Corporate & Securities Law

Getting The Deal Through: Intellectual Property and Antitrust 2011

Posted on February 28, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Global Competition Review is pleased to announce the publication of Getting The Deal Through: Intellectual Property and Antitrust 2011. This fully revised and updated 5th edition offers the reader coverage of 23 jurisdictions worldwide, including...

Best Competition Conference in Asia for 2011 - A Global Competition Law and Economics Series Conference: Competition Law and the State, 18 & 19 March 2011, Hong Kong

Posted on February 27, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A Global Competition Law and Economics Series Conference: Competition Law and the State 18 & 19 March 2011, Hong Kong Conference Schedule Friday 18 March 2011 08:30 Registration 09.00 Welcome and Introduction Professor Dame Hazel...

EU Distribution Law - 5th Ed.

Posted on February 27, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fifth Edition EU Distribution Law Joanna Goyder The new edition of EU Distribution Law, published six years after the previous edition, is concerned with the competition rules prohibiting anti-competitive agreements and behaviour affecting trade between...

Information Exchanges Among Competitors under the New Horizontal Guidelines ? A Few Further Thoughts

Posted on February 26, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andreas Reindl ???provides Information Exchanges Among Competitors under the New Horizontal Guidelines ? A Few Further Thoughts. ?? ABSTRACT: In December 2010 the Commission adopted the revised Horizontal Guidelines with a new chapter on information...

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Product differentiation decisions under ambiguous consumer demand and pessimistic expectations

Posted on February 25, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Król (Economics, The University of Manchester) addresses Product differentiation decisions under ambiguous consumer demand and pessimistic expectations. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the e¤ects of violating the common prior assumption embedded in the Product differentiation...

Regulated Competition Under Increasing Returns to Scale

Posted on February 25, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas Greve, University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics and Hans Keiding, University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics discuss Regulated Competition Under Increasing Returns to Scale. ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a mechanism for the...

Spatial Cournot Competition and Consumers? Heterogeneity: A Note

Posted on February 25, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Corrado Benassi (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) theorizes Spatial Cournot Competition and Consumers? Heterogeneity: A Note. ABSTRACT: We consider the standard model of...

Internet Retailing and ?Free Riding?: A Post-Leegin Antitrust Analysis

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marina Lao (Seton Hall Law) has posted Internet Retailing and ?Free Riding?: A Post-Leegin Antitrust Analysis. ABSTRACT: This article is adapted for the Journal of Internet Law from a more in-depth article that the author...

The Cartel Project: Report on a Survey of the Australian Public Regarding Anti-Cartel Law and Enforcement

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Y. Beaton Wells, Melbourne Law School, Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne - Department of Criminology, Christine Parker, Melbourne Law School - University of Melbourne, and Chris Platania-Phung, University of Melbourne discuss The Cartel Project:...

Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy: A Non-parametric Approach

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rachael E. Goodhue, University of California at Davis-Agricultural and Resource Economics and Carlo Russo, Università degli Studi di Cassino-Facoltà di Economia discuss Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy: A Non-parametric Approach...

The Obama Administration's Innovation Policy

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Obama Administration's Innovation Policy Event In his 2011 State of Union Address, President Obama warned of a "Sputnik moment" and called for the nation to confront our international economic competitiveness and innovation policy challenges...

Does the Packers and Stockyards Act Require Antitrust Harm?

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) asks Does the Packers and Stockyards Act Require Antitrust Harm? ABSTRACT: The Packers and Stockyards Act was enacted in 1921. Congress was plainly influenced by the 1919 publication of a Federal...

ACLE Conference - Call for Papers - deadline for submission is March 1 2011

Posted on February 24, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol ACLE Conference - Call for Papers The Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics at the University of Amsterdam organizes its 7th annual Competition & Regulation meeting on the topic: Competition Policy for Emerging Economies: When...

Semi-collusion in media markets

Posted on February 23, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap, and Tobias Wenzel (all Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics) investigate Semi-collusion in media markets. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the effects that collusion can have in newspaper markets where firms compete for...

Vertical Integration with Complementary Inputs

Posted on February 23, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Markus Reisinger, University of Munich - Economics Department, CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and Emanuele Tarantino, University of Bologna - Department of Economics, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)...

