Ведущим экономистом Европейской Комиссии по вопросам конкуренции назначат экономического консультанта Microsoft

#Microsoft's economic adviser on the acquisition of #ActivisionBlizzard will reportedly become the next chief economist of the #EuropeanCommission's Directorate-General for Competition (#DGCOMP).

Had similar role in Obama Administration.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/eu-to-tap-former-obama-enforcer-as-top-antitrust-economist

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The EU will change its nationality rules just for her. She'll be DG COMP's first female chief economist.

Key area of responsibility will be implementation and enforcement of #DigitalMarketsAcr.

Here's one of her writings on the ABK merger: https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/642/2022/12/Principles-for-platform-mergers-with-an-application-to-Microsoft-Activision.pdf

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There is no problem here because the merger will be approved before she starts working for the Commission.

That the EU goes out of its way to enlist her shows Microsoft previously made a great choice and suggests her pro-merger arguments were viewed favorably by the EC.

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