Topic 2: Issues in Article 82

Program

The economic framework for thinking about dominance

Issues arising from the EC Discussion Paper on the reform of Article 82

Creating usable rules that allow regulators to make economically intelligent decisions in reasonable timescales

Two topics of current development

   Rebates

   Excessive pricing

 

Reading

Chapter 7 of Motta, M.   2204.   Competition Policy:Theory and Practice   Cambridge University Press

 

Chapter 6 of Bishop, S. and Walker, M.   2002.   The Economics of EC Competition Law   Sweet & Maxwell (second edition)

 

Chapters 7 and 12 of O'Donoghue, R. and Padilla, A.J.   2006.   The Law and Economics of Article 82 EC   Hart Publishing

 

More advanced textbooks

Cabral, L.   2000. Introduction to Industrial Organisation , MIT Press (2000) (chapters 5, 9, 14, 15)

 

Church, J. and Ware, R. 2000. Industrial Organization: A Strategic Approach McGraw Hill, (chapters 2, 4 and 14)

 

Guidelines

DG Competition.   2005.   Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82 of the Treaty to Exclusionary Abuses   Brussels

 

Articles

Evans, D. and Padilla, A-J. 2005 “Excessive prices: using economics to define administrable legal rules”   Journal of Competition Law and Economics

 

Kühn, K-U, Stillman, R and Caffarra C.   2005.   “Economic theories of bundling and their policy implications in abuse cases: an assessment in light of the Microsoft case” European Competition Journal

 

Motta, M. and de Streel, A. 2003   “Exploitative and exclusionary excessive prices in EU law” in Ehlermann and Atanasiu, What is an abuse of a dominant position? , Hart Publisher European Competition Law Annual

 

Nalebuff, B.   2003.   “Bundling, tying and portfolio effects” DTI Economics Discussion Paper 1

 

Office of Fair Trading.   2005.   “Selective price cuts and fidelity rebates” Economic Discussion Paper OFT 804

 

Vickers, J. 2005 “Abuse of market power” Economic Journal

 

Cases:    BA-Virgin (Case COMP/34.780 and ECJ Case C-95/04   

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              Helsingborg (Case COMP/36.568)

 

              Attheraces (Appeal to the UK Court of Appeal EWCA Civ

              38 (02 February 2007) Appeal

 

              Mittal Steel South Africa (South African Competition

              Tribunal Case 13/CR/Feb04)

 

              Microsoft (Case COMP/37.792)