Benoît Durand
RBB Economics (London)
Partner
Benoît has been a partner at RBB Economics since 2008. Prior to joining RBB, he was Director of Economic Analysis at the UK’s Competition Commission, now part of the CMA, and a member of the Chief Economist Team at DG Competition, European Commission. Benoît was previously based in Washington DC, USA, where he worked in private practice. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College, USA. His experience spans numerous competition investigations in mergers, abuse of dominant position, horizontal and vertical agreements as well as state aid. He also acted as economic expert to quantify damages in numerous litigations.
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20111 | Évènements
Articles
2316 Bulletin
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In 2001, the Bundeskartellamt conducted a series of dawn raids and discovered the existence of a cartel in the cement industry in Germany. Cement producers had divided the market, reaching agreements on sales quotas. This cartel had been operating at least since the beginning of the 1990s. (...)
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"The role of quantitative analysis to delineate antitrust markets : An example. Blackstone / Acetex"* Introduction On 20 January 2005, the Commission received a notification for the proposed acquisition of Acetex, an active producer in the acetyls and plastic business, by Blackstone, a (...)
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"GE/Instrumentarium : a practical example of the use of quantitative analyses in merger control"* On 2 September 2003, the European Commission approved, subject to conditions, the acquisition by General Electric Medical Systems (‘GE’) of the Finnish firm Instrumentarium. The Commission was (...)
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Interview réalisée par Benoît Durand, Partner, RBB Economics, Bruxelles/Paris The most important merger decisions Between 2014 and 2019, you were deputy director-general for mergers, but your experience with merger control starts well before that, notably when you were a member of the (...)
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Tommaso Valletti, Chief Competition Economist de la DG COMP depuis septembre 2016, explique le rôle du chief competition economist (CEE) et l’interaction nécessaire entre l’économie et le droit de la concurrence dans cet interview réalisé par Benoît Durand, RBB Economics, Brussels. The (...)
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Dans des décisions récentes portant sur des industries de biens de consommation courante, la Commission européenne s’est appuyée sur des modèles de simulation pour prédire l’effet probable des concentrations horizontales. Est-ce le début d’une nouvelle tendance ? Il existe différentes variétés (...)
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Pour définir les marchés pertinents, il n’existe pas d’alternative crédible au test du monopole hypothétique. Même si le test est difficile à appliquer, emprunter d’autres avenues comme celle préconisée par l’Autorité de la concurrence dans ses lignes directrices relatives au contrôle des (...)
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1. L’ADLC s’intéresse beaucoup à la grande distribution. Récemment, elle s’est auto-saisie pour enquêter sur la pratique du “category management” entre les opérateurs de la grande distribution alimentaire et certains de leurs fournisseurs. Par le passé, d’autres autorités de la concurrence se (...)
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Economic literature is warning us that applying a one-sided market logic in two sided markets is bound to generate some errors when assessing the extent of competition between firms. This article reviews some recent UK merger decisions in two-sided market industries and found that in all (...)
Statistiques
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Classement de l'auteur
489ème
En nombre de contributions
244ème
En nombre total de visites
1442ème
En nombre moyen de visites