1. Personal Information
Name: COLOMA, Germán.
Nationality: Argentine.
Date of birth:
Marital status: married.
Address: Av. Cordoba
374 Piso 7 –
Telephone: (54-11) 6314-3000.
Fax: (54-11) 4314-1654
E-mail: gcoloma@cema.edu.ar
2. Education
Undergraduate:
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Public Accountant,
Graduate:
- Master in Public Policy,
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella,
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Master of Arts in Economics,
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Specialist in Financial Management,
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Ph.D. in Economics,
3. Published Work
3.1.
Books
Análisis económico del derecho privado y regulatorio [Economic Analysis of
Private and Regulatory Law], 306 pgs; Buenos Aires, Ciudad Argentina, 2001.
Defensa de la competencia: análisis económico comparado [Antitrust: A
Comparative Economic Analysis], 1st edition, 438 pgs; Buenos Aires, Ciudad
Argentina, 2003.
Economía de la organización industrial [Industrial
Organization Economics], 390 pgs; Buenos Aires, Temas, 2005.
Defensa de la competencia: análisis económico comparado [Antitrust: A
Comparative Economic Analysis], 2nd edition, 571 pgs; Buenos Aires, Ciudad
Argentina, 2009.
3.2. Articles
published in refereed journals
“Productividad
global de los factores: teoría y aplicación al caso de una empresa pública
argentina” [Global Factor Productivity: Theory and Application to the Case of
an Argentine Public Enterprise]; Económica
(La Plata), vol 36, pp 21-51, 1990 (with summary in English).
“Diferenciación
de productos y poder de mercado” [Product Differentiation and Market Power]; Económica (La Plata), vol 44, pp 3-27,
1998 (with summary in English).
“Socialismo
de mercado, marginalismo y empresa pública: síntesis y puntos de contacto”
[Market Socialism, Marginal Cost Pricing and Public Enterprise: Overview and
Connections]; Desarrollo Económico,
vol 39, No 153, pp 31-44, 1999 (with summary in English).
“Product
Differentiation and Market Power in the California Gasoline Market”; Journal of Applied Economics, vol 2, No
1, pp 1-27, 1999.
“Capital
Accumulation and Income Distribution as the Outcome of a Dynamic Game”; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
vol 23, pp 1177-1196, 1999.
“An Economic Analysis of
Horizontal Property”; International
Review of Law and Economics, vol 21, pp 343-354, 2001.
“Las funciones económicas
“Un modelo
integrado de depredación y colusión” [An Integrated Model of Predation and
Collusion]; Cuadernos de Economía,
vol 39, No 116, pp 123-133, 2002 (with summary in English).
“The Effect of the
Repsol-YPF Merger on the Argentine Gasoline Market”; Review of Industrial Organization, vol 21, No 4, pp 399-418, 2002.
“Price Discrimination and
Price Dispersion in the Argentine Gasoline Market”; International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol 10, pp
169-178, 2003.
“Fusiones horizontales que
reducen los precios” [Price-Reducing Horizontal Mergers]; El Trimestre Económico, vol 72, pp 31-53, 2005 (with summary in
English).
“Econometric Estimation of
PCAIDS Models”; Empirical Economics,
vol 31, pp 587-599, 2006.
“Mergers and Acquisitions in
Mixed-Oligopoly Markets”; International
Journal of Business and Economics, vol 5, pp 147-159, 2006.
“The Arcor/Bagley Merger and
the Argentine Biscuit Market: Price Increases vs. Cost Reductions”; Icfai Journal of Mergers and Acquisitions,
vol 4, no 2, pp 15-28, 2007.
“The Effect of the
Telefonica-BellSouth Merger on the Argentine Cellular Telephone Market”; Telecommunications Policy, vol 31, pp
541-557, 2007.
“Penalty Kicks in Soccer: An
Alternative Methodology for Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria”; Journal of Sports Economics, vol 8, pp
530-545, 2007.
