)加强CMA内部决策小组的独立性(方案2),同时将审查标准降低到司法审查原则;(iii)建立检控模式(方案3)。方案3是最激进的,但应予以认真考虑,因为它可能是最适合实现减少竞争诉讼的成本和时间的政策目标,同时保持对事实和经济证据的严格审查,这不仅是确保公平的关键,因此,该制度的合法性,而且其有效性。
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Swedish Competition Authority's Proposed Market Study of Digital Platforms, Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University 瑞典竞争管理局关于数字平台的市场研究建议,乔治梅森大学Antonin Scalia法学院全球反垄断研究所评论
Pub Date : 2019-11-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3496810
Tad Lipsky, Joshua D. Wright, D. Ginsburg, John M. Yun
This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University to the Swedish Competition Authority regarding its proposed market study of digital platforms. The GAI Competition Advocacy Program provides a wide range of recommendations to facilitate adoption of economically sound competition policies.
乔治梅森大学安东宁·斯卡利亚法学院的全球反垄断研究所(GAI)就其拟议的数字平台市场研究向瑞典竞争管理局提交了这一评论。GAI竞争倡导计划提供了广泛的建议,以促进采用经济上合理的竞争政策。
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Screening Methods for the Detection of Antitrust Infringements 反垄断侵权行为检测的筛选方法
Pub Date : 2019-10-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3501700
H. Beth, Thilo Reimers
Digitization, legal tech and legal design thinking are increasingly shaping the daily workings of legal departments. The following article examines the extent to which related methods - such as quantitative cartel screening tools - can be used to detect antitrust infringements of suppliers.
数字化、法律技术和法律设计思维正日益影响着法律部门的日常工作。以下文章将探讨相关方法(如定量卡特尔筛选工具)可用于检测供应商的反垄断侵权行为的程度。
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages 粒度搜索、市场结构和工资
Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.3386/w26239
Gregor Jarosch, J. Nimczik, Isaac Sorkin
We build a model where firm size is a source of labor market power. The key mechanism is that a granular employer can eliminate its own vacancies from a worker's outside option in the wage bargain. Hence, a granular employer does not compete with itself. We show how wages depend on employment concentration and then use the model to quantify the effects of granular market power. In Austrian micro-data, we find that granular market power depresses wages by about ten percent and can explain 40 percent of the observed decline in the labor share from 1997 to 2015. Mergers decrease competition for workers and reduce wages even at non-merging firms.
我们建立了一个模型,其中公司规模是劳动力市场力量的一个来源。关键的机制是,细粒度雇主可以在工资谈判中从工人的外部选择中消除自己的空缺。因此,细粒度雇主不会与自己竞争。我们展示了工资如何依赖于就业集中度,然后使用模型来量化颗粒市场力量的影响。在奥地利的微观数据中,我们发现,细粒度的市场力量压低了工资约10%,可以解释1997年至2015年观察到的劳动收入占比下降的40%。合并减少了对工人的竞争,甚至在未合并的公司也降低了工资。
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引用次数: 65
Effective Public Enforcement of Cartels: Rates of Challenged and Annulled Cartel Fines in Ten European Member States 对卡特尔的有效公共执法:在十个欧洲成员国中被质疑和被撤销的卡特尔罚款比率
Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3401260
A. Outhuijse
A substantial number of cartels in the European Union are detected and enforced by the national competition authorities (NCAs). The effectiveness of the domestic enforcement has been subject to extensive review and debates, which have recently culminated and resulted in the proposal for the ECN Directive. The current discussions are mostly limited to the number of enforcement activities, the quantity of imposed fines and their height and deterrence. An empirical assessment of the court procedures in which those fines were challenged and the consequences thereof received minimal attention, despite its importance. The Dutch example, more in particular the difference between the fines as issued by the NCA and those remaining after court review, shows that the mere reference to the number of cases sanctioned paints a distorted picture and an analysis of the rates of litigation and successful litigation is indispensable for veraciously assessing the NCA’s effectiveness. In light thereof, this article analyses the frequency of (successful) litigation and the reasons for annulments in cases of cartel fines in ten Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom). Public policy makers, such as the European Commission, could benefit from this data gathered in order to analyse the effectiveness of the NCAs. Moreover, the analysis is valuable for future research, since the depiction of the trends and differences can form the basis for further research to explain the percentages, trends and developments – as the author is doing for the Netherlands.
在欧洲联盟,有相当数量的卡特尔是由国家竞争主管机构(NCAs)发现和执行的。国内执法的有效性一直受到广泛的审查和辩论,最近达到高潮,并导致了ECN指令的提案。目前的讨论主要局限于执法活动的数量、罚款的数额以及罚款的高度和威慑力。对这些罚款受到质疑的法院程序及其后果的经验性评估尽管很重要,但却很少受到重视。荷兰的例子,特别是NCA发出的罚款与法院审查后剩下的罚款之间的差异,表明仅仅参考批准的案件数量描绘了一幅扭曲的画面,对诉讼率和成功诉讼率的分析对于准确评估NCA的有效性是必不可少的。鉴于此,本文分析了10个成员国(比利时、保加利亚、克罗地亚、芬兰、法国、德国、意大利、荷兰、瑞典和英国)卡特尔罚款案件中(成功)诉讼的频率和撤销的原因。公共政策制定者,如欧盟委员会,可以从这些数据中受益,这些数据是为了分析国家气候行动的有效性而收集的。此外,该分析对未来的研究很有价值,因为对趋势和差异的描述可以形成进一步研究的基础,以解释百分比、趋势和发展-正如作者为荷兰所做的那样。
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引用次数: 1
The Implementation of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive in Italy: An Overview with a Critical Assessment of Dissenting Shareholders’ Appraisal 意大利跨境并购指令的实施:对持不同意见股东评估的批判性评估
Pub Date : 2019-04-09 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22753-1_18
Sergio Gilotta
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引用次数: 1
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