by Kevin Coates | Jan 21, 2016 | General
This is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave at the Chillin’ Competition conference late last year where I gave the opening speech for the panel, “An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?” I begin with the usual disclaimer that I’m...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 18, 2015 | General
This post sets out one way to analyse evidence in cartel cases. It is probably of most interest to people in competition authorities but may also be of interest to anyone who has to put a complex story together from many pieces of evidence. There are certainly ways...
by Kevin Coates | Apr 15, 2015 | Cartels, Fines, General
Do the fining rules treat small companies badly? This is an occasional criticism of the 2006 Guidelines on Fines. Is it accurate? Let’s take an intentionally simplified example. Nine companies each have value of sales of 10m euros per year in a...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 17, 2015 | General
I’ll be speaking together with Johan Ysewyn at this conference on cartel developments over the last 12 months. You can take a look at the slides from the last conference...
by Kevin Coates | Mar 16, 2015 | General
GCR has an interview with Judge Forwood – subscribers only I’m afraid – which touches on a number of issues of competition, and more specifically, cartel, enforcement, in particular the evolving nature of the enforcement system now that public...
by Kevin Coates | Feb 4, 2015 | General
In light of today’s Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality proposals, I thought I’d look again at what I wrote in 2011 in Competition Law and Regulation of Technology Markets comparing EU and US telecoms regulation. Given that...
