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When Caught with Your Hand in the Cookie Jar...Argue Standing

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jay L. Himes (Labaton Sucharow) explains that When Caught with Your Hand in the Cookie Jar...Argue Standing. ABSTRACT: In Walker Process v. Food Mach. & Chemical Corp., the Supreme Court held that a patent holder...

The Role of Static and Dynamic Analysis in Pharmaceutical Antitrust

Posted on February 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Rosch (FTC) has given a speech on The Role of Static and Dynamic Analysis in Pharmaceutical Antitrust.

Coordinated Remedies: Convergence, Cooperation, and the Role of Transparency

Posted on February 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christine Varney gave a speech Coordinated Remedies: Convergence, Cooperation, and the Role of Transparency at the Institute of Competition Law New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference on February 15, 2010.

Back from Paris - and some OECD News

Posted on February 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am back from the OECDCompetition Committee meeting in Paris. There were some interesting developments. Joe Phillips is retiring as head of the Competition Committee. Mike Wise, who has written over 50 peer reviews and...

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Crime and Custom in the Dutch Construction Industry

Posted on February 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marc Hertogh, University of Groningen - Faculty of Law has written on Crime and Custom in the Dutch Construction Industry. ABSTRACT: In 2001, the construction industry in the Netherlands was at the heart of many...

Intellectual Property And The Limits Of Antitrust

Posted on February 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Katarzyna Czapracka (White & Case) has a new book out on Intellectual Property And The Limits Of Antitrust. BOOK ABSTRACT: The scope of US antitrust law as defined in the Supreme Court?s decisions in Trinko...

Single-Firm Conduct: A Discipline in Search of Itself (Try with Google?)

Posted on February 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Roberto Pardolesi, Libera Universit� degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli and Luca Arnaudo, Libera Universit� degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli have written on Single-Firm Conduct: A Discipline in Search of Itself (Try with Google?)...

Dr. Alexander Italianer in Philip Lowe out as Director-General for Competition

Posted on February 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A bio on Italianer is available here.

Merger control as barrier to EU banking market integration

Posted on February 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthias K�hler (ZEW) has posted Merger control as barrier to EU banking market integration. ABSTRACT: In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for prudential reasons...

Robust Exclusion Through Loyalty Discounts

Posted on February 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge, Harvard University - Harvard Law School and Abraham L. Wickelgren, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law have posted the very interesting Robust Exclusion Through Loyalty Discounts. ABSTRACT: We consider loyalty...

Bridging the Divide? Theories for Integrating Competition Law and Consumer Protection

Posted on February 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Max Huffman, Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis provides his thoughts on Bridging the Divide? Theories for Integrating Competition Law and Consumer Protection. ABSTRACT: Commissioner Kovacic of the US Federal Trade Commission has stated...

Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts

Posted on February 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Giacomo Calzolari, University of Bologna - Department of Economics, and Vincenzo Denicol�, University of Bologna - Department of Economics describe Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts. ABSTRACT: We study the effects of exclusive contracts...

Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control

Posted on February 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kai H�schelrath (ZEW - Economics) explains Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control. ABSTRACT: The last couple of years have seen an increasing interest in critical loss analysis, both, in academia and in...

Iqbal, Twombly, and the Expected Cost of False Positive Errors

Posted on February 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Max Huffman Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis and Mark Anderson University of Idaho - College of Law have written on Iqbal, Twombly, and the Expected Cost of False Positive Errors. ABSTRACT: The Twombly/Iqbal....

A framework to enforce anti-predation rules

Posted on February 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kai H�schelrath and J�rgen Weigand (both ZEW - Econ) have posted A framework to enforce anti-predation rules. ABSTRACT: The paper develops a framework to enforce anti-predation rules that explicitly takes the intervention stage into account...

OECD Competition Committee Meeting in Paris

Posted on February 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am in Paris today at the OECD meeting. I am presenting my work on comparative corporate governance and competition policy. Those presenting on the topic of Competition and Corporate Governance are: Marcello Bianchi, chair....

