David Spector is an Associate Professor at the Paris School of Economics and the founder of MAPP, an economic consulting firm. After a training in mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and an Economics Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, he was an Assistant Professor at the Economics department of MIT until 2001. David Spector's pubications and teaching deal with the theory of oligopolistic competition, with a focus on exclusionary practices, mergers, and State aid. He also published a book on the electricity market (Electricité : faut-il désespérer du marché ?, Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2007). In his consulting work, he has been producing economic expert reports in merger, cartel, abuse of dominance, and State aid cases, before the French, Dutch and Australian competition authorities and the European Commission, as well as before national and European Courts. Languages : English, French, German, Italian.
Articles by David Spector for e-Competitions / Concurrences
Total number of visits : 112299 (French and English versions)
e-Competitions Bulletin
- The French competition authority fines construction firms for rigging bids but considers joint submissions legal (Public water supply networks), 17 January 2007 (2042 visits)
- The Paris Court of appeal upholds a decision of the NCA fining a manufacturer for exclusive distribution agreements and RPM but annuls the part of the decision regarding rebates (Royal Canin), 14 April 2006 (4440 visits)
- The French NCA fines producers and retailers for vertical price-fixing agreements in the luxury perfume sector, 13 March 2006 (4048 visits)
- The French competition authority fines two firms for abusing their dominant position in the water market (Sedif-Lyonnaise des Eaux), 3 November 2005 (4090 visits)
Concurrences Review
- Regulating electricity tariffs: An energetic debate, Concurrences, N° 4-2009, pp. 11-34 (1760 visits)
- Termination charges and margin squeeze in the mobile telephony sector: Beware of misleading intuitions, Concurrences, N° 3-2009, pp. 35-38 (1496 visits)
- Competition policy in times of crisis, Concurrences, N° 2-2009, www.concurrences.com (2684 visits)
- What can be learnt from econometric studies in cartel cases?, Concurrences, N° 1-2009, pp. 42-45 (2435 visits)
- The impact of competition policy on firms’ valuation, Concurrences, N° 4-2008, www.concurrences.com (2803 visits)
- Agriculture and competition: Two policies at war?, Concurrences, N° 4-2008, pp. 11-26 (3259 visits)
- State Aid Colloquium, 14 March 2008, Concurrences, N° 3-2008, www.concurrences.com (4963 visits)
- Addressing buyer power in merger control, Concurrences, N° 3-2008, pp. 34-39 (2514 visits)
- Competition policy in the energy sector: Squaring the circle?, Concurrences, N° 2-2008, pp. 50-56 (3318 visits)
- «Chatel» Law: A new deal for producers & distributors - Some legal and economic points of view, Concurrences, N° 1-2008, pp. 10-20 (7170 visits)
- Some economics of margin squeeze, Concurrences, N° 1-2008, pp. 21-26 (4994 visits)
- Will efficiencies ever matter in merger control ?, Concurrences, N° 4-2007, pp. 20-26 (3220 visits)
- Minimum resale prices: Is a ban justified?, Concurrences, N° 3-2007, pp. 28-32 (3400 visits)
- The antitrust economics of bidding markets, Concurrences, N° 2-2007, pp. 23-28 (3562 visits)
- Collective dominant position : about the proper implementation of the Airtours test, Concurrences, N° 1-2007, pp. 26-30 (4741 visits)
- Fidelity rebates: Annulation of the Royal Canin decision, Concurrences, N° 3-2006, pp. 95-97 (3840 visits)
- Bundling is not abusive if they do not cause rivals’ eviction, even in the absence of any objective justifications (Advertising in cinemas), Concurrences, N° 3-2006, pp. 97-98 (3343 visits)
- The French Competition Authority condemns France Telecom and SFR Cegetel for margin squeeze practices regarding the price of fixed to mobile calls (France T’com-SFR Cegetel-Bouygues T’com), Concurrences, N° 1-2005, pp.65-66 (4162 visits)
- Definition of the relevant cost benchmark for a predatory pricing assessment in the case of a firm using the same assets for a public service activity and for an activity taking place in a competitive market (RPDEV), Concurrences, N° 1-2005, pp.66-67 (5005 visits)
- The French Competition Authority rejects the objections leveled against France Telecom in the sector of Internet access provision (France Télécom) , Concurrences, N° 1-2005, pp. 67-68 (3298 visits)
- The French Competition Authority’s evolving definition of predatory pricing (AOL), Concurrences, N° 1-2004, pp. 60-62 (4051 visits)
- Bundled sales by dominant firms are not prohibited a priori (Canal +), Concurrences, N° 2-2005, pp. 60-62 (3586 visits)
- The French Competition Authority accepts the commitments proposed by the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), Concurrences, N° 3-2005, pp. 79-81 (3395 visits)
- How should a new product be defined in order to implement the IMS test? (Yver & Tellier), Concurrences, N° 3-2005, pp. 81-82 (3414 visits)
- Price squeeze: A water company fined for offering bundled rebates (Ile-de-France), Concurrences, N° 1-2006, pp. 143-146 (3523 visits)
- The economic policy of State Aids: The assessment criteria, Concurrences, N° 2-2006, pp. 34-43 (4333 visits)
- Rebates: The French NCA enjoins press distributors to suspend agreements granting conditional rebates to retailers (Messageries Lyonnaises de Presse et Agora Diffusion Presse), Concurrences, N° 2-2006, pp. 95-98 (3410 visits)