Economics and the Enforcement of Exclusionary Abuse

The European Commission (EC) is about to issue Guidelines on exclusionary abuses. This presentation will discuss how economics can and should be used to inform a sound and effects-based approach in the enforcement of Article 102 TFEU. 

In particular, Professor Motta shall discuss: in which circumstances the EC could rely on (rebuttable) presumptions of harm; when price-cost tests are meaningful and when they are not; which limiting principles should be used for self-preferencing; and what to make of the essentiality of the input as a requirement for vertical foreclosure cases.