Julien Pellefigue is an economist and a partner with Taj and Associate researcher at the University Paris 2 - Panthéon Assas in the Research Centre in Law and Economics. He provides clients with economic assistance for a wide range of competition issues (merger control, Art. 101 and Art. 102) in various sectors. Prior to joining Taj, he worked as a Partner with TERA and as a Senior Manager with A.T. Kearney in Paris and before that, was part of the in-house economists team of a French law firm. Julien graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, he holds a postgraduate degree in Game Theory (Université Paris VI) and a PhD in Economics (University Paris II).
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The relationship between State aid control and tax law in the European Union is longstanding and conflictual. The European Commission has used its State aid control powers to address illegal aid provided through tax arrangements and combat discriminatory tax measures. However, this approach (...)
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Whenever firms producing a large range of non substitutable products (e.g. automotive parts) are involved in an antitrust case, it is difficult to use the traditionnal approach to relevant market definition, based upon demand side substitutability. Absent clear jurisprudential guidances, in (...)
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The antidumping policies, originally set up to control the anticompetitive conducts of foreign exporting firms, have evolved so much that they are now likely to cause damages to domestic consumers. Certain concepts and economic tools developped in the antitrust framework could be used by (...)
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The assessment of the anti-competitive nature of certain practices can raise specific issues when multinational firms are involved. To work around those issues, Competition Authorities can be tempted to use fiscal transfer prices in their calculations. The article underlines the risks of such (...)
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Since the ’80s, economists have focused on behavioral analysis. This approach has contributed to the development of regulations on mergers control, decreasing the importance of structural analysis in favor of the study on unilateral and coordinated effects, as shown by the latest version of the (...)
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