“Damages for Breach of
Contract, Impossibility of Performance and Legal Enforceability”, 16 pgs; Review of Law and Economics, vol 4, pgs
65-80, 2008.
“Equilibrios competitivos y
de Bertrand, con y sin diferenciación de productos” [Competitive and Bertrand
Equilibria, with and without Product Differentiation]; Revista de Análisis Económico, vol 24, pp 43-53, 2009 (with summary
in English).
“Estimation of Demand
Systems Based on Elasticities of Substitution”; Review of Applied Economics, vol 5, pp 31-48, 2009.
“Bertrand
Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti), 28
pgs; B.E. Journal of Theoretical
Economics, vol 10, art 27, 2010.
“El número óptimo de
empresas bajo competencia de Bertrand” [The Optimum Number of Firms with
Bertrand Competition]; Estudios de
Economia, forthcoming (with summary in English).
“Market
Delineation and Merger Simulation: A Proposed Methodology with an Application
to the Argentine Biscuit Market”; Journal
of Competition Law and Economics, forthcoming.
3.3. Book
chapters
“Reforma
de la empresa pública y privatización en la Argentina” [Public Enterprise
Reform and Privatization in Argentina] (joint with Pablo Gerchunoff), 44 pgs;
in Gerchunoff, Pablo (editor): Las
privatizaciones en la Argentina
[Privatizations in Argentina]. Buenos Aires, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1992.
“Empresa
pública y empresa privada: un análisis teórico de eficiencia comparada” [Public
and Private Firms: A Theoretical Analysis of Comparative Efficiency], 30 pgs;
in Gerchunoff, Pablo (editor); op cit,
1992.
“Privatization in
“Teoria econômica da atividade telefônica” [Economic Theory of
Telephony], 36 pgs; in Da Costa, Carlos (editor): Telecomunicações [Telecommunications]. Rio de
Janeiro, Instituto Liberal, 1996.
“Introducción” [Introduction],
17 pgs; in Coloma, Germán (editor): Progresos
en organización industrial [Advances in Industrial Organization]; Buenos
Aires, Temas, 2006.
“Análisis económico de los
derechos de propiedad” [Economic Analysis of Property Rights], 26 pgs; in
Kluger, Viviana (editor): Análisis
económico del derecho [Economic Analysis of Law]; Buenos Aires, Heliasta,
2006.
“The Economic Analysis of US
Antitrust Merger Law”, 13 pgs; in Gregoriou, Greg and Neuhauser, Karyn
(editors): Mergers and Acquisitions. New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008.
“Comentarios sobre los
argumentos económicos analizados en cinco casos de apelación de la ley
argentina de defensa de la competencia” [Comments on the Economic Analyses Used
in Five Argentine Antitrust Cases], 17 pgs; in Favier Dubois, Eduardo and
Tajan, Guillermina (editors): Derecho de
la competencia y su control judicial [Competition Law and its Judiciary
Control].
“The Argentine Competition
Law and its Enforcement”, 24 pgs; in Fox, Eleanor and Sokol, Daniel (editors): Competition Law and Policy in Latin America.
3.4. Other
academic papers
“Teoría
de la empresa
“La
productividad global de las empresas públicas: teoría y aplicación al caso de
la DEBA (1983-1988)” [Global Productivity of Public Corporations: Theory and
Practical Application in the Case of the DEBA (1983-1988)], 10 pgs. Estudios (Fundación Mediterránea), No
60, 1991 (with summary in English).
“Privatizaciones
y reforma regulatoria en la Argentina” [Privatizations and Regulatory reform in
Argentina] (joint with Pablo Gerchunoff), 38 pgs; Seminário Internacional de Desregulamentação. Brasilia, IPEA, 1992.
“La
fijación de los precios del gas natural: aspectos normativos, positivos y
empíricos” [Natural Gas Pricing: Normative, Positive and Empirical Issues], 30
pgs; Annals of the XXV Argentine Public
Finance Meeting. Córdoba, UNC, 1992.
