This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the fifth edition of the Seminar on Competition Law and Economics, sponsored and organised by the Rafael del Pino Foundation and held at its headquarters, and revised after appropriate discussion.
The theme chosen for the 2008 edition was Horizontal agreements between companies. The choice of topic was largely based on the opinion of the President of the National Competition Commission and the particular relevance of these agreements, especially in the context of the economic crisis and the strengthening of the Spanish antitrust system.
The topics covered and their authors are:
- The new Law on the Defence of Competition and horizontal agreements between companies (Luis Berenguer Fuster)
- An Economic Perspective on Collusion (Enrique Cañizares and Daniel Domínguez)
- International cartels (Antonio Creus)
- Agreements, decisions and other explicit conduct (Ricardo Alonso Soto)
- Concerted and consciously parallel practices (Helmut Brokelmann)
- Another "type" of collusive behaviour (Inmaculada Gutiérrez Carrizo).
- Pricing and other terms and conditions of commercial transactions (Juan Manuel Fernández López)
- Typology of horizontal restraints: output limitation, market sharing, customer allocation and discriminatory practices (Juan Jiménez Laiglesia and José María Jiménez Laiglesia).
- Exchanges of information (Cani Fernández)
- Economic analysis of collusion in auction markets: bid rigging (Fernando Jiménez Latorre and Javier Coronado Saleh).
- The National Competition Commission's new investigative powers (Clara Guzmán Zapater)
- The limits to the inspection powers of the National Competition Commission (Francisco Cantos Baquedano and Salomé Santos Lorenzo).
- The sanctioning procedure and its guarantees (Luis Ortiz Blanco and Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo).
- Judicial review of administrative decisions on cartels (Santiago Soldevila Fragoso)
- Spanish and EU clemency programmes (Patricia Vidal Martínez)
- An Economic Perspective on Leniency Policy (Jorge Padilla, Alejandro Requejo and Nadine Watson)
- The Community settlement procedure for cartel cases (María Luisa Tierno Centella)