TranscriptBelow you will find this year’s Best Articles, as well as a selection of video submissions from the winners discussing their award-winning articles (to be updated regularly):
Antitrust Writing Awards Academic Articles Winners
General Antitrust
Scott Hemphill, Tim Wu
Concerted Practices
Priority-Setting as a Double-Edged Sword: How Modernisation Strengthened the Role of Public Policy
Or Brook
Unilateral Conduct
Dominance and market definition in the pharmaceutical industry following the ECJ Paroxetine judgment
Damien Neven, Georges Siotis
Mergers
Stefan Thomas
Intellectual Property
FRAND Licensing Levels under EU Law
Jean-Sébastien Borghetti, Igor Nikolic, Nicolas Petit
Private Enforcement
Rebating Antitrust Fines to Encourage Private Damages Negotiations
Winand Emons, Severin Lenhard
Cross-Border Issues
Carsten Koenig
Procedure
Equitable Monetary Relief Under the FTC Act: An Opportunity for a Marginal Improvement
James Cooper, Bruce Kobayashi
Asian Antitrust
State Interest and the State-Centered Approach to Competition Law in China
Wendy Ng
Digital
Digital Platforms and Antitrust
Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall van Alstyne
Economics
Mergers, Entry, and Consumer Welfare
Peter Caradonna, Nathan Miller, Gloria Sheu
Antitrust Writing Awards Business Articles Winners
General Antitrust
Buckle Up: The Global Future of Antitrust Enforcement and Regulation
James Keyte, Frederic Jenny, Eleanor Fox
Concerted Practices
A Note on Antitrust, Labor, and ’No Cold Call’ Agreements in Silicon Valley
Russell Pittman
Unilateral Conduct
Badmouthing Your Competitor’s Products: When Does Denigration Become an Antitrust Issue?
Frederik Haugsted, Morten Nissen
Mergers
Jimmy Moore, Timothy Snyder
Intellectual Property
Antitrust Treatment of Acceleration Provisions in Hatch-Waxman Settlements
Cristina Fernandez, Michael L. Keeley
Private Enforcement
Developing a Global Settlement Strategy
Stephen Crosswell, Mark Hamer, Nicolas Kredel
Cross-Border Issues
Nicholas Gaglio, Lindsey Strang, Lukas Aberle, Susan Zhu, Christian Steinle
Procedure
EU Competition Law and EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: An Evolving Partnership
Jacquelyn MacLennan, Bram Vereecken, Aron Senoner
Asian Antitrust
Interpretation of Ten Highlights of Platform Economy Antitrust Guidelines
Cheng Liu, Audrey Yumeng Li, Lushen Hong, Nick Torre
Digital
Giving Away Our Data For Free Is a Market Failure
Nicholas Economides, Ioannis Lianos
Economics
Understanding The Econometric Tools of Antitrust – With No Math!
Michael Cragg, Loren Smith, Charlie Gibbons
BEST SOFT LAWS
General Antitrust
Antitrust compliance programmes guidelines
Comisión Nacional de los mercados y la competencia
Concerted Practices
US Department of Justice
Unilateral Conduct
Buyer power enforcement guidelines
Competition Commission South Africa
Mergers
US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission
Private Enforcement
European Commission
Cross-Border Issues
UK Exit from the EU: Guidance on the functions of the CMA under the Withdrawal Agreement
UK Competition and Markets Authority
Procedure
Guidelines on Competition Compliance Programs
Indecopi
Asian Antitrust
Guidelines on Access to Evidence
Korea Fair Trade Commission
Digital
Sponsored ranking: Effects on consumer welfare
Authority for Consumers & Markets
Economics
Modelling the macroeconomic impact of competition policy
European Commission, DG COMP
BEST STUDENT PAPER
Reconceiving Big Tech: Decentralizing the Industry to Align Incentives and Maximize Total Welfare
Todd Davies
READERS’ CHOICES
Academic Article
Monopolization Standards in US Competition Law: Evolution and Evaluation
Ivana Rakić
Business Article
No-Poach Antitrust Standard Unclear In Franchising
Matthew Geyer, William Reiss
Soft Law
Guidelines on Competition Compliance Programs
Indecopi
Student Paper
Vasiliki Fasoula