Andrea Amelio
DG COMP (Brussels)
Economist at the Chief Economist Team
Dr. Andrea Amelio joined DG COMP’s Chief Economist Team in September 2007. He currently works on mergers, Article 101, Article 102 and State Aid cases in a range of industries including basic industries, financial services, transport and ICT. He holds a Ph.D in industrial economics from Toulouse School of Economics. His publications are in the field of industrial organization with a special focus on collusion and bundling.
Linked authors
Andrea Cilea
DG COMP (Brussels)
Massimiliano Kadar
European Commission (Brussels)
Viktor Porubsky
DG COMP (Brussels)
Georges Siotis
University Carlos III - Department of Economics
Dimitrios Magos
European Commission (Brussels)
963 | Conferences
Articles
1455 Bulletin
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"INEOS / Solvay / JV: Yet another P(ractically) V(ery) C(omplex) merger"* In a nutshell : Natural experiments are rare in merger assessment. However, previous mergers in the PVC industry made it possible in this case to analyse the effects of consolidation on competition and prices. (...)
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"Economic background of the Microsoft/Yahoo! Case"* I. Introduction This paper offers an economic background for the analysis conducted by the Commission during the recent M.5727 Microsoft/Yahoo! transaction and complements the article ‘The Microsoft/Yahoo! Search business case’ published in (...)
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"ABF/GBI Business: coordinated effects baked again"* I. Introduction Just a few months after the Court of Justice gave a key ruling in Sony/BMG v Impala, the Commission adopted its decision in the ABF/GBI Businesscase. This was the first case since Airtoursin which the Commission intervened (...)
10295 Review
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Over the past few years, the Commission has increasingly used sophisticated tools for market definition purposes, and the use of empirical evidence is now common practice for market definition. Market definition is based on the SSNIP test that examines whether a hypothetical monopolist would (...)
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Historically, economic crises have often been accompanied by anti-competitive reactions, which have on the whole aggravated the situation, at least in the case of the United States at the beginning of the New Deal. This precedent suggests that such a reaction would be an erroneous response to (...)
