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Critical Considerations for Analyses of Anticompetitive Effects Outlined by Managing Principal Antoine Chapsal at Concurrences Conference
Managing Principal Antoine Chapsal participated in a panel discussion on the future of the effects-based approach to assessing allegedly anticompetitive conduct by the European Commission (EC) and other national competition authorities (NCAs). The panel, presented at the Concurrences New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference, was titled “Establishing Abuses of Dominance: Is the Effects-Based Approach Administrable?”
Dr. Chapsal opened the discussion by summarizing some of the pitfalls of the effects-based approach and describing how economic theory can help the EC and NCAs navigate potential analytical errors. He outlined some specific techniques that may be used to assess anticompetitive concerns and emphasized the need for caution, facts, and economic data in such assessments. Dr. Chapsal’s co-panelists explored several related topics, including whether the EC should modify the effects-based approach and how such an approach could lead to less legal uncertainty.
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Antoine Chapsal
Managing PrincipalDr. Chapsal is an economist who specializes in empirical and theoretical industrial organization. He has provided economic expertise in a large number of high-profile cases involving mergers, cartels, information exchanges, abuses of dominant positions, regulation, intellectual property matters, and damages quantifications. Recent examples include the Lafarge/Holcim and Fnac/Darty mergers, as well as airfreight, cathode ray tube, and elevator cartel cases. Dr. Chapsal has also assisted various firms in designing optimized pricing strategies and dealing with policy issues. His reports have been presented to the competition authorities of France, Germany, Austria, and South Africa; the European Commission; the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf; and the Court of Appeals, Conseil d’Etat, Conseil constitutionnel, and Tribunal of Commerce of Paris.
Prior to joining Analysis Group, Dr. Chapsal founded MAPP, a Paris- and Brussels-based economic consultancy, which was acquired by KPMG in 2018. Previously, he worked in a US competition economics consultancy. Dr. Chapsal regularly publishes articles on competition economics, on subjects ranging from the econometric analysis of cartels to geographic market delineation and exclusionary strategies. He is an affiliated professor at the Sciences Po Department of Economics and a member of the CESifo academic research network.