Corporate & Securities Law

Competition Prize - competition (antitrust) law or economics written by young scholars

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol THE HELLENIC COMPETITION COMMISSION Wishing to promote competition culture in Greece, and in the context of its competition advocacy efforts, announces for 2010 a competition for the prize ?Competition 2010?. The prize will be awarded...

EXCESSIVE PRICING: TOWARDS CLARITY AND ECONOMIC COHERENCE

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Claudio Calcagno (European University Institute) and Mike Walker (CRA) have a new article on EXCESSIVE PRICING: TOWARDS CLARITY AND ECONOMIC COHERENCE. ABSTRACT: One of the thorniest areas of antitrust enforcement is whether, and how, to...

Estimating Pass-On

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jan Peter van der Veer & Andrea Lofaro (RBB Economics) have a paper on Estimating Pass-On. ABSTRACT: When assessing the damage incurred by customers of a cartel, it may (depending on the applicable legal framework)...

More details - Global Competition Law and Practice Conference in New Delhi, India

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I wanted to give readers of the blog some more information regarding the conference in New Delhi, India that Ioannis Lianos (UCL) and I (Daniel Sokol of the University of Florida) are organizing. Within the...

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Predation Analysis and the FTC's Case Against Intel

Posted on June 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Crane (Michigan Law) has an interesting article on Predation Analysis and the FTC's Case Against Intel. ABSTRACT: The Federal Trade Commission's pending antitrust case against Intel challenges a number of Intel's discounting and rebating...

Age Eligibility Rules in Women's Professional Golf: A Legal Eagle or an Antitrust Bogey?

Posted on June 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Elizabeth A. Gregg, Indiana University, Lawrence W. Fielding, Jacksonville University and Ryan M. Rodenberg, Florida State University ask Age Eligibility Rules in Women's Professional Golf: A Legal Eagle or an Antitrust Bogey? ABSTRACT: The LPGA's...

Vertical Control of a Distribution Network - An Empirical Analysis of Magazines

Posted on June 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stijn Ferrari, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and Frank Verboven, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Faculty of Business and Economics explore Vertical Control of a Distribution Network - An Empirical Analysis of Magazines...

Antitrust and Innovation: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Going

Posted on June 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) has an important contribution on Antitrust and Innovation: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Going. ABSTRACT: For large parts of their history intellectual property law and antitrust law have...

Deliberate Concealment in Cartel Claims

Posted on June 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Romano Subiotto QC and Ruchit Patel (Cleary Gottlieb) describe Deliberate Concealment in Cartel Claims. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the application of the deliberate concealment doctrine (as contained in the UK Limitation Act 1980) to damages...

Entry, Competitiveness and Exports: Evidence from Firm Level Data of Indian Manufacturing

Posted on June 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alokesh Barua (International Trade and Development Division, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Debashis Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi) and Hariprasad C. G. (International Trade and Development Division, School of International...

Dawn of a New Constitutional Era or Opportunity Wasted? An Intellectual Reappraisal of China?s Anti-Monopoly Law

Posted on June 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oliver Zhong, US-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law writes on Dawn of a New Constitutional Era or Opportunity Wasted? An Intellectual Reappraisal of China?s Anti-Monopoly Law. ABSTRACT: China?s nascent ?competition law? legislation,...

Promoting Innovation Through Patent and Antitrust Law and Policy

Posted on June 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christine Varney (DOJ) has an important new speech up on the web titled Promoting Innovation Through Patent and Antitrust Law and Policy. There are her remarks for the Joint Workshop of the U.S. Patent and...

New Chambers USA Rankings Are Out - Texas Antitrust Elite Edition

Posted on June 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust: Texas Senior Statesmen Harry M Reasoner(Vinson & Elkins LLP) Band 1 Jerry Beane(Andrews Kurth LLP) Curtis L Frisbie Jr(Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP) H Lee Godfrey(Susman Godfrey LLP) Gregory S C Huffman(Thompson & Knight LLP)...

Petroleum Mergers and Competition in the Northeast United States

Posted on June 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher T. Taylor, U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics Louis Silvia, Government of the United States of America - Federal Trade Commission have a new paper on Petroleum Mergers and Competition in the...

