Gunnar Niels
Oxera (Oxford)
Managing Partner
Gunnar leads Oxera’s work in competition policy and litigation, with more than 25 years’ experience in the field covering mergers, agreements, abuse of dominance, damages and state aid. He has advised companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Liberty Global, Facebook, ConocoPhillips and Mastercard, as well as government bodies and the European Commission. Gunnar has provided expert testimony before courts in a range of jurisdictions, including the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Spain, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand, and has presented at oral hearings in European Commission inquiries. Author of Economics for Competition Lawyers (Oxford University Press, second edition, 2016), Gunnar is on the board of Markt en Mededinging, has been guest editor for the Antitrust Bulletin, and has published in many leading journals. Before joining Oxera in 1999, Gunnar was deputy head of the Economics Directorate at Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists.
Distinctions
Auteurs associés
Roberto Alimonti
Oxera (Rome)
Joseph Bell
Oxera (Oxford)
Jan Bouckaert
University of Antwerp
Hélène Bourguignon
Oxera (Paris)
Avantika Chowdhury
Oxera (London)
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Articles
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The European Commission is consulting on updating its 1997 Market Definition Notice, which provides important guidance on identifying relevant markets in competition cases. One hotly debated topic is defining markets for two-sided platforms. We discuss some common misunderstandings on this (...)
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In March 2018 the Court of Amsterdam issued a verdict in a long-running abuse of dominance case involving funda, the largest property website in the Netherlands. The Court found funda to be dominant, but did not consider the company’s discriminatory listing of rival estate agents to be (...)
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1 Introduction Damages actions under competition law have become a mainstream in many EU Member States. Competition practices in law firms and economics consultancies trumpet their expertise in damages alongside mergers, cartels and abuse of dominance. National judges are increasingly aware of (...)
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Introduction If the main objective of competition law is to promote consumer welfare, prohibiting excessive prices surely makes sense. Or does it ? The answer to this question is surprisingly complex and controversial, for a host of practical, legal, economic and ideological reasons. US (...)
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In Bookmakers’ Afternoon Greyhound Services Ltd v Amalgamated Racing Ltd (2008)(BAGS v AMRAC), the UK High Court dismissed allegations of anti-competitive conduct by a new sports broadcaster part-owned by racecourses. BAGS v AMRAC is one of the significant private actions in recent years (...)
3988 Revue
168
Cette rubrique Livres recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)
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This article reproduces the papers delivered at the second round-table at the Belgian Competition Day in Brussels on October 21, 2010. Dr. Gunnar Niels, author of the fist contribution, presents the report Oxera prepared for the European Commission. He also emphasises the importance of training (...)
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Ce mini-symposium propose un bref état des lieux de l’évaluation économique des dommages occasionnés par des pratiques anticoncurrentielles. Combinant des perspectives d’autorités de concurrence, d’auteurs académiques et de praticiens, il témoigne de l’existence de principes établis et de méthodes bien (...)
Livres
Prix
290,00 €
2018 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
Date
7 septembre 2017
Prix
290,00 €
Prix
250,00 €
2015 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
Date
30 novembre 2015
Prix
250,00 €
