Corporate & Securities Law

India's New Competition Regime: The Elephant Who Became a Tiger

Posted on February 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Sansom (Freshfields) and Priya Christian describe India's New Competition Regime: The Elephant Who Became a Tiger. ABSTRACT: After a wait of more than six years, India has begun to bring into force the provisions...

A Question for Our Readers Regarding Public Opinion

Posted on February 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Other than the survey of British public opinion on cartels that Andreas Stephan undertook in 2007, is any practitioner or academic aware of any other sucvh survey of public opnions on cartel issues in any...

Technology Transfer, Competition Law and Developing Countries : A Means of Loosening the Dependency Ties

Posted on February 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Obinne Obiefuna, University of Essex - School of Law, analyzes Technology Transfer, Competition Law and Developing Countries : A Means of Loosening the Dependency Ties. ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the interaction between transfer of technology...

Leegin, The Political Backlash

Posted on February 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Roger Blair (University of Florida - Econ) & Jessica Haynes (University of Florida - Econ) explainLeegin, The Political Backlash. ABSTRACT: In 1911, the Supreme Court addressed resale price maintenance (?RPM?) for the first time...

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The Amended Google Books Settlement is Still Exclusive

Posted on February 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol James Grimmelmann (New York Law School) argues The Amended Google Books Settlement is Still Exclusive\. ABSTRACT: The deal that Google would get under the proposed amended settlement in the Authors Guild case is exclusive in...

Book Review of The Competition Law of the European Union in Comparative Perspective

Posted on February 03, 2010
We are glad to welcome Kevin Coates of DG Competition (and a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law) to review Eleanor Fox's Book Review of The Competition Law of the European Union in Comparative Perspective. Posted by Kevin Coates...

The Application of EC Competition Law in the Energy Sector

Posted on February 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ulrich Scholz and Stephan Purps (both Freshfields) analyze The Application of EC Competition Law in the Energy Sector. ABSTRACT: This article describes the main developments in the application of EC Competition law in the energy...

NYU Annual Survey of American Law Symposium "Critical Directions in Antitrust"

Posted on February 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol NYU Annual Survey of American Law Symposium "Critical Directions in Antitrust" Greenberg Lounge Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South Friday, February 19, 2010 9:30 AM ? 4:00 PM Please join us for this symposium, which....

Coordinated Effects

Posted on February 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Janusz A. Ordover (NYU - Econ) has written a nice overview of Coordinated Effects. ABSTRACT: The analysis of potential coordinated effects of mergers has moved from an unvarnished reliance on the ?structural? presumption that simply...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Information Age

Posted on February 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Phil Weiser (DOJ) has posted his remarks Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Information Age.

State Enforcement of Resale Price Maintenance Prohibitions After Leegin: Policy Without Principle

Posted on February 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Olsky (Wilmer Hale) explains State Enforcement of Resale Price Maintenance Prohibitions After Leegin: Policy Without Principle. ABSTRACT: Over the past three years, certain state attorneys general have spoken out strongly against Resale Price Maintenance...

Two Watersheds: The New Case Law of Bundles, Rebates and Class Certification

Posted on January 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Two Watersheds: The New Case Law of Bundles, Rebates and Class Certification Sponsored by Empiris LLC & O?Melveny & Myers LLP Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:30 a.m. ? 12:15 p.m. Willard InterContinental Washington The Willard....

The New DOJ: Lessons Learned From the Ticketmaster Live Nation Decision

Posted on January 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan Meese (William & Mary Law) and Barak Richman (Duke Law) have an interesting op-ed on The New DOJ: Lessons Learned From the Ticketmaster Live Nation Decision worth reading. It also mentions their academic work...

Robert D. Joffe, 1943-2010

Posted on January 31, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert D. Joffe, a Cravath antitrust partner and former managing partner died on Thursday of pancreatic cancer. The NY Times obituary is avaiable here.

Conference on Antitrust Litigation - Conflict of Laws and Coordination

Posted on January 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Conference on ?Antitrust Litigation - Conflict of Laws and Coordination? With the decentralization of competition law enforcement and the development of private damages actions in the European Union as well as with the increasingly international...

