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Here's a new article by Davide on the Bayer-Monsanto merger.

Enjoy!

Bayer-Monsanto Merger: an Overview from a European Standpoint Here’s a the new article by Davide with some insights on the Bayer-Monsanto merger. 66 billion Euros. This is the figure proposed by Bayer to acquire Monsanto. Up to now , it is one of the bi…

Based on Annalisa 's interesting presentation on competition in the high-speed rail sector, here's our latest article by Delia.

Enjoy the reading and please share your thoughts!

Opening up Competition in the High-speed Rail Sector – the Italian Case We hereby attach the presentation Annalisa kindly prepared for the discussion introduced. Here follows a recapitulary article by Delia. Just like in most countries, given the investment intensive n…

Don't miss our new article on T-mobile and Sprint potential merger! Thanks to Elisa and Pietro !

T-Mobile and Sprint: the $26.5 Billion Merger Announced by Mr. Legere Our last meeting of the year dealt with a big and current question point, investigating the antitrust implications of the recently announced T-Mobile – Sprint merger (you can find Pietro’s presenta…

On Thursday the 17th a panel of eminent speakers that will debate the current challenges in the modern era in the field of antitrust will be held in N22.

We highly encourage you to participate to this stimulating event!
(more details in the flier)

Here's our latest article on our last meeting's presentation by Marco, who conducted a comparative analysis on umbrella pricing in Europe and in the US. A nice commentary by Nina follows. Take a look!

An Overview on Umbrella Pricing In our last meeting Marco delivered a very exhaustive presentation on the comparative analysis on umbrella pricing in Europe and in the US that he conducted in the enlightening paper he wrote (here…

Here is our latest post with the presentation and article respectively prepared by our members Raffaele and Elisabetta about “OECD (2017), Algorithms and Collusion: Competition Policy in the Digital Age” (link to the original paper on the website).

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Algorithms and Collusion We hereby attach the ppt Raffele prepared for the very interesting presentation he delivered for us and a recapitulary article by Elisabetta based on “OECD (2017), Algorithms and Collusion: C…

ECONOMIA DIGITALE E BIG DATA - Workshop sui possibili approcci dell’antitrust in questo nuovo ambito in rapido sviluppo

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Giovedì prossimo si terrà un interessante workshop sui Big Data e il ruolo che può ricoprire l'Antitrust in questo ambito.

Il nostro presidente onorario, prof. Sommella, sarà il moderatore insieme ad altri ospiti dell'AGCM e a professori della Bocconi!

link evento e iscrizione ---> https://www.unibocconi.it/wps/wcm/connect/ev/Eventi/Eventi+Bocconi/ECONOMIA+DIGITALE+E+BIG+DATA

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If you are interested in antitrust topics and you are eager to learn more about them, join us and get involved with a group of students who share your passion!

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At the end of June, the European Commission fined €2.4 billions Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abuse of dominant position in favoring its comparison-shopping service.

The decision comes seven years after the Commission opened a formal probe into Google's search practices and after Google's unsuccessful proposals aimed at allaying the Commission's concerns.
There are four other currently ongoing investigations regarding Google's services, including its mapping service "Google Maps" and the mobile operating system "Android".

This is the largest fine for abuse of market dominance ever imposed by the Commission and it could set a precedent that might force other internet giants to rethink part of their business models.

The company said it is reviewing the decision and also considering whether to appeal.

Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine Over Search Results The European Union’s antitrust regulator fined Alphabet’s Google a record $2.71 billion for favoring its own comparison-shopping service in search results.

Italian Antitrust authorities are investigating big data companies. Their aim is to identify possible issues regarding competition and consumers’ protection. Companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon take advantage of the huge amount of personal information they collect. Also, users are often not fully aware of the way their data is being used. Is this a privacy violation? Do big data companies have the potential to create barriers that restraint competition?

Antitrust, Agcom e Garante privacy avviano indagine sui Big data L'inchiesta conoscitiva serve per capire come tutelare i nostri profili personali, tracciati sistematicamente ogni volta che accediamo alla rete di

Today the European Commission fined Facebook €110 million for inaccurately claiming during the review of its then-proposed acquisition of WhatsApp that it could not match Facebook and WhatsApp user accounts, something the company started doing two years later.

There are two key takeaways from the Commission's decision.

First, this is but the latest case in which a Silicon Valley company is found to have violated antitrust procedures. While Margrethe Vestager, the EU Commissioner for Antitrust, has been roughly as permissive as its predecessors in terms of merger clearing, she has taken a stronger stance towards complying "with all aspects of EU mergers rules", as she remarked after the announcement of the fine.

Secondly, Facebook, whose business practices have faced relatively little scrutiny in the US, as least in connection to its takeover of WhatsApp, has to tread a much finer line in Europe, where some of the steps it has taken to more tightly integrate WhatsApp with the rest of its products had, for instance, already come under fire in Germany, which prohibited any sharing of information between the messaging service and its parent company.

Facebook Slapped With EU Fine Over WhatsApp Deal Facebook was fined $122.7 million by the EU’s antitrust regulator for misleading authorities over the acquisition of its messaging unit WhatsApp, firing a warning shot to other companies.