RBB

Publications

  • Article 04/11/2024
    RBB response to EC's draft Article 102 TFEU Guidelines
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  • Brief #68 10/09/2024
    Flight of fantasy? The European Commission’s Booking/Etraveli prohibition
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  • Article 16/08/2024
    RBB comments on proposed changes to competition test for mergers in Australia
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  • Article 12/07/2024
    RBB response to the CMA’s draft guidance for the digital markets competition regime
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  • Brief #67 08/07/2024
    No substitute for economics: the Commission’s updated market definition notice
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  • Article 26/02/2024
    Trouble in store(s): The CMA’s new approach to local mergers post-MAGs
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  • Article 20/11/2023
    RBB response to South African Commission’s draft guidelines for public interest in merger control
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  • Article 05/05/2023
    RBB response to the EC’s updated Article 102 TFEU Guidance and Policy Brief
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  • Brief #66 01/11/2022
    Seeing vertical mergers through a different lens? Implications from EssilorLuxottica / GrandVision
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  • Article 25/10/2021
    Business Investment in Europe at Significant Risk From EU Foreign Subsidies Proposal New Study Finds
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  • Brief #65 25/08/2021
    Fuel for thought? Developments in CMA local merger assessment
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  • Brief #64 28/04/2021
    Surviving the broad axe: The UK class action regime is alive and kicking, but what can the Supreme Court’s judgment in Merricks/Mastercard tell us about the role of economics in class certifications going forward?
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  • Brief #63 15/03/2021
    Digging in the Scrap Heap! A new theory of adverse buyer power
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  • Article 01/02/2021
    How Merger Control Rolls: A Response to Caffarra, Crawford and Valletti
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  • Article 26/01/2021
    Consultation on the CMA Draft Merger Guidelines
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  • Article 18/12/2020
    CMA’s Draft Merger Guidelines: Observations by RBB Economics
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  • Brief #62 03/12/2020
    Economic Lessons from the EU General Court’s Three/O2 Judgment
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  • Article 05/11/2020
    The Competition Commission’s Paper on Competition in the Digital Economy
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  • Article 21/10/2020
    RBB Economics comments on the EC’s Market Definition Notice
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  • Brief #61 28/05/2020
    Lost in the post: where is the as-efficient competitor test after Royal Mail v Ofcom?
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  • Brief #60 16/10/2019
    Sainsbury’s/Asda and the CMA’s GUPPI decision rule: On the money or basket case?
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  • Brief #59 01/05/2019
    A question of balance: comments on a proposed new test for UK merger control
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  • Brief #58 10/12/2018
    Beyond internal documents: the Commission’s recent conglomerate effects practice
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  • Brief #57 26/11/2018
    Mamma Mia! Mis-using Abba Lerner’s index to measure market power
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  • Brief #56 23/07/2018
    Pfizer/Flynn vs the CMA: Misdiagnosis of excessive pricing
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  • Brief #55 12/02/2018
    Automatic Harm to Competition? Pricing algorithms and coordination
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  • Article 01/12/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry: Annex
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  • Brief #54 05/07/2017
    An innovative leap into the theoretical abyss: Dow/DuPont and the Commission’s novel theory of harm
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  • Article 01/06/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry, Paper V: Direct value to the industry
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  • Article 01/06/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry, Paper IV: Value for consumers
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  • Article 01/06/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry, Paper III: Promotion
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  • Article 01/06/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry, Paper II: Growth of all platforms
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  • Article 01/05/2017
    Value of YouTube to the music industry, Paper I: Cannibalisation
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  • Brief #53 29/03/2017
    Passing judgment on passing-on
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  • Brief #52 21/06/2016
    Estimating post-merger price effects in bidding markets: lessons from GE/Alstom
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  • Brief #51 22/03/2016
    Better together? Commission adds a new tune to its repertoire on music rights mergers
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  • Brief #50 09/10/2015
    The CMA Energy Market Review: a remedy without a cause?
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  • Brief #49 24/02/2015
    Refining its Tool Kit – The ACCC’s decision to authorise RPM in the Tooltechnic case
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  • Brief #48 18/12/2014
    The price effect of cost changes: passing through and here to stay
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  • Brief #47 01/07/2014
    Drink deriving: estimating substitution patterns
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  • Brief #46 11/03/2014
    Turning Round a Supertanker: the OFT’s abuse of dominance case against CH Jones
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  • Brief #45 04/11/2013
    Gold Circle/Kenilworth Racing, a case of “horizontal” complements
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  • Brief #44 26/09/2013
    Where Economists Roam: Syniverse/MACH and contestability
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  • Brief #43 02/07/2013
    Creditworthy? The OFT Review of Personal Current Accounts
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  • Brief #41 18/03/2013
    Do efficiencies ever deliver? Lessons from the UPS/TNT case
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  • Brief #40 23/11/2012
    Another Fine Mess: OFT proposals pave the way to effects-based analysis of competition law penalties
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  • Brief #39 24/05/2012
    Roll on demand estimation: the EC’s empirical analysis in Unilever/Sara Lee
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  • Brief #38 18/01/2012
    The OFT Tobacco Investigation: a case of smoke without fire
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  • Article 14/11/2011
    The Joint OFT / CC Commentary on Retail Mergers: FAQs
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  • Brief #37 09/09/2011
    Pass-on in Damages Assessment: defence or offence?
