Publications and Discussion papers (Chief Competition Economist)

2004 - 2019

2019

• Increasing Market Power and Merger Control
  Tommaso Valletti and Hans Zenger
• Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and protecting disruption 
  Giulio Federico, Fiona Scott Morton and Carl Shapiro
• Interchange Fee Regulation and Service Investments
  Markus Reisinger and Hans Zenger
• Parallel Imports, Price Controls, and Innovation
  Markus Reisinger, Lluís Saurí and Hans Zenger
• Vertical relations, opportunism, and welfare
  Germain Gaudin
• Online Privacy and Market Structure: Theory and Evidence 
  Sapi Geza with Sabatino Lorien
• Collective Exclusion
  Karlinger Giardino Liliane joint with Calcagno Claudio A.
• Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2018/2019
  Rossitza Kotzeva, David Kovo, Szabolcs Lorincz, Geza Sapi, Lluis Sauri and Tommaso Valletti

2018

• Customer Recognition and Mobile Geo-Targeting
  Sapi Geza with Reiz Tim and Baye Irina
• Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018
  Andrea Amelio, Thomas Buettner, Cyril Hariton, Gábor Koltay, Penelope Papandropoulos, Geza Sapi, Tommaso Valletti, Hans Zenger
• Vertical Bargaining and Retail Competition: What Drives Countervailing Power?
  Germain Gaudin
• Recapture Ratios in Merger Analysis
  Serge Moresi and Hans Zenger
• Should Profit Margins Play a More Decisive Role in Merger Control? - A Rejoinder to Jorge Padilla
  Tommaso Valletti and Hans Zenger
• Horizontal mergers and product innovation
  Giulio Federico, Gregor Langus and Tommaso Valletti

2017

• Should Mobile Marketers Collect Other Data Than Geo‐Location?
  Sapi Geza with Baye Irina
• Recent developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017
  Benno Buehler, Daniel Coublucq, Cyril Hariton, Gregor Langus, Tommaso Valletti
• Horizontal Mergers, Innovation and the Competitive Process
  Giulio Federico

2016

• Recent developments at DG Competition: 2015/2016
  Claici Adina, Coublucq Daniel, Federico Giulio, Motta Massimo, Sauri Romero Lluis

2015

• Ex-post evaluation analysis of two mobile telecom mergers: T-Mobile/tele.ring in Austria and T-Mobile/Orange in the Netherlands
  Luca Aguzzoni, Benno Buehler, Luca Di Martile, Georg Ecker, Ron Kemp, Anton Schwarz, Robert Stil
• Recent developments at DG Competition: 2014
  Giulio Federico, Massimo Motta and Penelope Papandropoulos

2014

• Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2013–2014
  Benno Buehler, Gábor Koltay, Xavier Boutin, Massimo Motta, Review of Industrial Organization

2013

• Consumer Welfare in EU Competition Policy
  Svend Albaek in C. Heide-Jørgensen, C.Bergqvist, U. Neergaard and S.T. Poulsen (eds.)
• Economic Analysis at the European Commission 2012–2013
  Thomas Buettner, Giulio Federico, Kai-Uwe Kühn and Dimitrios Magos
• Multimarket contact in Italian retail banking: Competition and welfare
  Jozsef Molnara, Roberto Violi and Xiaolan Zhou
• SEPs and Evidence-Based Antitrust Enforcement
  Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Fiona Scott Morton and Howard Shelanski
• Optimal Asset Divestments with Homogenous Products 
  Giulio Federico and Angel L. Lopez
• SAA II: Abuse of Dominance in the South African skies 
  Giulio Federico
• Communication, Renegotiation and the Scope for Collusion 
  Kai-Uwe Kühn and David J. Cooper
• Financial Constraints and the Moral Hazard: The Case for Franchising 
  Kai-Uwe Kühn, Ying Fan and Francine Lafontaine

2012

• Tying and freebies in two-sided markets
  Andrea Amelio and Bruno Julien
• Economics at DG Competition, 2011–2012 
  Kai-Uwe Kühn, Szabolcs Lorincz, Vincent Verouden and Annemiek Wilpshaar
• How Market Fragmentation can Facilitate Collusion 
  Kai-Uwe Kühn
• Contingent Capital: An In-Depth Discussion 
  Stan Maes and Wim Schouten
• Empirical Review of EU Asset Relief Measures in the Period 2008-2012 
  Yassine Boudghene and Stan Maes
• Relieving Banks from Toxic or Impaired Assets: The EU State Aid Policy Framework 
  Yassine Boudghene and Stan Maes Maes
• Sabotaging entry: an estimation of damages in the directory enquiry service market 
  Maite Martinez Granado and Georges Sotis
• Should Variable Cost Aid to Attract Foreign Direct Investment be Banned? A European Perspective
  Mario Mariniello
• Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability 
  Kai-Uwe Kühn, Christos Genakos and John Van Reenen

