Standard of proof and abuse of dominant position: the as-efficient competitor test
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Hans Zenger
DG COMP (Brussels)
Member of the Chief Economist Team
Hans Zenger is Deputy Coordinator Mergers at Chief Economist Team in DG Competition at the European Commission. Previously, he was Vice President at CRA. While at CRA, Hans provided expert economic advice in a large number of complex competition investigations, including Visa, Intel, Deutsche Bahn/EWS, Réel/Rio Tinto Alcan, Intel/McAfee and Thomson Reuters. He was also closely involved in the defense of various Commission decisions before the General Court, including E.ON/GDF, MasterCard and REWE/Adeg. Hans has contributed to major policy initiatives at the Commission, including the Vertical Restraints Guidelines and the Article 82 Guidance Paper, and was member of a working group that advised the Director General on the development of European competition policy. Hans holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Munich and an M.Sc. in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He regularly speaks at competition law conferences and has taught competition policy to both lawyers and economists at universities including ENSEA Paris, University College London and the University of Munich. Hans has published extensively on the application of economics to competition law in journals including the Antitrust Law Journal and the Journal of Competition Law & Economics.
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Benno Buehler
CRA International (Munich)
David Bosco
University Aix-Marseille
Frédéric Marty
CNRS (Paris)
Stratigoula Sakellariou
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MAPP (Paris)
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Standard of proof and abuse of dominant position: the as-efficient competitor test
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