Monopolistic Competition and Product Diversity: Review and Extension

Posted on February 23, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Winston W. Chang, State University of New York - Department of Economics has posted Monopolistic Competition and Product Diversity: Review and Extension. ABSTRACT: The modeling of monopolistic competition has contributed to rapid developments in numerous...

Competition in the Turkish mobile telecommunications market: Price elasticities and network substitution

Posted on February 23, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Justus Haucap (Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics), Ulrich Heimeshoff (Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics), and Mehmet Karacuka (Ege University, Department of Economics) have written on Competition in the Turkish...

Competition Law and the Pharmaceutical Industry conference - 17 May 2011

Posted on February 23, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The conference will be held on 17 May 2011 from 10am to 6pm in the Mary Sunley Building, St Catherines College, Manor Road, Oxford. The Registration Fee includes all conference materials, refreshments and a buffet...

Multiproduct Firms and Price-Setting: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Producer Prices

Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Saroj Bhattarai (Pennsylvania State University) and Raphael Schoenle (Department of Economics, Brandeis University) discuss Multiproduct Firms and Price-Setting: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Producer Prices. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we establish three new facts about...

Price effects of Dutch hospital mergers, An ex post assessment of hip surgery

Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ron Kemp (Netherlands Competition Authority) and Astrid Severijnen (Netherlands Competition Authority) provide Price effects of Dutch hospital mergers, An ex post assessment of hip surgery. ABSTRACT: This study analyses price effects of two mergers in...

Antitrust Seminar on ecent Developments on Cartels - April 11, 2011 in Buenos Aires

Posted on February 22, 2011

The roles of price points and menu costs in price rigidity

Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Edward S. Knotek II (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) explains The roles of price points and menu costs in price rigidity. ABSTRACT: Macroeconomic models often generate nominal price rigidity via menu costs. This paper...

Nash Equilibrium and Robust Stability in Dynamic Games: A Small-Gain Perspective

Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Iasson Karafyllis (Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete), Zhong-Ping Jiang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University) and George Athanasiou (TT Hellenic Postbank) develop Nash Equilibrium and Robust...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Comments to the Commission's Horizontal Guidelines-Standardization

Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jorge Padilla (LECG) has posted The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Comments to the Commission's Horizontal Guidelines-Standardization. ABSTRACT: This note sets out my comments to Section 7 of the Guidelines on the applicability of...

An Economic Defense of Flexibility in IPR Licensing: Contracting Around 'First Sale' in Multilevel Production Settings

Posted on February 21, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anne Layne-Farrar, LECG provides An Economic Defense of Flexibility in IPR Licensing: Contracting Around 'First Sale' in Multilevel Production Settings. ABSTRACT: The legal doctrine of first sale (or exhaustion for patents) dictates that the first...

Recent Developments in Empirical IO: Dynamic Demand and Dynamic Games

Posted on February 21, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Victor Aguirregabiria (Toronto - Econ) and Aviv Nevo (Northwestern College) describe Recent Developments in Empirical IO: Dynamic Demand and Dynamic Games. ABSTRACT: Empirically studying dynamic competition in oligopoly markets requires dealing with large states spaces...

American Needle and Justice Stevens? Supreme Court Antitrust Legacy

Posted on February 21, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Warren S. Grimes, Southwestern Law School describes American Needle and Justice Stevens? Supreme Court Antitrust Legacy. ABSTRACT: Justice John Paul Stevens last antitrust opinion, American Needle Inc. v. NFL, is important for its clarification of...

The Essential Facilities Doctrine Under Scrutiny: EU and US Perspective

Posted on February 21, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ali A. Massadeh, University of East Anglia, School of Law has posted The Essential Facilities Doctrine Under Scrutiny: EU and US Perspective. ABSTRACT: The essential facilities doctrine requires a monopolist or a dominant firm to...

The New EU Competition Rules for the Assessment of Horizontal Agreements

Posted on February 20, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Lugard (Tilburg - Law) discusses The New EU Competition Rules for the Assessment of Horizontal Agreements. ABSTRACT: Following a consultation process of more than two years, the European Commission has now adopted its Guidelines...

Has the European Commission Become More Severe in Punishing Cartles? Effects of the 2006 Guidelines

Posted on February 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Connor (Purdue - Ag Econ) asks Has the European Commission Become More Severe in Punishing Cartles? Effects of the 2006 Guidelines. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the first 13 cartel decisions of the European Commission....

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