Publications

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27 | 01 | 2012

Sponsored Entry

16 | 12 | 2011

Differentiated Interchange Fees

by Hans Zenger, accepted for publication in Economics Letters

25 | 11 | 2011

Choice of Enforcement Procedures under Legal Uncertainty

by Yannis Katsoulacos, Senior Consultant with CRA, and David Ulph

31 | 05 | 2011

Les échanges d'informations

by Laurent Flochel, published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 2-2011

18 | 04 | 2011

India's New Merger Control Regime: An Economist's Perspective

by Rameet Sangha, published in the CPI Antitrust Chronicle, April 2011

28 | 03 | 2011

EU pay TV: the shifting focus of regulatory intervention

by Adrien Cervera-Jackson, published in E-Commerce Law & Policy, Volume 13 Issue 03, March 2011

23 | 03 | 2011

Horizontal Mergers: The UPP, GUPPI and IPR tests

by Laurent Flochel

28 | 02 | 2011

Tomra v Commission of the European Communities: reversing progress on rebates?

by Giulio Federico

19 | 01 | 2011

The Spanish Gas and Electricity Sector: Regulation, Markets and Environmental Policies

by Giulio Federico

19 | 11 | 2010

Margin squeezes and the inefficient "equally efficient" operator

01 | 11 | 2010

Concurrence, santé publique, innovation et médicament

Two chapters written by Laurent Flochel

27 | 10 | 2010

Effects Analysis in Hub and Spoke Cartels

04 | 10 | 2010

Tomra v Commission: reversing progress on rebates?

20 | 09 | 2010

Reform of Vertical Restraints: Implications of the new EC Regulation

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 3-2010

31 | 08 | 2010

New US Horizontal Merger Guidelines: CRA commentary on the GUPPI

24 | 05 | 2010

Les gains d'efficacité et les arguments pro-concurrentiels en matière de concentrations et de pratiques unilatérales

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 2-2010

19 | 04 | 2010

US Horizontal Merger Regulation Reform: Issues and Significance beyond US Enforcement

By Cristina Caffarra and Serge Moresi

18 | 03 | 2010

Draining Liquidity: a novel vertical effect in electricity mergers?

By Giulio Federico & Diana Jackson, published in European Competition Law Review, Issue 5-2010

08 | 02 | 2010

Les coûts à court terme - Application aux tests de prix prédateurs (Short-term costs - Application to predatory prices)

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 1-2010

16 | 10 | 2009

Excessive Pricing Disharmony

16 | 10 | 2009

Draining Liquidity

23 | 09 | 2009

The importance of a theory of harm

22 | 09 | 2009

September issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter

17 | 09 | 2009

Les tests de prix d`éviction (Foreclosure Tests: A unified conceptual framework)

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 3-2009

14 | 09 | 2009

"Selective Distribution by Luxury Goods Suppliers: A Response to Kinsella et al"

by Thomas Buettner, Andrea Coscelli, Thibaud Vergé and Ralph A Winter, published in the European Competition Journal, Vol 5(2), August 2009.

01 | 04 | 2009

Econometric analyses of unilateral effects in merger cases

by Dr Ian Small, published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 2-2009

26 | 03 | 2009

March issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter

02 | 02 | 2009

"La concurrence entre biens systèmes"

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence

18 | 12 | 2008

Competition and regulation in the Spanish gas and electricity markets

An overview of recent developments in competition and regulation in the Spanish gas and electricity markets set in the context of the European energy industry, prepared by CRA Senior Consultant Giulio Federico (jointly with Xavier Vives and Natalia Fabra). The report is published by the Public-Private Sector Research Center of IESE Business School.

15 | 12 | 2008

Selective Distribution of Luxury Goods in the Age of e-commerce - An Economic Report for CHANEL

An economic opinion on the justification for restrictions on internet distribution by luxury goods manufacturers operating selective distribution networks, prepared by Dr Cristina Caffarra and Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühn

11 | 11 | 2008

November issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter

A round-up of our European and International news

22 | 09 | 2008

"An Economic Analysis of the Use of Selective Distribution by Luxury Goods Suppliers"

by Dr Thomas Buettner, Dr Andrea Coscelli, Dr Thibaud Verge' and Professor Ralph A. Winter

01 | 09 | 2008

Les remèdes structurels dans le cadre du contrôle des concentrations

by Dr Laurent Flochel (in French), published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No 3-2009

27 | 08 | 2008

Tom Tom/Tele Atlas: The Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines in practice

09 | 06 | 2008

June issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter

A round-up of our European and International news

28 | 04 | 2008

"Regulatory intervention in the payment card industry by the Reserve Bank of Australia: Analysis of the evidence"

A review of the existing evidence on the impacts of the RBA`s payment system regulations, prepared by Robert Stillman, William Bishop, Kyla Malcolm and Nicole Hildebrandt and submitted to the RBA. Cover letter Report

19 | 03 | 2008

Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals: more harm than good?

12 | 03 | 2008

March issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter

A round-up of our European and International news

11 | 12 | 2007

Incentives to innovate - another look at Microsoft's defence in the work group server case

30 | 11 | 2007

November issue of CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter.

A round-up of our European and International News

18 | 10 | 2007

"Similarities and Differences in the Use of Economics in Merger Cases by the European Commission and the US Agencies"

by Dr Andrea Coscelli and Dr Robert J. Levinson

05 | 10 | 2007

Efficiency and Anti-Competitive Effects of Tying

Andrea Coscelli and Geoff Edwards propose a rule of reason framework for the analysis of tying cases under Article 82. This paper is part of a collection of papers from the 2007 EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute. Click here to access the collection.

