Damien Geradin

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

Online advertising is the fuel of the digital economy. Yet despite the industry’s gigantic growth, the lion’s share is captured by a handful of digital platforms, leaving a small share of revenue for publishers, further reduced by commissions charged by ad tech companies. Against this background, (...)

Interview conducted by Damien Geradin, Partner, Euclid Law, Brussels — Professor, Tilburg University. In which ways is user data important for digital platforms? Data is essential for tech companies. This was very hard to predict even ten years ago. All online services are now powered by data (...)

During the Seminar organized the 5th of november of 2009, Damien Geradin and Paul Seabright talked about standards and competition. The seminar was animed by Anne Perrot, vice-president of the Competition Authority. Created at the end of the 1980s within the Forecasting Department, the (...)

While the EU is known for imposing skyrocketing fines in cartel cases, there was for a long time very limited damages litigation. Damages claims have however started mushrooming over the past few years, with most of the “action” concentrated in a few EU Member States. This recent growth in (...)

This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22th of February 2013) was dedicated to « Personal data: Will competition law collide with privacy?». Bruno Lasserre author of the first contribution and President of the French Competition Authority provides us with the (...)

Laurence Idot. Commissioner, Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen and, if I may, dear friends, I have the great honour, but above all the great pleasure, to open this morning on behalf of the magazine Concurrencesthis half-day devoted to the place of competition in the new Treaty . I will (...)

On 5 June 2007, the Global Competition Law Centre organized in cooperation with the European Commission an event aiming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of EC competition rules with the signature of the EC Treaty in Rome. This event, which symbolically took place in the (...)

Former Commissioner Mario Monti announced at the Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in October 2003 that the Commission would conduct a re-examination of the law and practice of Article 82. Since then a huge amount of intellectual energy has been spent - both (...)