Gildas de Muizon

L’innovation déplace aujourd’hui les positions établies d’un nombre croissant d’entreprises et d’industries. Les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour souligner la puissance de ce phénomène : innovation drastique, innovation déstabilisante, innovation perturbatrice, innovation radicale, innovation de (...)

The De minimis communication of the European Commission defines under which conditions agreements between firms will not be considered to restrict competition in a sensitive way. The three contributions in this article discuss its effectiveness in promoting legal security for firms, especially (...)

Different tests have been proposed by the economic literature and used by competition authorities in order to detect anticompetitive conducts. No single test is suitable for every type of practice and the economic theory can help in choosing the most relevant one. I. A middle way between the (...)

The question of remedies, their design, their effectiveness, their implementation and their monitoring is a challenging issue for both the competition authorities and merging companies. The articles in this issue transcribe some interventions made at the recent conference organized by (...)

The 1997 Notice on market definition is one of the oldest guidance notices adopted by the Commission in the area of competition law. Although its main principles appear still valid and uncontroversial, there is arguably scope for further guidance in controversial areas such as the (...)

This set of three papers is derived from the training session organized by the Concurrences Review that was held on 29th March 2012 in Paris. For Gildas de Muizon, Economist and author of the second contribution, the market power of supermarkets must be assessed locally. For this it is (...)