Alessandro Kadner-Graziano was invited by Professor Monika Schnitzer, Chairwoman of the German Board of Economic Advisors, to speak at a seminar at LMU University in Munich on May 23rd. During the seminar, he presented to students on the practical work of an antitrust economist, highlighting cases recently handled by CRA. These included the EU’s Google Shopping case, the Qualcomm/NXP merger proceedings in both the EU and the US, and the multi-jurisdictional Microsoft/Activision case.
The role of uncertainty in the future European horizontal merger guidelines: Lessons learned from Illumina/GRAIL
Under these circumstances, it is however not entirely clear how the future competitive landscape will look like, merger effects cannot be modelled with a high...