Challenges to Assumptions in Competition Law

Edited by David Bosco, Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, France and Michal S. Gal, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa, Israel

Contents:

Introduction viii

PART I NEW CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE
1 Cooperation, dependence, and eviction: how
platform-to-business coopetition relationships should be
addressed in mobile telephony ecosystems 2
Frédéric Marty and Julien Pillot
2 Technological tying: unbundling the assumptions 22
Stephen Dnes
3 Understanding the role of agricultural data on market
power in the emerging Digital Agriculture sector: a critical
analysis of the Bayer/Monsanto decision 41
Can Atik

PART II NEW CHALLENGES TO EMERGING COUNTRIES
4 Merger control in China’s digital economy: challenges and
prospects 80
Wei Han and Yajie Gao
5 The adoption of specialised competition tribunals in Latin
American countries: transplants and commonalities among them 106
Claudia O’Kane
6 Where influence lies in the international competition network 124
Christopher Townley
7 Cartels’ little helpers: a comparative study of the case law
regarding the facilitators of collusion in Europe, United
States and South America 161
Andrés Calderón

PART III NEW INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES
8 Public interest considerations in European merger control regimes 184
Oliver Budzinski and Annika Stöhr
9 Formalism, fairness and freedom of contract: abuse of
dominance in the UK courts and the business ‘Achilles
heel’ of objective justification 206
Barry J. Rodger
10 Using trade tools to counteract anticompetitive conduct
within global value chains: competition chapters in trade
agreements 238
Galyna Kostiukevych

Index