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Analysis Group’s Pierre Régibeau Weighs Legal and Economic Approaches to Trade Defense Investigation in Panel Moderated by Vice President Pierre Lissot
Analysis Group Competition Expert Pierre Régibeau examined the complementarity of legal and economic approaches to trade defense investigations during a panel discussion at the firm’s Brussels office. The event was co-hosted by DS Avocats and moderated by Analysis Group Vice President Pierre Lissot. The other panelists were Dimana Todorova (DS Avocats) and Marthe Talleu (Gerflor).
Using a European anti-dumping investigation as an example, the panelists discussed the conditions required to successfully lodge a complaint before the Directorate-General for Trade – the EU’s trade authority – and how standard economic techniques can be applied to analyze the legal criteria set out in anti-dumping regulations. For complainants, these techniques can be used to track the causal link between any dumping and injury. For defendants and users, they can be applied to assess product similarity and to evaluate the impact of potential anti-dumping duties.
The panel also highlighted that several analytical methodologies – such as determining the substitutability of products, the pass-through of higher charges to prices, or equilibrium analysis – used in antitrust investigations and merger control cases can be applied in trade defense investigations as well.
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Pierre Lissot
Vice PresidentMr. Lissot is an economist with expertise in the areas of modeling, econometrics, policy making, macroeconomics and microeconomics, and energy and environment. He has 15 years of experience working in French government agencies, including the Bank of France; the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies; the French Ministry of Finance; and the French Ministry of Energy and Environment. While at these agencies, he conducted numerous economic and statistical studies to analyze household consumption and assess the economic impact of government reforms. Prior to his roles in public service, Mr. Lissot worked at an economics consulting firm, where he provided economic analysis for regulatory and antitrust matters involving mergers, cartels, and vertical restraints.
Pierre Régibeau
Competition ExpertDr. Régibeau, the former chief competition economist at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), is an expert in industrial organization, with a particular focus on technology-intensive industries, intellectual property (IP) rights, and competition policy. His areas of specialty include the economics of digital platforms and innovation, vertical restraints and abuse of dominance, and international trade. His consulting experience includes advising on a wide variety of cases before courts and competition authorities throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.
Dr. Régibeau has held teaching and research positions at institutions that include the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a number of European universities. He has published extensively in leading journals and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Economics. For more than a decade, he has taught a course on the intersection of IP rights and competition policy at the CRESSE Summer School on Competition Policy and Regulation. Dr. Régibeau has also served as a member of the Economic Advising Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission.