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Next Gen Lunch & Learn With RBB Economics: The Basics of Horizontal Mergers

18 Mar 2025

Location: 12:00-1:00pm UK Time (Zoom)
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Next Gen Lunch & Learn With RBB Economics: The Basics of Horizontal Mergers

Highlights

Aimed at our Next Gen audience, we are delighted to invite you to the second in a series of webinars on the fundamentals of competition economics relevant to antitrust law practice. The series covers core economic concepts applicable to common types of competition cases, as well as incorporating recent developments in competition law and policy.

This second webinar will focus on horizontal mergers. Our speaker Paul Stoddart will explain the basic economic logic along with real-life examples and explore how to empirically assess unilateral effects.  Topics covered include:

  • Basic principles of unilateral effects in horizontal mergers
  • Mergers involving homogenous products
  • Mergers involving differentiated products
  • Empirical issues in the assessment of unilateral effects
Paul Stoddart
Principal
RBB Economics

Paul is a Principal in RBB’s London office. He has worked extensively on matters before the European Commission, as well as various national competition authorities and courts, including the UK Competition and Markets Authority and Competition Appeal Tribunal.    

Paul has advised on damages litigation, abuse of dominance, and merger cases raising both horizontal and vertical concerns, including Essilor/Luxottica and Comcast/Sky. He has also advised clients, such as Alphabet (Google) and Royal Mail, on investigations of alleged anti-competitive agreements.  Paul regularly writes on a range of competition issues and his publications have featured in leading journals including European Competition Law Review and Management Science. Paul has also contributed to reports for competition authorities including “Cost pass-through: theory, measurement, and potential policy implications” (2014) published by the Office of Fair Trading.


Paul Stoddart
Paul Stoddart Principal
RBB Economics

Agenda

11:55am
Audience Log On
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Paul Stoddart - Principal - RBB Economics
12:05pm
Next Gen Lunch & Learn With RBB Economics: The Basics of Horizontal Mergers
Speakers:
Paul Stoddart - Principal - RBB Economics
12:45pm
Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Paul Stoddart - Principal - RBB Economics

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