Jorge Padilla

Big data is changing the competitive landscape of the banking industry. Banks are using new technologies (blockchain, artificial intelligence) and exploit large databases to offer new services to their clients. New players (FinTechs, Big Techs) are also able to offer banking services online (...)

Antitrust enforcement involving intellectual property rights - particularly standard-essential patents - continues to receive significant global attention, including most recently by OECD member countries at the June 2019 OECD Competition Committee meetings. This Article provides an economic (...)

These notes discuss why competition law enforcement differs across jurisdictions and consider whether such a divergence is justified. They conclude that it is insofar as differences in policy reflect differences in the underlying economy or differences in policy preferences. But they should be (...)

Valérie Meunier and Jorge Padilla give their view on the way reverse payment patent settlements (RPPSs) should be assessed by competition authorities. From an economic viewpoint, the authors raise pro-competitive effects RPPS may have on consumer welfare and consider that a per se prohibition is (...)

This paper considers the role of economics in EU competition over the last fifteen years. I explain the reasons why the European Commission decided to incorporate PhD economists to its ranks, describe the evolution of the Chief Competition Economist Team (CET), and document the impact of the (...)

In this roundtable, speakers discuss the challenges and opportunities that the standard setting organizations and processes represent for competition and innovation. First, Josef Drexl’s introductory remarks focus on defining the scope of the roundtable. In the second contribution, Jorge Padilla (...)

The fourth roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22 February 2013) was dedicated to "Industrial policy: Can a pro-competition industrial policy exist?". In the first contribution, Frederic Jenny specifies the notions in the matter. Jorge Padilla, author of the second (...)

La deuxième table-ronde de la conférence New Frontiers of Antitrust du 11 février 2011 à Paris est dédiée à la quantification des dommages dans les procedures civiles. Raphael de Coninck, membre de l’équipe du chef économiste de la Commission européenne, présente dans la première contribution, plusieurs (...)

Behavioural economics: Questioning the foundations of antitrust? Introduction Frédéric JENNY President, OECD Competition Committee President of the International board of the Review Concurrences Professor, Co-Director of the Centre Européen de Droit et d’Economie, ESSEC, Paris 1. Ladies and (...)

Should merger control take account of the current economic and financial crisis? While there are no credible reasons to support a more or less lenient policy, it is important to recognise that the credit crunch may have an impact on (a) the merger rationale, (b) the pro- and anti-competitive (...)

Considering the important number of contributions, the papers of this conference are reproduced in the pdf version attached only. Please note that these papers are also freely available for non-subscribers at the "Conference" section of the (...)

In 2003 and 2004, the European Commission made a series of significant reforms both to Community competition law and DG Competition. The legislative reforms were accompanied by equally far-reaching internal reforms to the organisation and procedures within DG Competition. This set of three (...)