by Kevin Coates | Jan 27, 2014 | Antitrust, Cartels, Featured, Fines
The European Commission’s positions on inability to pay competition fines, and on the failing firm defence under the merger regulation are superficially different, but the underlying policy concern is the same. The Commission’s 2006 Fining Guidelines...
by 21st Century Competition | Jan 24, 2014 | Global Blogs
The FTC gets a win in its Idaho hospital merger challenge, and the Chairwoman likes it. The FTC staff tells Massachusetts that it should loosen regulation of nurse-provided health care. The FTC gets another hospital system divestiture remedy. Two new speeches...
by Kevin Coates | Jan 24, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
Commentary Elsewhere: from writers around the web. Please note the explanation of this section on the “About the Site” page. From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Standard-Essential Patents “Josh Lerner (Harvard) and Jean Tirole (Toulouse)...
by 21st Century Competition | Jan 21, 2014 | Global Blogs
As happens every year about this time, the FTC has announced the new thresholds under the Clayton Act, including of greatest interest to this blog, Section 7A, which is better known as the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act or the HSR Act. As you may already know, the FTC is...
by Kevin Coates | Jan 20, 2014 | Abuse
Most press comment has been on the Commission’s investigation into Google’s search practices. The Commission has another pending case, however, into Google’s handling of the Android operating system. Alfonso Lamadrid of Garrigues (disclosure: a...
