(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Miró Quesada Gayoso, Josefina
Currently, the right to die with dignity has come to the forefront in the Peruvian political debate since the domestic legal framework not only denies this right to whom aims to exercise, but penalizes it. However, when transcending this legal framework, the outlook varies.This article explores the scope and content of the human rights that underpin the right to die with dignity exercised by a conscious person in full mental faculties requesting to put an end to its life due to intolerable pain suffered as a result of an incurable disease. Based on the study of international instruments of human rights protection, as well as the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, it is argued that one’s faculty to intervene in one’s life not only does not constitute a violation of international obligations of States Parties to treaties such as the American Convention, but represents the respect and guarantee of such rights.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) García Santos Coy, Luis Gerardo; Kargl Pavía, Jorge; Esparza Fregoso, Regina
Digital platforms are changing the world, from the way we communicate to the way we commercialize products and services. Antitrust regulators are facing new challenges as they review entirely new and unprecedented markets with particular rules and dynamics. In Mexico, both antitrust authorities (the Federal Economic Competition Commission and the Federal Institute of Telecommunications) have suggested different interpretations regarding a jurisdictional assessment for digital markets, to the extent that it has been necessary to involve Federal Courts. Particularities of multiple-sided markets, big data, indirect network effects, multi-homing and the different conception of market power in digital markets have required a new approximation by antitrust authorities, both regarding merger control and in the investigation and prosecution of anticompetitive behavior.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Gómez Ramos, Carlos Andrés
In Peru, there is no clear and uniform criteria to solve cases regarding charges made by financial institutions to customers’ compensation accounts as a means of compensation for debts incurred by the user. In the last ten years, different instances from the Indecopi and Supreme Court have issued contradictory rulings, evidencing a lack of consensus about the legality or illegality of said charges. Faced with this reality, the author wishes to show how the fixation on certain aspects of these cases have made jurists develop inattentional blindness, which lead them to base their reasoning on false premises. With this article, the author hopes to correct this mistake. In order to achieve this, he analyzes what is the duty of care, the difference between the concept of compensation and automatic debit, and, finally, the real disposable nature of remunerations. Thus, he highlights the aspects associated with charges made by financial institutions to customers’ accounts that are usually overlooked by the courts.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Tepper Maturana, Richard
It is generally considered that competition is normatively desirable due to its effects on the creation and distribution of economic resources. Nonetheless, determining its impact on the innovation rate is a highly complex issue.This article analyses the most relevant aspects of that link and its consequences for competition law. In this regard, the author explores the literature on the relationship between innovation and competition, and appraises the issues create by innovation on antitrust’s structuralist tradition and the setting of its substantive standards.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Márquez, Pablo; Arciniegas, María Fernanda
Recent technological developments have led to important changes in the competition dynamics of the audiovisual content industry. The digitalization and easier access to the internet have increased the supply and demand of these types of products. The entry of new economic agents and new production and distribution methods must force us to reconsider the applicable antitrust policy for this industry.In light of this, this paper proposes we focus the analysis on the competition between suppliers for the consumers’ attention. Consequently, the authors explore the definition of relevant market in the audiovisual content industry and digital platforms traditionally welcomed by Latin-American, European and American regulatory bodies and competition agencies (with a special emphasis on the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney), as well as analyze the way these work and the possible obstacles to free competition inside them.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Segovia Trocones, Enzo Pierino
On May 11, 2020, during the health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Legislative Decree 1510 was issued, which made a few amendments to various rules on free and fair competition. One of the amendments provided that the Law on Merger Control added, as a criterion to be considered for the procedures for assessing a merger, the financial crisis of one of the companies concerned and the need to carry out the merger duly accredited by the notifying parties. In this paper, the author observes that the fact that one of the companies is undergoing financial difficulties is not sufficient to allow for flexibility in the merger control. To demonstrate this, he presents a brief description of the failing firm defense from a historical perspective, the most relevant precedents in the United States and the European Union, and the current requirements for its accreditation in those jurisdictions and in Latin American countries. Finally, he presents the economic, industrial and social rationality underlying this exception and the possibilities of being applied in Peruvian practice.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Cannock, Geoffrey; Ezcurra, Rodrigo
The Peruvian competition authority Indecopi simultaneously upholds the duties of ensuring a free market as well as protecting it from distortions caused by dumping practices. Such incoherence is evident, since both disciplines are based upon opposite principles: one favors free trade, while the other tends toward protectionism.In this article, the authors explore Indecopi’s dumping policy and how it can collide with the maintenance of a free market. To achieve this, they analyze the legal basis of the WTO’s Antidumping Agreement in Peru, they explain the theories and effects of dumping practices and, at last, they critically analyze the antidumping measures taken by Indecopi against Chinese footwear. The authors close the article by recommending ways in which Indecopi can improve its performance in these types of matters.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Poirier-Garneau, Vincent; Zumaeta Castro, Fiorella
Cooperation agreements and mergers and acquisitions are frequent operations that enable the achievement of efficiencies. However, the resulting increase in market concentration could lead to a reduction (or elimination) of competitive pressures, among other aspects. For this reason, it is necessary for the competition authorities to carry out a thorough evaluation, but at the same time, within the parameters of reasonableness, before approving a transaction of this caliber, both in normal times and in times of crisis.In this article, the authors analyze various alternatives of inorganic growth through national, regional and comparative experience, in order to present the importance of a careful operation structuring along with the implementation of competition best practices, conditions that must be maintained in both normal times and in critical times such as the one that is experienced by the COVID-19.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-13) Carrillo Temple, César Rodrigo
The exercise of the constitutional economic rights of free private initiative and freedom of enterprise may be justifiably limited by objective and reasonable limits established in regulation or imposed by the operation of the market itself. Nonetheless, such rights may be unjustifiably restricted by anti-competitive practices, regulations that contradict the legal system, or the imposition of unnecessary demands and limitations by the Government.In this context, the current regulatory framework in Peru establishes various mechanisms to control the different types of barriers to entry and permanence in the market, among which is the system of elimination of bureaucratic barriers, regulated by Legislative Decree 1256. In order to understand this system and its proper application, the author delimits the scope and particularities of the concept of bureaucratic barrier, as well as the requirements and demands for the individuals to report and prove the existence of illegal and/or unreasonable bureaucratic barriers before the Peruvian Competition Agency.