Dr. Jorge Padilla is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe. Dr. Padilla earned M. Phil and D. Phil degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford. He is Research Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI, Madrid) and teaches competition economics at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) and at the TSE (Toulouse School of Economics). He has advised on various cases and given expert testimony before competition authorities and courts of several EU member states, as well as in cases before the European Commission. Dr. Padilla has submitted written testimony to the European General Court and the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal in cartel, merger control and abuse of dominance cases. He has also given expert testimony in various civil litigation (damages) and international arbitration cases. Dr. Padilla has written numerous papers on competition policy and industrial organization in the Antitrust Bulletin, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Economic Journal, the European Competition Journal, the European Competition Law Review, the European Economic Review, the Fordham International Law Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Economic Theory, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the University of Chicago Law Review, and World Competition. He is also co-author of The Law and Economics of Article 102 TFEU, 2nd edition, Hart Publishing, 2013.
2022 Awards
2021 Awards
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Balancing incentives to innovate in upstream wireless technology markets with exit concerns in midstream component product marketsKoren W. Wong-Ervin and Jorge Padilla, An antitrust professor on the bench Liber Amicorum volume II, Book chapter, Concurrences Books, December 9, 2020
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Self-preferencing in markets with vertically-integrated gatekeeper platformsCSEF Working Papers, Jorge Padilla, Joe Perkins and Salvatore Piccolo, 28 September, 2020
2020 Awards
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An economic approach to antitrust analysis of discriminatory licensing, grantbacks and cross-licenses, no-challenge clauses, and patent thicketsJorge Padilla and Koren Wong-Ervin, Concurrences N° 3-2019 l pp. 44-51
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Big Tech BankingJorge Padilla and Miguel de la Mano, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Volume 14, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 494–526, April 2019
Distinctions
Nominee, 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Digital
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Digital
Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Winner, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Economics