Speech by new European Competition Commissioner Joaqu�n Almunia Lays out Vision

Posted on February 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol He has communicated his vision for competition policy. See here.

Are There Any Cournot Industries?

Posted on February 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Flath (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) asks Are There Any Cournot Industries? ABSTRACT: For 70 Japanese manufacturing industries, I test the simple Cournot hypothesis of proportionality between industry price-cost margin and...

On the sustainability of collusion in Bertrand supergames with discrete pricing and nonlinear demand

Posted on February 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Zimmerman (FTC) provides his thoughts On the sustainability of collusion in Bertrand supergames with discrete pricing and nonlinear demand. ABSTRACT: In traditional industrial organization models of Bertrand supergames, the critical discount factor governing the...

Quantum Model of Bertrand Duopoly

Posted on February 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Salman Khan, M. Ramzan, and M. K. Khan (all Department of Physics Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan) explain Quantum Model of Bertrand Duopoly. ABSTRACT: We present the quantum model of Bertrand duopoly and study the entanglement behaviour...

The Relation between Competition and Innovation -- Why is it Such a Mess?

Posted on February 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Armin Schmutzler, University of Zurich - Socioeconomic Institute, asks The Relation between Competition and Innovation -- Why is it Such a Mess? ABSTRACT: Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing...

Competition Policy and Comparative Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises

Posted on February 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol. D. Daniel Sokol (University of Florida - Law) analyzes Competition Policy and Comparative Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises. ABSTRACT: The legal origins literature overlooks a key area of corporate governance - the governance of state-owned...

Dominance and Innovation

Posted on February 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chander Velu (Cambridge - Judge School of Business) and Sriya Iyer (Cambridge - Econ) address Dominance and Innovation. ABSTRACT: Do dominant or less dominant firms innovate more? Theoretically it has been shown that within an...

Pricing in Matching Markets

Posted on February 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol George J. Mailath (University of Pennsylvania), Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania), and Larry Samuelson (Cowles Foundation, Yale University) examine Pricing in Matching Markets. ABSTRACT: Different markets are cleared by different types of prices -- a...

Antitrust in the Energy Sector Symposium Issue

Posted on February 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Oil Gas Energy Law Intelligence Journal has published its symposium Antitrust in the Energy Sector. Antitrust in the Energy Sector Editorial OGEL Special Issue - Antitrust in the Energy Sector N. Petit, University of...

Merger Remedies Versus Efficiency Defence: An Analysis of Merging Parties? Litigation Strategy in EC Merger Cases

Posted on February 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter L. Ormosi, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, has a paper on Merger Remedies Versus Efficiency Defence: An Analysis of Merging Parties? Litigation Strategy in EC Merger Cases. ABSTRACT: This paper...

Did We Avoid Historical Failures of Antitrust Enforcement During the 2008-09 Financial Crisis?

Posted on February 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Crane (Michigan Law) has posted Did We Avoid Historical Failures of Antitrust Enforcement During the 2008-09 Financial Crisis? ABSTRACT: This introductory essay for a symposium on antitrust enforcement during economic crises provides a brief...

The Economics of Railroad ?Captive Shipper? Legislation

Posted on February 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Russ Pittman (DOJ) has an interesting new work on The Economics of Railroad ?Captive Shipper? Legislation. ABSTRACT: Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory reforms in the...

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Peter Carstensen

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by Peter Carstensen (University of Wisconsin Law) I have elsewhere commented on issues related to agricultural markets (available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1537191). Two antitrust exemptions apply to farmers: Capper-Volstead Act and the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act (AMAA)...

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Andy Novakovic

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by Andy Novakovic (Cornell - Agriculture and Applied Economics) The nature of competition the market for farm milk has been the subject of discussion and dispute from the earliest formation of modern dairy markets in the 1800s. Between about...

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