“Costo
laboral relativo y competitividad de la industria” [Relative Labor Cost and
Industrial Competitiveness], 33 pgs (Working Paper No 3 of the IDI).
“La
fijación de precios con objetivos productivos” [Pricing with Productive Aims]
(joint with Mariana Conte Grand), 37 pgs; Annals
of the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Argentine Association of Political Economy.
“Desempeño
empresario y contexto económico: un análisis
“La privatización de las
telecomunicaciones en
“La privatización de
Aerolíneas
“Eficiencia
y manipulabilidad
“Acumulación
de capital y distribución del ingreso en un juego dinámico infinito” [Capital
Accumulation and Income Distribution in an infinite-horizon dynamic game], 33
pgs.
Two Studies on Efficiency and Market Power,
151 pgs; doctoral dissertation submitted to the
“La
ley
“Análisis del comportamiento
“Integración
y contratos verticales entre empresas” [Integration and Vertical Contracts
Among Firms], 28 pgs. Buenos Aires, Instituto Superior de los Economistas de
Gobierno (ISEG), 1998.
“Competition,
Bargaining and Income Distribution in
“La discriminación de precios y la defensa de
la competencia” [Price Discrimination and Antitrust], 27 pgs. Buenos Aires,
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1999.
“Apuntes
para el análisis económico del derecho privado argentino” [Lecture Notes for
the Economic Analysis of the Argentine Private Law], 123 pgs; Working Paper No
156. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 1999.
“Prácticas horizontales
concertadas y defensa de la competencia” [Horizontal Restraints and Competition
Policy], 38 pgs; Working Paper No 170. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 2000.
“Elementos
para una teoría económica unificada de la responsabilidad civil contractual y extracontractual”
[Elements for a Unified Economic Theory of Contractual and Non-Contractual
Liability] (joint with Sergio Pernice), 12 pgs; Annals of the XXXV Annual Meeting of the Argentine Association of
Political Economy (with summary in English). Córdoba, AAEP, 2000.
“A Note on the Equivalence
Between Contractual and Tort Liability Rules” (joint with Sergio Pernice), 18
pgs; Working Paper No 179.
“Breve
análisis económico de la propiedad horizontal” [A Brief Economic Analysis of
Horizontal Property], 18 pgs; Working Paper No 186.
“A Preliminary Analysis of
the Competitive Effects of the Repsol-YPF Merger on the Argentine Gasoline
Market”, 16 pgs; Annals of the VI Annual
Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.
“Un análisis preliminar de
los efectos competitivos de la integración entre Repsol e YPF sobre el mercado
argentino de nafta” [A Preliminary Analysis of the Competitive Effects of the
Repsol-YPF Merger on the Argentine Gasoline Market]; 16 pgs; Annals of the XXXVI Annual Meeting of the
Argentine Association of Political Economy (with summary in English).
“Apuntes
de organización industrial (parte 1)” [Lecture Notes on Industrial
Organization, part 1], 96 pgs; Working Paper No 221.
“Apuntes de organización
industrial (parte 2)” [Lecture Notes on Industrial Organization, part 2], 89
pgs; Working Paper No 222. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 2002.
“Prácticas horizontales
exclusorias y defensa de la competencia” [Horizontal Exclusionary Practices and
Antitrust], 25 pgs; Working Paper No 228. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 2002.
“La tragedia de los comunes y
la tragedia de los anticomunes: una reinterpretación” [The Tragedy of the
Commons and the Tragedy of the Anticommons: A Reinterpretation], 8 pgs; Annals of the Argentine Academy of Economic
Sciences, vol 48, pgs 173-180, 2003.
“Empresa pública,
privatización, regulación y competencia: su papel en la provisión de servicios
de infraestructura” [Public Enterprise, Privatization, Regulation and
Competition: Their Role in the Provision of Infrastructure Services], 23 pgs;
Working Paper No 268. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 2004.
