# Professor Thomas Philippon and PhD student Germán Gutiérrez's joint research on competition in the US and European markets is featured

1 Faculty News February 7, 2019 ![Investors Chronicle logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/investorschronicle192x144.jpg?itok=pu12Drpa)>

Excerpt from [Investors Chronicle](https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/risk/2019/02/07/competitive-pressures/) -- "In a paper they produced in June 2018 they say that the EU’s competition regulators 'are more independent than their American counterparts and they enforce pro-competition policies more strongly than any individual country ever did.'"

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