Corporate & Securities Law

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Kyle Stiegert

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by Kyle Stiegert (University of Wisconsin, Agriculture and Applied Economics) Over just 15 years, the development of seeds for corn, soybean, and cotton farmers have changed from a traditional breeding approach to a system that involves breeding with the...

Competition Policies in Latin America Blog

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The blog "Derecho de la Competencia" has migrated to a new domain, www.lalibrecompetencia.com. Furthermore the blog has a new design and its name has been reformulated as "Competition policies in Latin America" ("Políticas de Libre...

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Scott Kieff, Geoff Manne, and Josh Wright

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by Scott Kieff (GW Law), Geoff Manne (Lewis & Clark Law), and Josh Wright (George Mason Law) Regarding firm size and integration, it must be kept in mind that the agriculture industry in the U.S. has, for good reasons,...

Wrap up of Competition in Agriculture Blog Symposium

Posted on February 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I want to thank our contributors. Below are links to the various posts: Andy Novakovic (Cornell - Agriculture and Applied Economics) Kyle Stiegert (University of Wisconsin, Agriculture and Applied Economics) Scott Kieff (GW Law), Geoff...

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Competition in Agriculture Blog Symposium Begins Today

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Day 1 of what promises to be an excellent symposium on Competition in Agriculture (I have already read the posts) is today. Stay tuned.

Payment scale economies, competition, and pricing

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David B. Humphrey (Department of Finance, Florida State University) describes Payment scale economies, competition, and pricing. ABSTRACT: Payment scale economies affect banking costs, competition in payment services, and pricing...

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Mike Sykuta

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by Mike Sykuta (Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia) Learn from history, don?t repeat it. Antitrust laws originated in Midwest state like Missouri in the late 1880s when small farmers banded together in the face of falling agricultural...

Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Jeff Harrison

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by Jeff Harrison (University of Florida Levin College of Law) There seems to be little doubt that buyers in many sectors of agricultural markets possess monopsony power. A typical scenario is one in which growers make substantial investments in...

Competition in Agriculture Syposium Post: Comments of Ron Cass

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by Ron Cass (Chairman, Center for the Rule of Law and Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law) USDA and DOJ inquiries into competition in agriculture could recast antitrust law as substantially contrary to patent law. A prominent contribution...

THE DIGITAL BROADBAND MIGRATION AND THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: BUILDING THE COMPETITION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY OF THE FUTURE

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bill Kovacic (FTC) has an important new article on THE DIGITAL BROADBAND MIGRATION AND THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: BUILDING THE COMPETITION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY OF THE FUTURE. Download JTHTLv8i1_Kovacic[1]

Barnett Discusses Varney in Interview

Posted on February 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Barnett has an interesting Q&A about his tenure at DOJ Antitrust and what he thinks about the current DOJ Antitrust leadership. See here.

Optimal Collusion with Internal Contracting

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gea M. Lee (Singapore Management University) explains Optimal Collusion with Internal Contracting. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we develop a model of collusion in which two firms play an infinitelyrepeated Bertrand game when each firm has...

Regulating two-sided markets: an empirical investigation

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Santiago Carbó-Valverde (University of Granada, Department of Economic Theory and History), Sujit Chakravorti (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), and Francisco Rodríguez Fernández (University of Granada, Department of Economic Theory and History are investigating Regulating two-sided...

Competition Policy and Regulation in Ports and Shipping

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gilberto M. Llanto, Enrico L. Basilio, Leilanie Basilio (Philippine Institute for Development Studies) analyze Competition Policy and Regulation in Ports and Shipping. ABSTRACT: The Philippines is an archipelago of approximately 7,107 islands...

Competition and Regulation in India, 2009

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competition and Regulation in India, 2009 Edited by Pradeep S Mehta ISBN: 978-81-8257-130-3 The regulatory law and policy differ from sector to sector, as much as financial sectoral regulation will have different approaches to manage...

Pricing payment cards

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Özlem Bedre-Defolie (Toulouse School of Economics) and Emilio Calvano (Department of Economics, Harvard University have written on Pricing payment cards. ABSTRACT: In a payment card association such as Visa, each time a consumer pays by...

The effects of airline alliances: What do the aggregate data say

Posted on February 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Phillipe Gagnepain and Pedro L. Marín (both Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Econ) note The effects of airline alliances: What do the aggregate data say. ABSTRACT: We consider an empirical model of worldwide airline...

Competition and Economic Growth: an Empirical Analysis for a Panel of 20 OECD Countries

Posted on February 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alessandro Diego Scopelliti (University of Warwick, Department of Economics) has written on Competition and Economic Growth: an Empirical Analysis for a Panel of 20 OECD Countries. ABSTRACT: This paper aims at analyzing, from an empirical...

Price regulation in oligopoly

Posted on February 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luis Corchón (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid- Econ) and Félix Marcos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Econ) analyze Price regulation in oligopoly. ABSTRACT: In this paper we consider price regulation in oligopolistic markets when firms are...

Credit card interchange fees

Posted on February 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics) and Julian Wright (Department of Economics, National University of Singapore explain Credit card interchange fees. ABSTRACT: We build a model of credit card pricing that explicitly takes into account...

Do Law Schools (via NALP) Have a Competition Problem?

Posted on February 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Read the story in the ABA Journal here. Also, read the Jones Day analysis of the NALP plan here. HT: Chris Sagers

Demand Side Merger Efficiencies

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Reitman, Charles River Associates, and Dipan Ghosh, Charles River Associates have posted Demand Side Merger Efficiencies. ABSTRACT: Mergers can generate demand side efficiencies that benefit customers in a number of ways, including procurement savings,...

Just What the Doctor Ordered, A Second Opinion for Vertical Price Fixing

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jay Himes & Morissa Falk (both Labaton Sucharow) offer Just What the Doctor Ordered, A Second Opinion for Vertical Price Fixing. ABSTRACT: The arguments that gained favor in Leegin were repackaged old chestnuts?and are no...

Competition in Agriculture Online Symposium Next Week

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With some invitations still outstanding, I am happy to report that we have what is shaping up to be a very interesting online symposium. The Department of Justice and US Department of Agriculture announced in...

Posner still believes in Chicago School Antitrust (Even if he has a new love for Keynes)

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See Posner's letter to the editor in today's WSJ. He notes, "My views on antitrust have not changed. I believe that Keynes has much to teach us about the role of government in digging an...

DOJ Submits Views on Amended Google Book Search Settlement

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DOJ sees progress but still is not happy. See here for details.

State Aid to Banks in the Financial Crisis: The Past and the Future

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Emily Adler, James Kavanagh, and Alexander Ugryumov (all Oxera) offer their thoughts on State Aid to Banks in the Financial Crisis: The Past and the Future. ABSTRACT: This Economist's Note considers the use of state...

We Have Herb Hovenkamp Visiting Us For the Next Two Days at the University of Florida

Posted on February 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This week we have the great pleasure of welcoming Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) to the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Herb is the inaugural Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series speaker on U.S....

For the Love of Culture Google, copyright, and our future

Posted on February 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Larry Lessig has weighed in on the Google settlement in the New Republic with an article titled For the Love of Culture Google, copyright, and our future.

A Civil Conflict: Can the States Overturn Leegin?

Posted on February 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Leiv Blad & Bryan Killian (both Bingham McKutchen) ask A Civil Conflict: Can the States Overturn Leegin? ABSTRACT: Overturning a 96-year-old rule, the United States Supreme Court held in Leegin that minimum resale price maintenance...

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