Our services
Economic support to filings, answers to requests for information and legal submissions to competition authorities.
Analysis of demand and supply substitution and application of the SSNIP test for market definition purposes. Selection, gathering and presentation of relevant material evidence.
- Price correlation, price convergence and price dispersion studies, econometric estimation of elasticities of substitution.
- Analysis of marketing studies, internal documents of companies.
- Transport costs studies.
Application of industrial economics to market analysis. Selection, gathering and presentation of relevant material evidence. Our experience includes:
- Collusion in oligopolistic markets.
- Rising rival’s costs.
- First mover advantages
- Economic incentives determining strategies of entry.
- Network externalities and standards.
- Predation (predatory pricing, financial predation, exclusionary practices).
- Cost oriented pricing and discounts.
- Bilateral markets.
- Access pricing.
- Assessment of merger specific efficiencies.
Assessment of regulatory risks at early stages of mergers and acquisitions. Design and assessment of possible remedies.
Assesment of regulatory risks arising from the commercial practices of firms.
- Analysis of compatibility of companies’ commercial practices with competition law and assessment of regulatory risks involved.
- Econometric analysis of discounts granted to clients.
- Recommendations to reduce risks of sanctions under competition law.
- Definition of a regulatory strategy for the incumbent in a sector undergoing liberalization.
Identification and quantification of damages arising from competition law infringements.
- Quantification of damages from econometric estimates of cross price elasticities.
- Cash flow discounts to calculate economic value of exploiting a TV thematic channel.
- Analysis of causality between damages and competition law infringements.