“¿Integración vertical o
cartelización?: el caso del fútbol codificado” [Vertical Integration or
Collusion?: The Case of the Argentine Pay-Per-View Soccer], 16 pgs; Derecho Comercial y de las Obligaciones,
vol 208, pgs 1032-1047, 2004.
“Fusiones y adquisiciones en
mercados con empresas públicas y privadas” [Mergers and Acquisitions in Markets
with Public and Private Firms], 25 pgs (with summary in English); Working Paper
No 299. Buenos
Aires, CEMA University, 2005.
“Estrategia comercial: formas
indirectas de discriminación de precios” [Business Strategy and Indirect Price
Discrimination]; Temas de Management,
vol 3, pgs 3-7, November 2005.
“Bertrand
Equilibria in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti), 15
pgs; Economics Discussion Paper 0627,
“The
Argentine Competiton Law and its Enforcement”, 30 pgs; Working Paper No 342.
“Competencia,
fusiones y prácticas anticompetitivas en los mercados de distribución de
programas de televisión” [Competition, Mergers and Anticompetitive Practices in
Television Program Distribution], 13 pgs; Annals
of the XLII Annual Meeting of the Argentine Association of Political Economy
(with summary in English).
“Bertrand
and Price-Taking Equilibria in Markets with Product Differentiation”, 9 pgs;
Working Paper No 369.
“Bertrand’s
Price Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs” (joint with Alejandro Saporiti),
23 pgs; Working Paper No 541,
“The
Optimum Number of Firms under Bertrand Competition”, 12 pgs; Annals of the IX Latin American Meeting of
Economic Theory. San Luis (Argentina), IMASL, 2008.
“Una metodología unificada para
el cálculo de elasticidades críticas, la definición de mercados relevantes y la
simulación de fusiones horizontales” [A Unified Methodology for Critical
Elasticity Calculation, Market Delineation and Horizontal Merger Simulation],
34 pgs (with summary in English); Working Paper No 394. Buenos Aires, CEMA
University, 2009.
“Importancia económica de las
características fonéticas del idioma español y sus variedades regionales”
[Economic Importance of the Phonetic Characteristics of the Regional Dialects
of the Spanish Language], 22 pgs (with summary in English); Working Paper No
425. Buenos Aires, CEMA University, 2010.
3.5. Other
publications
“Plan
antitrust a favor del Mercosur” [An Antitrust Plan for
Mercosur], 1 pg. Ambito Financiero,
“La
renegociación
“Breve
análisis económico de la ley argentina de defensa de la competencia” [Brief
Economic Analysis of the Argentine Competition Act], 6 pgs; Boletín Latinoamericano de Competencia,
No 2, 1997.
“La
fusión en el derecho de defensa de la competencia”
[Mergers and Competition Law] (joint with Arquímedes Soldano), 4 pgs; Jurisprudencia Argentina, No 6069,
12/24/1997.
“El
caso de YPF y la defensa de la competencia” [Competition Policy and the YPF
Case], 6 pgs; Expe-Outlook, vol 7, nº
53, 1999.
“El control de las fusiones y
adquisiciones en la nueva ley de defensa de la competencia” [Merger Control in
the New Argentine Competitition Act] (joint with Santiago Dellepiane
Avellaneda), 8 pgs; Expe-Outlook, vol
7, nº 54, 1999.
“El análisis económico del derecho” [The Economic Analysis of Law], 1 pg; C-mail, vol 5, nº 21, March 2000.
“Competencia y poder de mercado
en combustibles líquidos” [Competition and Market Power in Fuels] (joint with
Manuel Abdala), 9 pgs; Expe-Outlook,
vol 8, nº 55, 2000.
“La experiencia argentina en el
control previo de fusiones y adquisiciones” [The Argentine Experience in
Pre-Merger Notifications], 4 pgs; Análisis,
vol 3, no 16, April 2001.
“La adquisición de YPF por
Repsol y sus efectos sobre el funcionamiento del mercado argentino de nafta”
[The Acquisition of YPF by Repsol and its Effects on the Argentine Gasoline Market],
9 pgs; LECG Newsletter Latin America,
vol 9, No 60, 2001.