2011

• Economics at DG Competition, 2009-2010
  Kai-Uwe Kühn, Svend Albaek and Miguel de la Mano
• Fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms: a challenge for competition authorities
  Mario Mariniello
• Quantifying Antitrust Damages in Civil Proceedings: A Pragmatic Approach
  Raphaël De Coninck
• Perfect surcharging and the tourist test interchange fee
  Hans Zenger
• The Competitive Effects of Rail Freight Mergers in the Context of European Liberalization
  Oliver Stehmann and Hans Zenger

2010

• Alternating Monopoly and Tacit Collusion
  Andrea Amelio and Sara Biancini
• Economics at DG Competition, 2009-2010
  Damien Neven and Miguel de la Mano
• Application of the Nonhorizontal Merger Guidelines
  Raphaël De Coninck
• When Does Exclusive Dealing Intensify Competition for Distribution? Comment on Klein and Murphy
  Hans Zenger
• Estimating private antitrust damages
  Raphael De Coninck
• Best Practices onthe Submission of Economic Evidence and Data Collection
  Damien Neven and Raphael De Coninck
• Predatory Exclusive Dealing 
  Joachim Klein and Hans Zenger
• Asset Relief Measures in the EU: Overview and Issues 
  Yassine Boudghene, Stan Maes and Martin Scheicher

2009

• Economics at DG Comp 2008-2009
  Damien Neven and Miguel de la Mano
• Capacity choices in liberalised electricity markets 
  Fidel Castro-Rodriguez, Pedro L. Marín and Georges Sotis
• Market definition in recent EC merger investigations: The role of empirical analysis
  Andrea Amelio and Daniel Donath
• Competition policy in times of crisis
  David Spector, Andrea Amelio, Georges Siotis, Antoine Winckler, François-Charles Laprévote and Carlos Winograd
• Generic entry in prescription medicines in the EU: main characteristics, determinants and effects 
  Elzbieta Glowicka, Szabolcs Lorincz, Enrico Pesaresi, Lluis Sauri Romero and Vincent Verouden

2008

• Economics at DG Competition 2007-2008
  Damien Neven and Svend Albaek
• Towards a More Refined Economic Approach in State Aid Control
  Damien Neven and Vincent Verouden
• The non-horizontal merger guidelines in practice
  Raphael De Coninck and Penelope Papandropoulos
• Ex post evaluation of enforcement: a principal-agent perspective
  Damien Neven and Hans Zenger
• Implementing an effects-based approach under Article 82
  Penelope Papandropoulos
• Economic analysis in European competitionpolicy: The first 2000 (or so) years
  Damien Neven
• Vertical Agreements: Motivation and Impact
  Vincent Verouden
• Ownership, performance & national champions 
  Damien Neven

2007

• Economics at DG Competition 2006-2007
  Damien Neven and Svend Albaek
• How should price discrimination be dealt with by competitionauthorities?
  Penelope Papandropoulos
• European State Aid Control: an economic framework
  Hans W. Friederiszick, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Vincent Verouden
• L'analyse économique des effets unilatéraux dans quelqes cas récents de fusions
  Penelope Papandropoulos
• Competition Economics in the European Commission
  Damien Neven
• The analysis of conglomerate effects in EU merger control,
  Paolo Bucirrosi (ed)
• The Political Economy of European Merger Control: Evidence using Stock Market Data
  T. Duso and Damien Neven

2006

• The Impact of the New Substantive Test in European Merger Control
  Miguel De la Mano and Lars-Hendrik Röller
• Competition economics and antitrust in Europe
  Damien Neven
• Union power and product market competition: evidence from the airline industry
  Damien Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Z. Zhang
• GE Honeywell – A case study of transatlantic conflict
  Damien Neven and J. Grant
• The Year 2005 at DG Competition: The Trend towards a More Effects-Based Approach
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Oliver Stehmann
• Grenzen der Wettbewerbspolitik bei der Öffnung von Netzwerkindustrien
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Oliver Stehmann
• Ökonomische Analyse des Begriffs "significant impediment to effective competition"
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Andreas Strohm
• Efficiency gains from mergers
  Lars-Hendrik Röller, Johan Stennek and Frank Verboven
• Weniger und effektiver - Ökonomische Prüfverfahren könnten die EU-Beihilfenkontrolle stärken
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Hans W. Friederiszick

2005

• Simulating the effect of Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft
  Claes Bengtsson
• Economic Analysis and Competition Policy Enforcement in Europe
  Lars-Hendrik Röller
• The Office of the Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Pierre A. Buigues
• Der ökonomische Ansatz in der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik
  Lars-Hendrik Röller
• A Three-Step Structured Rule of Reason to Assess Predation under Article 102 
  Miguel de la Mano and Benoît Durand
• Endogenous Costs and Price-Cost Margins
  Damien Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Zhentang Zhang
• Marktabgrenzung und Marktmacht
  Hans W. Friederiszick

2004

• Ökonomische Analyse in der EU Wettbewerbspolitik
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Hans W. Friederiszick
• The Impact of the New Substantive Test in European Merger Control
  Lars-Hendrik Röller and Miguel de la Mano