Tort Law is not harmonised at a European level. Substantive and procedural regulations vary substantially across EU Member States in most of the facets and dimensions of damages actions. These differences derive, amongst other causes, from different legal traditions. However, significant efforts...

Insurance companies and insurance activities are subject to profuse industry regulation, justified by potential market failures, but this does not exclude the applicability to them of Competition Law. Nevertheless, almost all legal systems worldwide foresee, one way or another, significant...

We study empirically the determinants of public tomb prices in a sample of Spanish towns. We document strong evidence in favor that cemeteries act as local monopolies that use second degree price discrimination to maximize profits. Additionally we report that local cemetery prices react to...

Almost a year ago, and after substantial debate and a long legislative process, the reform of Spanish competition regulation was completed. The new Competition Act, which came into force on September 1, 2007, supersedes the previous Act of 1989 and significantly transforms the Spanish system for...

One of the contributions of the Chicago School to economic theory is that of underlining the importance of compliance costs on entrepreneurial activity and economic growth. From a business perspective, complying with general regulations and administrative red tape is a costly burden that may...

This paper constructs several objective indicators of regulatory intensity in the context of the Spanish decentralization since 1978. Our aim is to develop a quantitative measure of the levels of regulatory intensity set by different regions in Spain. The dynamic nature of the decentralization...

The recent Judgment of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 1 March 2011, in case C-236/09 (Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL and others v. Conseil des Ministres) imposes an absolute rejection of the use of sex as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and...

This short note on methodology has been extracted from my PhD thesis, which deals with the relationship between public procurement and competition policy at the EU level (a reworked version has been recently published as Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules, Oxford: Hart Publishing,...