“El equilibrio de Nash y los
tiros penales” [Nash Equilibrium and Soccer Penalty Kicks], 1 pg; C-mail, vol 9, no 44, September 2004.
“El proyecto para regular los
servicios públicos” [The Public Utility Regulation Bill], 1 pg; El Cronista Comercial, October 20, 2004.
“La defensa de la competencia y
los medios de comunicación” [Antitrust and the Media], 3 pgs; Análisis, vol 7, no 40, June 2005.
“Importancia del sector
hidrocarburífero en la Argentina” [Importance of the Hydrocarbon Sector in
Argentina] (joint with Mariana Conte Grand and Joel Schneider), 3 pgs; Análisis, vol 7, no 41, September 2005.
“La ley argentina de defensa de
la competencia: cinco predicciones acerca de su aplicación” [The Argentine
Competition Law: Five Predictions About its Enforcement]; La Ley (UCEMA Supplement), pgs 1-2, 6/7/2007.
“Normas y políticas de
competencia y la regulación de los servicios públicos” [Competition Policy,
Competition Law and Public Utility Regulation], 32 pgs. San José de Costa Rica,
Commission for the Promotion of Competition (COPROCOM), 2007.
“Indemnizaciones por
incumplimiento contractual, seguridad jurídica y caso fortuito” [Contract
Damages, Legal Enforceability and Fortuitous Case]; Revista UCEMA, vol 1, no 4, pgs 12-14, November 2007.
“Competencia, monopolio y televisación del fútbol”
[Competition, Monopoly and Soccer Broadcasting], 1 pg; El Cronista Comercial, August 26, 2009.
“¿Concentración monopólica o de conglomerado?: El
caso de Telecom Italia” [Monopolistic or Conglomerate Merger?: The Case of
Telecom Italia], 3 pgs; La Ley,
February 17, 2010.
4. Academic Experience
Teaching
Assistant of “Analysis of Financial Statements”,
Teaching
Assistant of “Economics of the Firm”,
Member No 368 of the Argentine
Association of Political Economy (since 1992).
Lecturer of “Public Utility
Economics”,
Visiting
Professor of the seminar on “Difference Equations and Dynamic Optimization”,
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (July-August 1994).
Teaching
Assistant at the Economics Departament of the
Teaching
Associate at the Economics Department of the University of California, Los
Angeles (September 1995-March 1996).
Teaching
Assistant Consultant at the Economics Department of the University of
California, Los Angeles (June 1996-March 1997).
Associate
Professor of “Microeconomics I”, University of San Andrés (March 1997-July
1998).
Professor
of “Microeconomics I” at the Government Economics Graduate Program, University
of San Andrés (April-June 1997).
Associate
Professor of “Industrial Organization”, University of San Andrés
(August-December 1997).
Professor of “Information Economics” at the Economics Graduate Program,
National University of La Plata (October 1997-December 1998).
Academic
referee of research projects sponsored by the National Agency for the Promotion
of Science and Technology of Argentina (ANPCyT), and the National Council of
Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET), since 1998.
Associate
Professor of the seminar on “Antitrust and Competition”, National University of
La Plata (August-December 1998).
Full-time
Professor, CEMA University (since February 1999).
Professor
of “Industrial Organization”, Undergraduate Program in Economics, Graduate
Program in Economics and Graduate Program in Business Administration, CEMA
University (since February 1999).
Professor
of “Economic Analysis of Law”, Graduate Program in Finance, CEMA University (February 1999-December 2008).
Director
of the Graduate Program in Project Evaluation, ITBA and CEMA University (since
August 1999).
Member
of the Academic Consultive Board of CEMA University since October 1999.
Visiting Professor of “Industrial Organization” at the Economics
Graduate Program, National University of La Plata (October 1999-December 2001).
Professor
of “Microeconomics and Public Finance”, Graduate Program in Project Evaluation,
ITBA and CEMA University (since March 2000).
