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8th Experts' Forum on New Developments in European State Aid Law

Posted on April 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 8th Experts' Forum on New Developments in European State Aid Law 9 June 2010, Workshop, Le Châtelain, Brussels 10/11 June 2010, Conference, Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels Conference on 10 & 11 June 2010 Regular: ? 765,?...

Class Certification in Antitrust Cases: An Economic Framework

Posted on April 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hal J. Singer, Navigant Economics LLC and Robert B. Kulick, Navigant Economics address Class Certification in Antitrust Cases: An Economic Framework. ABSTRACT: A number of recent appellate court decisions pertaining to class certification in antitrust...

What Does Behavioral Economics Mean for Competition Policy?

Posted on April 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthew Bennett, John Fingleton, Amelia Fletcher, Liz Hurley, & David Ruck (U.K. Office of Fair Trading) ask What Does Behavioral Economics Mean for Competition Policy? ABSTRACT: This paper looks at whether behavioral economics fundamentally changes...

Is the Guidance Paper on the Commission?s Enforcement Priorities in Applying Article 102 TFEU to Abusive Exclusionary Conduct Useful?

Posted on April 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Geradin, Howrey LLP, Tilburg University - Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), University of Michigan Law asks Is the Guidance Paper on the Commission?s Enforcement Priorities in Applying Article 102 TFEU to Abusive Exclusionary...

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ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting Begins Tomorrow

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wednesday begins the ever important ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting - the most attended and most important antitrust conference every year. Spring Meeting 2010 We hope you are planning to be in Washington for the 58th...

The Role of Behavioral Economics in Competition Law: A Judicial Perspective

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vivien Rose (U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal) explains The Role of Behavioral Economics in Competition Law: A Judicial Perspective. ABSTRACT: To date, the literature on the role of behavioral economics in the context of competition policy...

Professor Robert Pitofsky Receives the Justice Department's 2010 John Sherman Award

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In recogonition for a lifetime of important academic and policy contributions, the DOJ has awarded Bob Pitofsky its John Sherman Award. The DOJ press release is here.

The Limits of Antitrust and the Chicago School Tradition

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol George Priest (Yale Law) offers his thoughts on The Limits of Antitrust and the Chicago School Tradition. ABSTRACT: I situate Frank Easterbrook's article, The Limits of Antitrust, within the Chicago School antitrust tradition...

Efficiency and Market Power Gains in Megabank Mergers

Posted on April 20, 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,...

Draft Merger Guidelines for Public Comment Released

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The DOJ and FTC have released the new draft Merger Guidelines for public comment on the eve of the Spring Meeting. It should make the meeting even more exciting this year. I was away from...

An Introduction to Competition Law and Policy in the Modern Automobile Industry

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Conor C. Talbot, European University Institute - Department of Law provides An Introduction to Competition Law and Policy in the Modern Automobile Industry. ABSTRACT: The automobile sector is one that never ceases to demand the...

Antitrust Division Issues 2010 Edition of Its Annual Newsletter

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued its annual newsletter today, which can be found here.

How Does Competition Impact Bank Risk-Taking?

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gabriel Jiménez (Banco de España), Jose A. Lopez (Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco), and Jesús Saurina (Banco de España) ask How Does Competition Impact Bank Risk-Taking? ABSTRACT: A common assumption in the academic literature...

Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for Offline vs. Online Media

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dirk Bergemann (Cowles Foundation, Yale University) and Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management) provide theire thoughts on Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for Offline vs. Online Media. ABSTRACT: We develop a model with many...

Global Competition Law, Markets and Globalization

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Gerber (Chicago Kent) has produced a marvelous piece of scholarship in Global Competition Law, Markets and Globalization. This is a book that I encourage all competition academics and practitioners to buy. ABSTRACT: Global competition...

Predatory Pricing - Economics and Law in the United States and the European Union

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adrian Emch, Sidley Austin LLP and Gregory K. Leonard, National Economic Research Associates Inc. address Predatory Pricing - Economics and Law in the United States and the European Union. ABSTRACT: We discuss the history of...

The Future of Behavioral Economics in Antitrust Jurisprudence

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Douglas H. Ginsburg (U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit) & Derek W. Moore (Cadwalader) offer insights into The Future of Behavioral Economics in Antitrust Jurisprudence. ABSTRACT: Neoclassical economics or ?price theory? has had...

On price taking behavior in a nonrenewable resource cartel-fringe game

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hassan Benchekroun (McGill - Econ) and Cees Withagen (VU University Amsterdam) provide thoughts On price taking behavior in a nonrenewable resource cartel-fringe game. ABSTRACT: We consider a nonrenewable resource game with one cartel and a...

Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Posted on April 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Harbord and Market Analysis Ltd and Steffen Hoernig, Universidade Nova de Lisboa explain Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger). ABSTRACT: This paper presents...

Antitrust between EU law and National law

Posted on April 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust between EU law and National law The Treviso conference on ?Antitrust between EU law and National law?, now in its ninth edition, takes place every two years in Treviso since 1992; it is hosted...

Behavioral Economics as Applied to Firms: A Primer

Posted on April 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Armstrong & Steffen Huck (University College London) provide the usefulBehavioral Economics as Applied to Firms: A Primer. ABSTRACT: We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality, and experimental economics as they apply to...

Dynamic Price Competition with Fixed Capacities

Posted on April 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kalyan Talluri (IESE Business School,) and Víctor Martínez de Albéniz ( ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) have a new paper on Dynamic Price Competition with Fixed Capacities. ABSTRACT: Many revenue management (RM) industries are characterized...

Price and Quality Competition

Posted on April 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioana Chioveanu (UCL) describes Price and Quality Competition. ABSTRACT: This study considers an oligopoly model with simultaneous price and quality choice. Ex-ante homogeneous sellers compete by offering products at one of two quality levels...

The Failed Resurrection of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory

Posted on April 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge (Harvard Law School) describes The Failed Resurrection of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory. ABSTRACT: Professor Paul Seabright claims that an absence of empirical proof supports the single monopoly profit theory...

Goals of Competition Law

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The 5th ASCOLA Conference ?Goals of Competition Law? May 27-29, 2010 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Bonn, Germany Download ASCOLA_Bonn_Final_Program

The Automobile Aftermarket: Crash Parts, Design Patents, and the Escape from Competition

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Norman W. Hawker, Western Michigan University - Haworth College of Business explores The Automobile Aftermarket: Crash Parts, Design Patents, and the Escape from Competition. ABSTRACT: Automobile manufacturers have increasingly relied on design patents to prevent...

Google and the Limits of Antitrust: The Case Against the Antitrust Case Against Google

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Geoffrey A. Manne, Executive Director, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Lecturer in Law, Lewis & Clark Law School and Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law explain Google and the Limits...

April 2010 Antitrust Source is Out

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See here.

Criminal Antitrust Law Enforcement in Germany: ?The Whole Point is Lost If You Keep it a Secret! Why Didn?t You Tell the World, Eh??

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Florian Wagner von Papp (UCL - Law) has a new chapter on Criminal Antitrust Law Enforcement in Germany: ?The Whole Point is Lost If You Keep it a Secret! Why Didn?t You Tell the World,...

Réforme des restrictions verticales: Les enjeux de l'entrée en vigueur du nouveau règlement communautaire

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Réforme des restrictions verticales: Les enjeux de l'entrée en vigueur du nouveau règlement communautaire 08.30 Inscription & Petit-déjeuner 08.45 Présentation du nouveau règlement et des lignes directrices Katja VIERTIO, DG Concurrence, Commission européenne, Unité A2...

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