New Chambers USA Rankings Are Out - Pennsylvania Antitrust Elite Edition

Posted on June 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust: Pennsylvania Band 1Dechert LLP Band 2Berger & Montague PCBuchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCFine, Kaplan and Black, RPCPepper Hamilton LLP Band 3Ballard Spahr LLPDrinker Biddle & Reath LLPKohn Swift & Graf, PCLanger, Grogan & Diver...

How Do Firms Set Prices? Survey Evidence from Ireland

Posted on June 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mary J. Keeney (Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland), Martina Lawless (Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland) and Alan Murphy (Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland) ask How Do...

Competition and stability in banking

Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Xavier Vives (IESE Business School) discusses Competition and stability in banking. ABSTRACT: I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in...

Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market: An Experimental Investigation

Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bradley J. Ruffle (Ben-Gurion University), Avi Weiss (Bar-Ilan University), and Amir Etziony (Hewlett-Packard Israel) have a new paper on Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market: An Experimental Investigation. ABSTRACT: A network market is...

Level of Access and Competition in Broadband Markets

Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marc Bourreau (Institut Telecom and CREST-LEI) and Pinar Dogan (Harvard) have a new paper on Level of Access and Competition in Broadband Markets. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we consider an unregulated incumbent who owns a...

New Chambers USA Rankings Are Out - North Carolina Antitrust Elite Edition

Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust: North Carolina Senior Statesmen John F Graybeal(Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LLP) George L Little Jr(Kilpatrick Stockton LLP) John M Murchison(K&L Gates) Band 1 Everett J Bowman(Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson PA) W Andrew Copenhaver(Womble...

Important Scholarly News - Phil Areeda's Papers now Available for Researchers

Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Harvard's Law Library has opened the papers of Phil Areeda for researchers. See here for details.

Collusive networks in market-sharing agreements under the presence of an antitrust authority

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Flavia Roldan (IESE Business School) presents Collusive networks in market-sharing agreements under the presence of an antitrust authority. ABSTRACT: This paper studies how the presence of an antitrust authority affects market-sharing agreements made by firms...

The classical notion of competition revisited

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino (University of Pisa and University of Palermo, respectively) write on The classical notion of competition revisited. ABSTRACT: The paper seeks to fill a lacuna within Classical economics concerning the process...

Platforms and Limits to Network Effects

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hanna Halaburda (Harvard Business School, Strategy Unit) and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Harvard Business School, Strategy Unit) explore Platforms and Limits to Network Effects. ABSTRACT: We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would...

Price and quality competition

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioana Chioveanuy (University College London - Econ) explains Price and quality competition. ABSTRACT: This study considers an oligopoly model with simultaneous price and quality choice. Exante homogeneous sellers compete by offering products at one of...

Competition in Digital Media and the Internet: The Related Roles of Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Regulation (7 July 2010)

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Jevons Institute, based at the UCL Faculty of Laws, is pleased to announce its 2010 Colloquium on: Competition in Digital Media and the Internet - The Related Roles of Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Regulation...

Competition Policy: Going International?

Posted on June 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Nihoul (University of Louvain Law) and Thomas Lübbig (Freshfields) ask Competition Policy: Going International? ABSTRACT: There has been much talk about the necessity for competition policy to go international. National or regional competition policies...

Introducing Global Competition Law and Economics Book Series from Stanford University Press

Posted on June 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am very pleased to announce the establishment of the new book series Global Competition Law and Economics from Stanford University Press. The two series edtiors are Ioannis Lianos (UCL) and D. Daniel Sokol (University...

Economic Evidence in Private Damage Claims: What lessons can be learned from the German Cement Cartel case?

Posted on June 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Niels Frank (Lademann & Associates and University of Bayreuth) and Rainer Lademann (Lademann & Associates) of summarizes Economic Evidence in Private Damage Claims: What lessons can be learned from the German Cement Cartel case? ABSTRACT:...

Optimal Antitrust Enforcement, Dynamic Competition, and Changing Economic Conditions

Posted on June 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Keith N. Hylton, Boston University and Haizhen Lin, Indiana University explore Optimal Antitrust Enforcement, Dynamic Competition, and Changing Economic Conditions. ABSTRACT: The recent financial crisis and recession provide an opportunity to reexamine the dynamic versus...

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