News and publications

27 | 01 | 2012

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16 | 12 | 2011

Differentiated Interchange Fees

by Hans Zenger, accepted for publication in Economics Letters

25 | 11 | 2011

Choice of Enforcement Procedures under Legal Uncertainty

by Yannis Katsoulacos, Senior Consultant with CRA, and David Ulph

31 | 05 | 2011

Les échanges d'informations

by Laurent Flochel, published in Concurrences: Revue des droits de la concurrence, No. 2-2011

15 | 12 | 2011

Patent Acquisition, Patent Wars and Technology Transfer: A Growing Area of Interest for Competition Policy

Company strategies in the area of intellectual property rights have long been almost exclusively the province of IP Law. This is rapidly changing. Competition authorities are having a closer look at how companies acquire IPRs, and how they enforce the IP rights that they hold. The European Commi... More

07 | 12 | 2011

CRA's Annual Conference takes place in Brussels

CRA's annual conference on "Economic Developments in European Competition Policy" took place in Brussels on 7 December. The programme included four Chief Economists from major European agencies (DG Competition, the UK Competition Com... More

24 | 11 | 2011

Competition Commission clears BATS/Chi-X Europe merger

Alan Overd and Rameet Sangha advised BATS Trading Limited, owned by BATS Global Markets Inc, on its anticipated acquisition of Chi-X Europe Limited. Both companies operate Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) which enable market parti... More

25 | 10 | 2011

Competition Commission provisionally clears Kerry/Headland merger

The Competition Commission has provisionally cleared the completed acquisition of Headland's frozen ready meals (FRM) business by Kerry Foods. Before the merger in January 2011, Kerry and Headland were the two largest suppliers of own-label and contract-packed FRMs to UK customers (typically supe... More