Strategic Vertical Separation

Posted on January 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Igor Sloev (Humboldt University Berlin) analyzes Strategic Vertical Separation. ABSTRACT: The paper explores incentives for strategic vertical separation of firms in a framework of a simple duopoly model. Each firm chooses either to be a...

Product variety, price elasticity of demand and fixed cost in spatial models

Posted on January 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yiquan Gu, Technische Universit¨at Dortmund and Tobias Wenzel, Universit at Erlangen-Nurnberg determine Product variety, price elasticity of demand and fixed cost in spatial models. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the implications of price-dependent demand in spatial...

Indirect network effects with two Salop circles: the example of the music industry

Posted on January 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ralf Dewenter- TU Ilmenau, Justus Haucap- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Tobias Wenzel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg explain Indirect network effects with two Salop circles: the example of the music industry. ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the interdependency...

Advertising, Product Differentiation and Cooperation

Posted on January 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Moshe Bar-Niv (Burnovski) Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law and Israel Zang explain Advertising, Product Differentiation and Cooperation. ABSTRACT: Collaboration among sizeable competitors is usually considered to be harmful to social welfare while...

Monitoring Costs and the Law of Franchise Tying Contracts: A Behavioral Perspective

Posted on January 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Uri Benoliel, Academic Center of Law & Business analyzes Monitoring Costs and the Law of Franchise Tying Contracts: A Behavioral Perspective. ABSTRACT: Traditional law-and-economics analysis suggests that the per se illegality rule that governs franchise...

Am I a Price-Fixer? A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Cartels

Posted on January 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice "My Middle name is 'Eital' but it really should be 'I eat, read and sleep Behavioral Economics'" Stucke (Tennessee - Law) asks, Am I a Price-Fixer? A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Cartels. ABSTRACT: This...

Farrell and Shapiro: The Sequel

Posted on January 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gregory K. Leonard (NERA) and Mario A. Lopez (NERA) have written on Farrell and Shapiro: The Sequel. ABSTRACT: A review of the writings of Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro suggest directions they may take antitrust...

An Update on the Review of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on January 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christine Varney (DOJ) provides An Update on the Review of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Conditioning prices on search behaviour

Posted on January 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Amstrong (UCL - Econ) and Jidong Zhou (UCL - Econ) explain Conditioning prices on search behaviour. ABSTRACT: We consider a market in which firms can partially observe each consumer's search behavior in the market....

Post-Sale Restraints and Competitive Harm

Posted on January 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp, University of Iowa College of Law, has new paper. This one is titled Post-Sale Restraints and Competitive Harm. Herb is both amazingly prolific and insightful. How he manages to write so much and...

Barry Hawk Returns to Fordham to Full Time Director Role for Competition Law Institute

Posted on January 27, 2010
Fordham Competition Law Institute The Fordham Competition Law Institute is happy to announce that Barry Hawk has returned to Fordham as full-time Director of the Institute.

Competition Among the Big and the Small

Posted on January 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Jacques-François Thisse (CREA, University of Luxembourg) have a new paper on Competition Among the Big and the Small. ABSTRACT: Armchair evidence shows that many industries are made of a few big commercial...

Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog Online Symposium on Competition in Agriculture Coming Soon

Posted on January 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The week of February 8, 2010, we will host an online symposium of a number of professors on competition in agriculture, which will include some discussion of antitrust/IP issues. More details to follow once we...

Submarket Dynamics and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Tire Industry

Posted on January 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Guido Buenstorf and Steven Klepper write on Submarket Dynamics and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Tire Industry. ABSTRACT: Beginning in 1922, the rate of exit of U.S. tire producers increased sharply and the industry...

The (Early) Triumph of Law and Entrepreneurship

Posted on January 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Because there is some overlap between entrepreneurship and antitrust, I include a cross post that I wrote for the Faculty Lounge. How do you know that a field has "made it" in the legal academy?...

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