RBB Economics (London)

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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Articles

2316 Bulletin

Benoît Durand The German Competition Authority gets confirmation by the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf to halves the fines to the cement cartel based on the result of an independent economic analysis (Cement Cartel)

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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. (...)

Benoît Durand, Valérie Rabassa The European Commission receives a notification for the proposed acquisition of a producer in the acetyls and plastic business by a U.S. private merchant-banking company addressing the issue of the role of quantitative analysis to delineate antitrust markets (Blackstone/Acetex)

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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 (...)

Benoît Durand, François-Xavier Rouxel, Guillaume Loriot The EU Commission approves, subject to remedies, a merger in the medical devices market giving a practical example of the use of quantitative analyses in merger control (GE Medical Systems / Instrumentarium)

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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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Benoît Durand Merger simulation is back : Should we worry about it ?

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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 (...)

Benoît Durand Two-sided markets : Yin and Yang, a review of recent UK mergers

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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 (...)

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244ème
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