14 | 09 | 2007

Welcome to CRA Insights, our European Competition Practice newsletter.

A round-up of our European and International News

14 | 09 | 2007

"Mobile Call Termination"

A new paper on mobile termination issues presented by Mark Armstrong (UCL) at CRA's "European Telecoms: Hot Topics in Antitrust Enforcement" conference in Brussels on June 19th 2007.

20 | 08 | 2007

Ryanair/Aer Lingus: Flight Cancelled

23 | 07 | 2007

"Indirect Constraints and Captive Sales"

An overview of regulatory practice and competition case law with regard to indirect constraints and captive sales in market definition and market power assessments, prepared by CRA International for Ofcom in May 2006 by Geoff Edwards and Valter Sorana

13 | 02 | 2007

"What can be expected from the Commission`s non-horizontal merger guidelines?"

by Penelope Papandropoulos

06 | 11 | 2006

Market Definition in the Pharmaceutical Sector

15 | 08 | 2006

T-Mobile/tele.ring: analysing mavericks and efficiencies in "the first gap case"

01 | 08 | 2006

"The Merger Remedies Study - In Divestiture We Trust?"

by Papandropoulos and Tajana

26 | 06 | 2006

Economic Analysis and Judicial Review: The CFI on GE/Honeywell

From ZweR - Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht, 2/2006. With kind permission of RWS-Verlag, Cologne

06 | 06 | 2006

Article 82 Tying and Bundling

by Penelope Papandropoulos

01 | 01 | 2006

The "waterbed effect" in mobile telephony

29 | 11 | 2005

"Vertical Arithmetic"

13 | 04 | 2005

When are rebates exclusionary?

Published in the European Competition Law Review, September 2005

01 | 04 | 2005

Collective dominance and the New Regulatory Framework for electronic communications

07 | 12 | 2004

Oracle/PeopleSoft: Assessing Competitive Effects

04 | 11 | 2004

The Competitive Effects of Headline Price Announcements

01 | 04 | 2004

The New Merger Regulation and Horizontal Merger Guidelines: will they make a difference?

28 | 01 | 2004

Not so Rough?

01 | 12 | 2003

The (Mis)use of Profitability Analysis in Competition Law Cases

01 | 11 | 2003

The European Commission's Draft Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and Guidelines: A significant departure from accepted competition policy principles

01 | 11 | 2003

Quantitative Techniques in Competition Analysis

This publication (published originally by Lexecon Ltd, prior to the acquisition of Lexecon by CRA) explains, in simple terms, some of the key techniques Lexecon uses when looking at market definition issues. The approach is aimed at non-economists and explains the principles behind each method of analysis and how these have been applied in recent competition cases.

28 | 10 | 2003

Raising Rivals' Costs

01 | 08 | 2003

The Correct Approach to the Use of Empirical Analysis in Competition Policy

11 | 06 | 2003

Merger to Monopoly

14 | 04 | 2003

Minority Shareholdings

01 | 04 | 2003

Price Discrimination: An unreliable indicator of market power

14 | 11 | 2002

Tetra Laval/Sidel - The Limits of Leverage

25 | 09 | 2002

Accountancy Mergers Revisited

01 | 09 | 2002

Are Anti-Predation Rules in the Public Interest?

12 | 06 | 2002

The Airtours Appeal

30 | 04 | 2002

SME Banking

01 | 04 | 2002

Innovation and Competition Policy: Challenges for the new millennium

01 | 03 | 2002

The Importance of Market Conduct in the Economic Analysis of Mergers: The Interbrew Saga

31 | 01 | 2002

Collective Dominance & Capacity Coordination

01 | 12 | 2001

Dominance: Meaning and Measurement

01 | 12 | 2001

Competition and Mergers in Consumer Goods Industries

31 | 10 | 2001

GE/Honeywell - Share Shifting

31 | 08 | 2001

GE/Honeywell - Mixed Bundling

29 | 06 | 2001

Market Definition

31 | 01 | 2001

Buyer Power

27 | 10 | 2000

Indirect Effects in Merger Analysis

01 | 09 | 2000

Merger Control in New Markets

26 | 04 | 2000

Contestability

07 | 02 | 2000

Mergers with Durable Goods

12 | 11 | 1999

The Airtours Case

27 | 09 | 1999

Sports Rights

09 | 06 | 1999

Joint Dominance

12 | 03 | 1999

What Price is Right?

04 | 12 | 1998

Don't Throw Out Your Numbers

01 | 09 | 1998

Lessons from the Accountancy Mergers

22 | 06 | 1998

Meeting Competition

06 | 04 | 1998

Portfolio Power

19 | 02 | 1998

Dynamic Competition and Aftermarkets

11 | 11 | 1997

Essential Facilities: The Rising Tide

01 | 09 | 1997

Antitrust Enforcement and The Rule of Law

30 | 07 | 1997

Boeing/McDonnell Douglas

04 | 06 | 1997

The Modernisation of DGIV

27 | 03 | 1997

Remedies:So Much To Do, So Little Time

03 | 01 | 1997

Too Concentrated

28 | 10 | 1996

New Developments in Merger Analysis II

31 | 07 | 1996

New Developments in Merger Analysis I

13 | 04 | 1995

Why Fewer Firms Will Be Held Dominant

03 | 02 | 1995

Cartel Damages