Penelope Papandropoulos
DG COMP (Brussels)
Coordinator state aid at Chief Economist team
Since 2007, Dr Penelope Papandropoulos has been working at the European Commission in the Directorate General for Competition (in the team of the Chief Economist). The Chief Economist Team provides independent economic advice to the EU Commissioner for competition and undertakes economic analysis to guide the decision-making process for competition cases and policy developments (merger analysis, antitrust and state aid cases). Between 2007 and 2014, she predominantly worked on merger cases, contributing to high profile merger cases such as Google/DoubleClick, Fortis/ABN Amro, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, BHP Billiton / Rio Tinto, Western Digital/Hitachi, Lufthansa/Brussels Airlines, UPS/TNT and many others. In 2014, she worked for a few months as a member of the cabinet of the Commissioner for Competition, Joaquin Almunia, advising predominantly on antitrust and merger cases in the energy and IT sectors. Currently, she is coordinating the work of the Chief Economist Team in state aid matters. Prior to working at the Commission, Dr Penelope Papandropoulos was for several years an economic consultant at Charles River Associates (CRA International), and previously Lexecon. Dr Penelope Papandropoulos holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Auteurs associés
Raphaël De Coninck
CRA International (Brussels)
Julia Brockhoff
DG COMP (Brussels)
Peter Eberl
European Commission (Brussels)
Vera Pozzato
European Commission (Brussels)
Carl-Christian Buhr
European Commission (Brussels)
Bertrand Jehanno
SGAE - Secrétariat Général des Affaires Européennes (Paris)
Susan Hinchliffe
General Electric (London)
Stéphane Hautbourg
Gide Loyrette Nouel (Brussels)
965 | Conférences
Articles
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"Google/DoubleClick : The first test for the Commission’s nonhorizontal merger guidelines"* I. Introduction The Google/DoubleClickmerger generated considerable interest as it concerned the ubiquitous search engine that most Europeans use in their daily lives. From a competition policy (...)
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Le 28 novembre 2007, la Commission a adopté ses lignes directrices sur les concentrations non-horizontales. Cet article passe en revue deux fusions récentes ayant soulevé des questions non-horizontales et illustre la façon dont ces lignes directrices sont appliquées en pratique. En particulier, (...)
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Introduction 1. The debate on whether to and how to reform Article 82 has been raging for some time now. The Article 82 Discussion Paper published in December 2005 (re)launched the debate on the objectives of Article 82 (i.e. the protection of the process of competition rather than (...)
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Au cours des deux dernières années, l’application de l’Article 82 à la discrimination en prix a été débattue avec intensité tant par les économistes que la communauté juridique. Cet article passe en revue la théorie économique relative à la discrimination en prix et tente d’en tirer des recommandations (...)
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Le rôle croissant de l’analyse économique dans les enquêtes européennes de concurrence (en particulier les fusions) n’est plus à démontrer tant au niveau européen qu’au niveau des autorités nationales de concurrence. Cet article passe en revue quelques décisions récentes illustrant les derniers (...)
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Trois ans après la publication des lignes directrices de 2004 sur l’appréciation des concentrations horizontales, la Commission s’apprête à publier un projet de lignes directrices sur l’évaluation des concentrations non-horizontales. Ces derniers mois, par le biais de présentations, la Commission a (...)
