

Jorge Padilla
Dr. Jorge Padilla is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe. Dr. Padilla earned M. Phil and D. Phil degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford. He is Research Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI, Madrid) and teaches competition economics at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) and at the TSE (Toulouse School of Economics). He has advised on various cases and given expert testimony before competition authorities and courts of several EU member states, as well as in cases before the European Commission. Dr. Padilla has submitted written testimony to the European General Court and the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal in cartel, merger control and abuse of dominance cases. He has also given expert testimony in various civil litigation (damages) and international arbitration cases. Dr. Padilla has written numerous papers on competition policy and industrial organization in the Antitrust Bulletin, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Economic Journal, the European Competition Journal, the European Competition Law Review, the European Economic Review, the Fordham International Law Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Economic Theory, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the University of Chicago Law Review, and World Competition. He is also co-author of The Law and Economics of Article 102 TFEU, 2nd edition, Hart Publishing, 2013.
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Economic Impact of Technology Standards: The past and the road ahead - Key Findings* Our research has shown that industries based on open technology standards, agreed through voluntary participation in industry bodies, have an impressive record of innovation. We looked in particular at the (...)
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Roundtable Discussion on the ECJ ruling in Intel* On 6 September 2017, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued a landmark judgment where it set aside the judgment of the General Court (“GC”) in the highly debated Intel matter. This judgment is of particular significance because it provides (...)
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Introduction In Europe, the competitive assessment of the tying and bundling practices of dominant companies has been hotly debated since the seminal Microsoft media player case. In 2004, the European Commission fined Microsoft for tying the sale of its Windows Media Player (WMP) with its (...)
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Brussels on the phone: the iPhone and competition policy* At the end of September, the press reported briefly on the understanding reached between Apple and the European Commission. According to these reports, Apple has agreed to ending two alleged anticompetitive practices in relation to one (...)
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On December 2006, the Spanish Antitrust Court, TDC, imposed a fine to Enel Viesgo: 2,5 million €. According to the TDC, Enel Viesgo has abused its dominant position in the electricity generation schedules adjustment market by setting excessively high prices (Mercado de restricciones). This (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
Books

This two-volume Liber amicorum is a collection of tributes to Ian Forrester’s outstanding career and articles signed by prominent academics and practitioners around the world on the most current (...)

Voir l’avant-propos de Laurence Idot, Frédéric Jenny et Nicolas Charbit, la préface de Martine Béhar-Touchais, la liste complète des contributeurs ainsi que la table des matières. Valérie Benabou:100 (...)

The purpose of this book is to compare and contrast EU competition case law with European Members States competition case law, and Members States competition case law with each other. To the best (...)