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Price Coordination in Two-Sided Markets: Competition in the TV Industry

Posted on April 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hans Jarle Kind, Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration (NHH), CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) - Department of Economics, Tore...

Harmonizing Essential Facilities

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and William Tasch, Loyola University Chicago School of Law - Student explain the process of Harmonizing Essential Facilities. ABSTRACT: The United States and the rest of...

US Antitrust Law under an Obama Administration: One year on

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Centre for Law and Economics is pleased to present a seminar: US Antitrust Law under an Obama Administration: One year on Speakers: Professor Eleanor Fox, New York University School of Law Professor Andrew...

Payment Cards Pricing Patterns: The Role of Antitrust and Regulatory Authorities

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Advanced School of Public Administration explores Payment Cards Pricing Patterns: The Role of Antitrust and Regulatory Authorities. ABSTRACT: Antitrust enforcers and regulators are increasingly worried that...

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The D.C. Circuit?s Error in Rambus and a More Justifiable Framework for Causation and Standard-Setting

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mike Carrier (Rutgers-Camden Law) has posted The D.C. Circuit?s Error in Rambus and a More Justifiable Framework for Causation and Standard-Setting. ABSTRACT: In the most important ruling ever on causation and standard-setting, In re Rambus,...

Preserving a Political Bargain: The Political Economy of the Non-Interventionist Challenge to Monopolization Enforcement

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jon Baker (American University - Law) has posted the very interesting Preserving a Political Bargain: The Political Economy of the Non-Interventionist Challenge to Monopolization Enforcement. This is an article worth downloading...

Proving Common Impact in Antitrust Class Actions: Current Legal and Economic Thinking

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Proving Common Impact in Antitrust Class Actions: Current Legal and Economic Thinking May 12, 2010 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (CST) Gleacher Center, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, Illinois Description: With issues raised by...

Advocate General Opinion in Akzo Nobel Case - This is a Significant Setback for In-house Lawyers

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The opinion is here. The WSJ covers it here.

2nd Circuit Cipro Reverse Payments Decision is Out

Posted on April 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Second Circuit upheld the Cipro settlement today, but recommended that plaintiffs file for en banc review. Mike Carrier (Rutgers Camden - Law) offers his thoughts here.

Predation Under Perfect Information

Posted on April 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol C�dric Argenton, Tilburg Law and Economics Center has posted Predation Under Perfect Information. ABSTRACT: In an oligopoly configuration characterized by high barriers to (re-)entry, a finite horizon, perfect information about demand and costs and the...

UCL Centre for Law and Economics conference, 21 & 22 May 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus

Posted on April 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Centre for Law and Economics would like to cordially invite you to a conference on competition law on 21 and 22 May 2002 in Cyprus. Conference proceedings on 21 May 2010 will be...

Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation

Posted on April 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University - Department of Economics and Heiko A. Gerlach, University of Auckland - Department of Economics explore Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation. ABSTRACT: In this paper we...

Review of Michael Carrier's 'Innovation in the 21st Century'

Posted on April 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Geoff Manne, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Lecturer in Law, Lewis & Clark Law School provides a Review of Michael Carrier's 'Innovation in the 21st Century'. ABSTRACT: This essay reviews Michael Carrier's recent...

Anticompetitive Effect

Posted on April 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and Alan Devlin, his clerk, ponder Anticompetitive Effect. ABSTRACT: Despite receiving thorough analytic treatment from the judiciary and academy, and notwithstanding its sophisticated...

Innovation and the Limits of Antitrust

Posted on April 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Geoffrey A. Manne, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Lecturer in Law, Lewis & Clark Law School and Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law explore the important topic of Innovation and...

The Web Economy, Two-Sided Markets and Competition Policy

Posted on April 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Evans (U Chicago - Law, UCL - Law, LECG) explains The Web Economy, Two-Sided Markets and Competition Policy. ABSTRACT: The web economy has grown rapidly in the last decade. Online businesses have several key...

Stolt-Neilsen Supreme Court Case is Out

Posted on April 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See here regarding the case involving antitrust arbitration.

Competition with Local Network Externalities

Posted on April 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol �ystein Fjeldstad, Norwegian School of Management, Espen R. Moen, Norwegian School of Management, and Christian Riis, Norwegian School of Management have a new paper on Competition with Local Network Externalities. ABSTRACT: Local network externalities are...

Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers

Posted on April 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon P. Anderson, University of Virginia (UVA) - Department of Economics and John McLaren, University of Virginia have some interesting findings on Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers. ABSTRACT: We present an economic...

The Plausibility of Twombly: Proving Horizontal Agreements after Twombly

Posted on April 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alvin K. Klevorick, Yale University - Law School and Issa Kohler-Hausmann, New York University explain The Plausibility of Twombly: Proving Horizontal Agreements after Twombly. ABSTRACT: We address a longstanding issue in antitrust doctrine: what must...

Competition Policy and Financial Distress

Posted on April 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ezra Friedman, Yale University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - School of Law and Marco Ottaviani, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management provide thoughts on Competition Policy and Financial Distress...

Department of Justice and USDA Announce Poultry Workshop on May 21 in Alabama

Posted on April 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today additional details regarding the public workshop that will be held on May 21 at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Ala., to explore...

Price Discrimination, Two-Sided Markets, and Net Neutrality Regulation

Posted on April 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Weisman, Kansas State University - Department of Economics and Robert B. Kulick, Navigant Economics have posted Price Discrimination, Two-Sided Markets, and Net Neutrality Regulation. ABSTRACT: In an October 22, 2009 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,...

Efficiency and Market Power Gains in Megabank Mergers

Posted on April 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Erik Devos, University of Texas at El Paso - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance, Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, NC State University, SUNY at Binghamton - School of Management, and Rajesh P. Narayanan,...

Costs, demand, and producer price changes

Posted on April 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Claire Loupias (Banque de France) and Patrick Sevestre (Paris School of Economics, Universit� de Paris I - Panth�on Sorbonne) examine Costs, demand, and producer price changes. ABSTRACT: We estimate an ordered probit model in order...

When are Excessive Prices Unfair?

Posted on April 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pinar Akman, University of East Anglia - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - Norwich Law School and Luke Garrod, University of East Anglia - ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and School of...

The Impact of Behavioral Economics on Consumer and Competition Policies

Posted on April 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eliana Garc�s (European Commission) analyzes The Impact of Behavioral Economics on Consumer and Competition Policies. ABSTRACT: Interesting questions are being asked about the policy implications of relaxing commonly held assumptions about how people make decisions...

Behavioral Economics and Merger Analysis

Posted on April 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alison Oldale (U.K. Competition Commission) explains Behavioral Economics and Merger Analysis. ABSTRACT: The papers in this volume by Eliana Garc�s, and Matthew Bennett, John Fingleton, Amelia Fletcher, Liz Hurley & David Ruck provide a very...

Competition and productivity: a review of evidence

Posted on April 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr. summarize Competition and productivity: a review of evidence. ABSTRACT: Does competition spur productivity? And if so, how does it do so? These have long been regarded as...

Robustness to strategic uncertainty in price competition

Posted on April 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ola Andersson (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics), C�dric Argenton (Tilburg University), and J�rgen Weibull (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics) explore Robustness to strategic uncertainty in price competition...

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