Gönenç Gürkaynak: Innovation Paradox in Merger Control | New Trends In Competition Law | Digital

Описание: Av. Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, Founding Partner of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law, Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL, Faculty of Laws
While the formal reason for our meeting is related to the release of Gönenç Gürkaynak's new book ‘Innovation Paradox in Merger Control’ (published by Concurrences, with testimonials written inter alia by Profs. Eleanor Fox, William Kovacic, Paul Nihoul, Ioannis Lianos, Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, Ian Forrester and many others) – we have covered much wider spectrum of topics.
We also addressed the following issues:
• elasticity of law in general and merger control in particular: is it a bug, a feature or something else?
• “innovation paradox”: what is so paradoxical in the phenomenon of innovation in the context of merger review?
• the futuristic nature of analysis in merger control: susceptibility to two types of errors – under- and over-enforcement
• is it the case that the approach to mergers in recent past was more homogeneous than now? Is it good, bad or something else?
• are merger cases getting more technical and less predictable?
• ecosystem theory of harm: using it as a sword and as a shield
• is it the case that even the most mature jurisdictions often get innovation theories of harm differently, and what are the implications?
• is the incentive to invest/innovate a weak argument in markets where innovation is present ipso facto?
• instrumentalising & measuring the counterfactual
• divestiture as a remedy
• the views about the DMA
• relationship between the DMA and antitrust
• self-management and management of large team
• recommendations to students

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