Former chief economist at the DGCCRF, Valérie Rabassa has a Ph.D in economics from Toulouse University. She has a master on mathematical economics and econometrics. Between 2000 and 2003 she was case officer at the Merger Task Force, DG COMP, European Commission under the direction of Enrique Gonzalez Diaz. She worked, among others, on the following cases: Alcan/Pechiney, Alcoa/Reynolds, AOL/Time Warner; EMI/Time Warner, Vivendi/Universal, Pernod-Ricard/Seagram, CVC/Lenzing, Canal+/RTL/Groupe Jean-Claude Darmon, etc. Since 2003 she has been a member of the Chief Economist Office at DG COMP, under the direction of Lars-Hendrik Roeller and then Damien Neven. She represented the Chief Economist, among others, on the following cases: Suez/Gaz de France, Cartes Bancaires, MasterCard, De Beers/Alrosa, Football Premier League, Blackstone/Acetex, Lagardère/Natexis/VU, Alstom, etc. She has lately accepted to become Chief Economist at the Direction Générale de la Concurrence, French Ministry of Economics and Finance.
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"The role of quantitative analysis to delineate antitrust markets: An example. Blackstone / Acetex"* Introduction On 20 January 2005, the Commission received a notification for the proposed acquisition of Acetex, an active producer in the acetyls and plastic business, by Blackstone, a U.S. (...)
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"Lagardère/Natexis/VUP: big deal in a small world"* The COMP/M.2978 Lagardère/Natexis/VUP case concerned the proposed acquisition of Editis (formerly called Vivendi Universal Publishing or VUP) by the Lagardère conglomerate. Before the transaction, Editis was the leader in the publishing, (...)
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"Investigation into possible collective dominance in the publication paper industry"* On 20 June 2000, the Commission received a notification by which the Finnish firm UPM-Kymmene proposed to merge with the German company Haindl. On the same day, the Commission received a notification of a (...)
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"The Commission’s review of the media merger wave"* The media industry involves a wide and diversified set of activities vertically related. Indeed, different players such as content providers, rights holders and content distributors all operate in the value chain from the production of content (...)
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"The Commission’s review of the media merger wave"* The media industry involves a wide and diversified set of activities vertically related. Indeed, different players such as content providers, rights holders and content distributors all operate in the value chain from the production of content (...)
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"The Commission’s review of the media merger wave"* The media industry involves a wide and diversified set of activities vertically related. Indeed, different players such as content providers, rights holders and content distributors all operate in the value chain from the production of content (...)
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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 (...)
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The proceedings of this colloquium are organised in two parts. In the first stage, the two main axes of the reform are studied: In substantive terms, the aim of the Community reform is to introduce a more economic analysis of aid in this area too. Following the presentation made by Ms Rabassa (...)
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