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  • Brief #36 03/03/2011
    Road-testing UPP: the Zipcar/Streetcar merger
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  • Brief #35 28/10/2010
    Keeping Track of Static and Dynamic Incentives: The Australian approach to essential facilities
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  • Brief #34 04/01/2010
    The EU Commission’s Proposals for Regulating New Car Sales: Article 101 meets Economics 1.01
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  • Brief #33 01/01/2010
    A matter of ups and downs: the competitive assessment of fuel price dynamics
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  • Article 14/09/2009
    Comments on proposed changes to EC Guidelines on Vertical Restraints
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  • Article 14/08/2009
    OFT/CC Joint Merger Assessment Guidelines: Response to Invitation to Comment
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  • Brief #32 11/01/2009
    Nokia/NAVTEQ – navigating the non-horizontal merger guidelines
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  • Brief #31 09/01/2009
    Catch-22: The role for economics in the assessment of information exchanges under Article 81
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  • Brief #30 28/09/2008
    When One is Enough? – Effects-based and efficiencies analyses in practice
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  • Brief #29 21/09/2008
    Crime and Punishment (and Deterrence) – the role of private cartel damages actions
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  • Brief #28 15/09/2008
    Sending the Right Signal
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  • Brief #27 07/09/2008
    Grand Theft Antitrust: Lessons from the GAME/Gamestation transaction
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  • Brief #26 02/06/2008
    Google/DoubleClick: The search for a theory of harm
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  • Brief #25 27/05/2008
    Two Sides to Every Story? Lessons from the Travelport/Worldspan EC case
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  • Brief #24 31/12/2007
    The CC’s Northern Ireland Banking Market Investigation – an absence of effective regulation?
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  • Brief #23 17/09/2007
    Svitzer/Adsteam: Assessing unilateral effects when monopolists merge
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  • Brief #22 12/07/2007
    (Fore)closing the Gap: The Commission’s Draft Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines
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  • Brief #21 04/02/2007
    Tomra: rolling back form-based analysis of rebates?
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  • Article 14/01/2007
    The Competitive Effects of Buyer Groups, Economic Discussion Paper, A Report prepared for the Office of Fair Trading
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  • Brief #20 30/09/2006
    Making market definition work: the case of telecoms (de)regulation
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  • Brief #19 25/06/2006
    Lost in Translation: The use and abuse of diversion ratios in unilateral effects analysis
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  • Brief #18 24/03/2006
    Turning the Tables: Why Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers are Different
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  • Article 14/03/2006
    The Response of RBB Economics to the DG Competition Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82 of the Treaty to Exclusionary Abuses
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  • Brief #17 21/08/2005
    The Need for Reality Checks: An example from the Netherlands
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  • Brief #16 15/01/2005
    Tying and bundling – cause for complaint?
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  • Brief #42 22/05/2004
    Entering Uncharted Territory: the Commission’s thinking on territorial supply constraints
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  • Brief #14 21/05/2004
    Assessing Unilateral Effects in Practice: Lessons from GE/Instrumentarium
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  • Brief #13 15/02/2004
    The special responsibility of dominant firms under Article 82: don’t compete on price
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  • Brief #15 07/01/2004
    Art or Science? Assessing efficiencies under the Commission’s Article 81(3) Notice
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  • Brief #12 04/01/2004
    The Emperor’s New Clothes? – the role of merger simulation models
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  • Brief #11 30/10/2003
    Goldilocks and the three bears – the story of market definition and the cruise mergers
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  • Brief #10 27/07/2003
    The Genzyme Case and the OFT’s Margin Squeeze Muddle
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  • Brief #09 23/06/2003
    Fine in Theory
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  • Brief #08 14/04/2003
    Ringing the changes – The New Approach to Telecommunications Regulation
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  • Brief #07 27/11/2002
    Full Marks? The Draft EC Notice on the Appraisal of Horizontal Mergers
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  • Brief 06 15/11/2002
    Switching Costs and Merger Assessment – don’t move the goalposts
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  • Brief #05 07/09/2002
    Excess Pricing in the Napp Chapter II Case – how much is too much?
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  • Brief #04 16/08/2002
    Pro-Competitive Exclusive Supply Agreements: How Refreshing!
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  • Brief #03 10/07/2002
    The Treatment of Captive Sales in Market Definition – Rules or Reason?
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  • Brief #02 05/06/2002
    Airtours/First Choice: CFI Holds Commission to Account
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  • Brief #01 01/05/2002
    A Bridge Too Far? – Complements, Substitutes and Theories of Exclusion in EC Merger Control
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