Researcher in charge of the project “Economic Analysis of the Argentine
Private Law”, partially financed by the Nacional Agency for the Promotion of
Science and Technology of Argentina, PICT99, Project 2-5073 (August 2000-July
2001).
Member of
the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) between 2001 and
2002.
Professor of “Advanced Microeconomics (Economic Analysis of Law)”, Ph.D.
Program in Economics, CEMA University (September 2002-November 2003).
Academic Evaluator of FASTA
University (Mar del Plata), hired by the National Commission of University
Evaluation of Argentina (November 2002-February 2003).
Co-editor of the Journal of Applied Economics (March
2003-April 2008).
Visiting Professor of “Economic Analysis of Property Rights” at the Law
and Economics Graduate Program, University of Buenos Aires (March 2003-August
2007).
Visiting Professor of “Public Administration and Economics” at the Law
and Economics Graduate Program, University of Buenos Aires (August
2003-November 2004).
Visiting Professor of “Competition and
Antitrust”, Ciudad Argentina Graduate School (EPOCA), Buenos Aires (since
August 2003).
Visiting Professor of “Economic Analysis of
Property Rights” at the Law and Economics Graduate Program, Congress
University, Mendoza (October 2003).
Visiting Professor of the seminar on
“Competition Law” at the Austral University, Buenos Aires (October-November
2003).
Member of
the Organizing Committee of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Colloquium of
ForoCompetencia (Pilar, Argentina, October 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009).
Professor of “Competitive Strategy and Market Regulation” at the
Graduate Program in Business Administration, CEMA University (since September
2004).
Member of
the Executive Board of the Argentine Association of Political Economy (November
2004-November 2008).
Visiting Professor of “Antitrust Law and Economics” at the Law and
Economics Graduate Program, University of Buenos Aires (March 2005-October
2009).
Member of the
Advisory Committee to nominate the professor of “Economics of the firm and
industrial organization”; School of Economic Sciences of the National
University of La Plata (July 2005).
Academic Evaluator of the
Master Program in Economics at Alberto Hurtado University (Santiago, Chile),
hired by the National Commission of University Evaluation of Chile (March-May
2008).
Editor of the Journal
of Applied Economics (since April 2008).
Professor of “Market
Regulation and Antitrust” at the Graduate Program in Finance, CEMA University
(since September 2009).
Four
undergraduate theses chaired at the University of San Andrés (1998-2001).
Thirty-nine
master theses chaired at
Four
doctoral dissertation committees chaired at CEMA University (2002-2009).
Academic
Referee for the following journals: Económica,
Economic Theory, Energy Journal, Ensayos Económicos, International Game Theory
Review, International Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Applied
Economics, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy,
Journal of Sport Economics, Manchester School, Problemas del Desarrollo, Review
of Industrial Organization and
Telecommunications Policy.
5. Other Professional Experience
Regent
of the School of Economic Sciences of the National University of La Plata, in
representation of the students (1986-1988).
President
of the Students’ Union of Economic Sciences of the National University of La
Plata (1987-1988).
Assistant
to the Financial Manager of the Energy Social Enterprise of Buenos Aires (ESEBA
SA), assigned to the Budget Division (May 1990-March 1992).
Associate
Researcher in the study “Privatizations in Argentina”, directed by Pablo
Gerchunoff. Instituto Torcuato Di Tella and Inter-American Development Bank
(1991-1992).
Permanent
Researcher at the Institute for the Development of the Industry (IDI) of the “Fundación
Unión Industrial Argentina” (UIA) (March 1992-August 1993).
Consultant
on energy economics for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in the
study “The Competitiveness of the Argentine Industry”; Project Arg/92/008
(April-July 1992).
Associate Researcher in the study “Antitrust
Policy in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)”. Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina (1992-1993).
Delegate
to the XV International Conference of Labor Statisticians, in representation of
the Unión Industrial Argentina. Geneva, International Labor Organization
(January 1993).
Associate
Researcher in the study “Fiscal Harmonization Between Brazil and Argentina”.
