Chillin'Competition

Just found now, whilst doing research on energy markets:

“The European Court has stated that dominance can be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, where a company has a market share persistently over 50%. EU competition law takes a 25% share of the market as evidence of Significant Market Power“.

Not seen it? Read again (this time in bold):

“The European Court has stated that dominance can be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, where a company has a market share persistently over 50%. EU competition law takes a 25% share of the market as evidence of Significant Market Power“.

Shocking misreading of the EU case-law and almost certainly a crap erroneous statement from an economic standpoint.

Now, let’s just put theory into practice and  follow Prof Simon’s recommendation. This shameful, unfortunate, interpretation of the case-law can be found in a Report entitled  “Conditions for truly competitive Gas markets in the EU” prepared by Energy Markets Ltd.  (2005) for the British Department of Trade and Industry (see p.12).

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PS1: Trying to turn the findings of my Phd into empirical recommendations, I am currently drafting a paper on abuse of collective dominance in the energy sector. Obviously, input, views, comments, feelings, are most welcome.