- E-mailIgnacio.Herrera-Anchustegui@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 39 20+47 450 01 201
- Visitor AddressMagnus Lagabøtes plass 1. 5010 Bergen. Norway.BergenRoom527
- Postal AddressPostboks 78065020 BERGEN
I am a Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen, and member of the Bergen Center for Competition Law & Economics. My research interests are connected with the regulation of markets as I work on the interface of competition, public procurement and energy law.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Bergen with a thesis entitled "Buyer Power in EU Competition Law" (2012-2017), financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
My PhD dissertation won the prestigious “2017 Concurrences PhD Award” to the best PhD dissertation in the field of competition law or economics of the year, awarded by Concurrences. In addition to the award, the thesis has been published by Concurrences as a monograph and it is available here.
Also, I received the Meltzerprisen for yngre forskere 2017 for my academic research and significant contributions to EU/EEA market law scholarship.
Currently, I am working on a research project financed by Statoil through the AkademiaAvtalen entitled "Regulating energy markets, a perspective from EEA/EU Competition and Public Procurement Law" (2017-2019). As part of this research project I have been awarded the prestigious International Scholar-in-Residence scholarship by the American Bar Association, which allowed me visit the US for a period of almost four months and carry our research in the comparative regulation of transmission unbundling infrastructures in electricity markets while being a visiting researcher at Georgetown Law Center, D.C., and the School of Law of the University of Wisconsin.
If you are interested in some of my work, please visit my SSRN site.
- Invited entry in the blog "Competencia y Regulación" of Prof. Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda. "DIA/EROSKI y las alianzas compradoras, segunda parte: La Resolución de la CNMC".
- Interview "Issues with the centralisation of procurement" in the Public Procurement Podcast Series by Pedro Telles, Senior Lecturer in Law at Swansea University and sponsored by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Invited entry in the blog "Competencia y Regulación" of Prof. Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda entitled "Sobre el abuso de dependencia económica y los códigos de conducta: El caso Tesco (plazos de pago y slotting allowances)".
- Invited entry in the Competition Policy Blog of the Centre for Competitio Policy (UEA). "Unfair purchasing practices and the Groceries Code of Conduct: the Tesco Investigation".
- Invited entry in the blog "Competencia y Regulación" of Prof. Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda. "El Acuerdo DIA-EROSKI: Alianza compradora o cártel de compra?" (The DIA-EROSKI Agreement: Buying alliance or buyers cartel?)".
- Invited entry in the blog "Competencia y Regulación" of Prof. Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda."Sobre el abuso de dependencia económica en la cadena alimentaria: el asunto EDEKA" (On abuse of economic dependence in food retailing: the EDEKA case).
- 2017. Buyer Power in EU Competition Law. 652 pages. ISBN: 978-1-939007-24-7.
- 2019. Oil as Currency: Venezuela's Petro, a New 'Oil Pattern'? Oil, Gas and Energy Law (OGEL). 20 pages.
- 2018. Buyer power and Dominance: An overview of EU and national case law - Special issue of e-Competitions. e-Competitions Bulletin. Published 2018-04-19.
- 2018. Hva er egentlig ACER - Eksperten gir deg svar. Dagsavisen. 1 pages. Published 2018-03-20.
- 2018. Buyer Power in Merge Control: An Overview of EU and National Case Law. Special issue of e-Competitions. e-Competitions Bulletin. 16 pages. Published 2018-02-01.
- 2018. Evaluating the Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Unfair Trading Practices. Competition in Fairness? European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe). 2: 280-289. doi: 10.21552/core/2018/4/7
- 2018. Strømbrudd i ACER-debatten. Energi og Klima : Norsk klimastiftelses nettmagasin. 3 pages. Published 2018-03-21.
- 2017. Joint Bidding and Object Restrictions of Competition: The EFTA Court’s Take in the Taxi Case. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe). 1: 174-179. doi: https://doi.org/10.21552/core/2017/2/14
- 2017. Buyer Power in the Big Data and Algorithm Driven World: The Uber & Lyft Example. Antitrust Chronice. Summer 2017 Vol 1: 31-36.
- 2016. Book review: Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules (A. Sánchez Graells). European Competition Law Review. 37: 84-87.
- 2016. Book Review - Caroline Heide-Jørgensen, Christian Bergqvist, Ulla Neergaard & Sune Troels Poulsen (Eds.), Aims and Values in Competition Law (DJØF Publishing, 2013). The Competition Law Review. 11: 1-4.
- 2016. Revisiting the concept of undertaking from a public procurement law perspective - a discussion on EasyPay and Finance Engineering. European Competition Law Review. 37: 93-98.
- 2015. EFTA Court case E-24/13 Casino Admiral AG v Wolfgang Egger: the obligation of transparency and consequences of its breach when awarding service concessions. The Public Procurement Law Review. 1: NA1-NA9.
- 2015. Centralising Public Procurement and Competitiveness in Directive 2014/24. European Law Reporter. 4: 119-132.
- 2015. Competition law through an Ordoliberal Lens. Oslo Law Review. 2: 139-174.
- 2017. Utredning av muligheten for å etablere en inngrepshjemmel mot ensidige handlinger i verdikjeden for mat som ikke rammes av konkurranseloven § 11 / Unilateral Behaviors Below Dominance and Unfair Purchasing Practices: A Comparative Perspective. Nærings- og Fiskeridepartementet, Oslo. 68 pages.
- 2017. Buyer Power in EU Competition Law. Universitetet i Bergen. 603 pages.
- 2019. Transmission Networks in Electricity Competition: Third-Party Access and Unbundling – a Transatlantic Perspective. Chapter, pages . In:
- 2019. Competencia en mercados con recursos esenciales compartidos: telecomunicaciones y energía. Forlaget Thomson. 180 pages. ISBN: 978-84-9177-946-9.
- 2019. Collaborative Centralized Cross-Border Public Procurement: Where Are We and Where Are We Going To? Chapter, pages . In:
- 2019. Centralização e Agregação de Compras Públicas- Reflexões Sobre uma Tendência Actual da Contratação Pública (Centralization and Aggregation of Public Purchases - Reflections on a Current Trend in Public Procurement). Livraria Almedina. 450 pages. ISBN: 9789724079141.
- 2018. Service Concessions. Directive 2014/23 on the award of concession contracts. A comparative study of its transposition into Norwegian law. Chapter, pages . In:
- 2018. Service Concessions in the EU. Forlaget Thomson. 350 pages. ISBN: 978-84-9177-232-3.
- 2016. Division into lots and demand aggregation – extremes looking for the correct balance? Chapter 5, pages 125-145. In:
- 2016. Reformation or Deformation of the EU Public Procurement Rules. Edward Elgar Publishing. 448 pages. ISBN: 978 1 78536 180 7.
- 2016. Buyer power exploitation: Unfair Purchasing Practices. Chapter 12, pages 349-421. In:
- 2016. Derecho de la Competencia y Gran Distribución. Forlaget Thomson. 350 pages. ISBN: 8491352910.
- 2016. The Social Market Economy and the European Union. Contribution 22, pages 74-79. In:
- 2016. Історико-правовий вимір інтеграційного процесу у новий та новітній час (Historical and Legal Views on the Integration Process During the Modern and Contemprorary Era). 80 pages. ISBN: 978-966-928-035-0.
- 2016. Impact of public procurement aggregation on competition. Risks, rationale and justification for the rules in directive 2014/24. Chapter 3, pages 129-163. In:
- 2016. Compra conjunta y demanda agregada en la contratación del sector público. Un análisis jurídico y económico. Forlaget Thomson. 521 pages. ISBN: 978-84-9098-616-5.
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