National University of La Plata and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina
(1993).
Consultant
to YPF S.A. about gasoline pricing and market structure in Argentina (July
1996).
Permanent
Consultant to the National Competition Commission of Argentina (April-December
1997).
Consultant
to Aguas Argentinas S.A, hired for the renegotiation of the franchise contract
of water and sewage in the Buenos Aires area (May-July 1997).
Chief
Economist of the National Competition Commission of Argentina (December
1997-December 1998).
Affiliate
to the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG, LLC) since January 1999.
Consultant to Marby S.A, about antidumping in
the Argentine steel market (August 1999).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of the competitive behavior of the Argentine
cement market (September 1999-June 2005).
Consultant
to the Argentine Association of Long-Distance Transportation Companies, about
competition in the Argentine air transport market (October 1999-January 2000).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the rate structure revision of the water and sewage franchise
in the La Paz area (July-September 2001).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine fuel
markets (March-April 2002).
Consultant to Air Liquide
S.A, about competition in the Argentine oxygen market (September 2002-June
2005).
Consultant hired by LECG for
preparing documents to be presented in public utility rate hearings of the
water and sewage concession in the Buenos Aires area (September-October 2002).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine wholesale
natural gas market (December 2003-February 2007).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine cellular
telecommunications market (May-July 2004).
Consultant
to the associations of milk producers from the provinces of Buenos Aires,
Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and La Pampa, about market power measurement in
the Argentine wholesale milk market (September 2004).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the elaboration of antitrust regulations in the Uruguayan telecommunications’
markets (October 2004-September 2005).
Consultant
hired by an important tobacco company to analyze the economic regulation of
products subject to health risks (April-December 2005).
Consultant
hired by Voridian SRL for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine
plastic packaging market (December 2005-February 2006).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine electricity
and natural gas industries (January-March 2006).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine biscuit
market (March-October 2006).
Consultant
hired by the National Competition Commission of Argentina for the analysis of
antitrust issues in the television markets, sponsored by a research grant from
the International Development Research Center of Canada (April 2006-February
2007).
Consultant
hired by the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), for
the analysis of regulation and antitrust issues in Costa Rica (May
2006-September 2007).
Consultant
hired by the Panamanian Authority of Consumer Protection and Competition Policy
(APCDC), for the analysis of competition issues in Panama (July 2007).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine beer market
(August-September 2007).
Consultant
hired by Megavisión Santiago S.A. for the analysis of antitrust issues in the
cable television markets in the province of Santiago del Estero (December
2007).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Chilean beer market
(March-May 2008).
Consultant
hired by the Colombian Authority of Industry and Commerce (SIC), for the
analysis of competition issues in Colombia (July-August 2008).
Consultant
hired by the Peruvian Regulatory Agency of Energy and Mining (OSINERGMIN), for
the analysis of competition issues in energy markets (September 2008).
Consultant
hired by the Uruguayan Regulatory Agency of Telecommunications (URSEC), for the
analysis of competition issues in telecommunications’ markets in Uruguay (October-December 2008).
Consultant hired by LECG for the analysis of
competition regulation issues in the Colombian mobile telecommunications market
(February 2009).
Consultant
hired by the Argentine Association of Building Firms (Cámara Argentina de la
Construcción) for the analysis of socio-economic benefits of water and sewerage
infrastructure (May-November 2009).
Consultant
hired by the Argentine Treasury Attorney’s Office (PTN) for the analysis of
regulation issues concerning the concession of water and sewerage services in
the Province of Buenos Aires (June 2009-March 2010).
Consultant
hired by an important oil company to analyze competition and regulatory issues
in the oil markets of Argentina and Bolivia (June-September 2009).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine beer market
(July-September 2009).
Consultant
hired by LECG for the analysis of antitrust issues in the Argentine telecommunications
market (August-October 2009).
Consultant
hired by the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), for
the analysis of topics related to abuse of dominance and collusive practices in
Colombia and Peru (since March 2010).