CCRED MASTERCLASS: Abuse of dominance

Price-cost tests for conditional rebates: insights from European cases

by
Professor Chiara Fumagalli

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Background

Join Professor Chiara Fumagalli as she delivers a Masterclass on the economic tests for conditional rebates in Abuse of Dominance cases. Prof. Fumagalli will discuss key  European cases, such as Intel, ZF Meritor and Qualcomm, providing valuable insights for application in abuse of dominance cases in Africa.

This Masterclass forms part of the lecture series in the Advanced Economics of Competition and Regulation module in the MCom in Competition and Economic Regulation programme at UJ.

Prof. Chiara Fumagalli is the Avv. Giovanni Agnelli endowed Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bocconi.  Chiara has taught at a number of leading universities as well as on the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Intensive Course on Competition Economics. She published a book in 2018, 'Exclusionary Practices – The Economics of Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance’ (with M. Motta and C. Calcagno), Cambridge University Press. The book develops a general analytical framework to identify clear and workable criteria that can guide antitrust agencies in analysing exclusionary practices and is a key text for the MCom programme.