April 28, 2015

Competition in Latin America
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Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) has announced the start of a probe into possible antitrust violations among the country's airline operators.


 

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Interview with Carlos Mena, Chief Prosecutor for Mexico's Federal Economic Competition Commission

Carlos Mena, Chief Prosecutor for Mexico's competition authority, has shared with CPI Latin America his insights into the Supreme Court's latest ruling on a controversial Social Security scandal, the strengths and challenges of his new Investigative division, and the ins and outs of how an investigation is carried out.
 
 
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The recent US regulation on net neutrality has been preceded by a heated debate. Net neutrality debate is multisided covering from pure engineering or economic aspects to deep-rooted discussions on democracy and free speech. Tommaso Valletti offers an economic framework for the analysis of net neutrality demystifying the common identification between unequal treatment and consumer harm. Valletti sees that some forms of discrimination can enlarge the set of strategies of Internet providers and content providers to the benefit of end users. 

In the United States, two of the most significant characteristics of the "new" antitrust approach have been a more intense focus on innovative companies in high-tech industries and a weakening of longstanding concerns that erroneous antitrust interventions will hinder economic growth. But this focus is dangerous, and these concerns should not be dismissed so lightly. In this article the authors offer a comprehensive cautionary tale in the context of a detailed factual, legal and economic analysis of the next Microsoft: the theoretical, but perhaps imminent, enforcement action against Google.

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