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Pay-for-Delay: How Drug Company Pay-Offs Cost Consumers Billions

Posted on January 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC has released a study Pay-for-Delay: How Drug Company Pay-Offs Cost Consumers Billions.

The economic performance of cartels: evidence from the New Deal U.S. sugar manufacturing cartel, 1934-74

Posted on January 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Benjamin Bridgman (Bureau of Economic Analysis), Shi Qi (University of Minnesota), and James A. Schmitz, Jr (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) analyze The economic performance of cartels: evidence from the New Deal U.S. sugar manufacturing...

Incomplete Regulation, Competition and Entry in Increasing Returns to Scale Industries

Posted on January 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sara BIANCINI (THEMA, Université de Cergy Pontoise) explains Incomplete Regulation, Competition and Entry in Increasing Returns to Scale Industries. ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the effects of liberalization in increasing returns to scale industries...

Minimum Resale Price Maintenance: Some Empirical Evidence from Maryland

Posted on January 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Elizabeth M. Bailey and Gregory K. Leonard (both NERA) explain Minimum Resale Price Maintenance: Some Empirical Evidence from Maryland. ABSTRACT: The Supreme Court?s decision in Leegin was, and continues to be, controversial...

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Second Annual Conference on Competition Enforcement in the Recently Acceded Member States

Posted on January 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Second Annual Conference on Competition Enforcement in the Recently Acceded Member States Why? Countries that recently acceded to the European Union have long history with competition law. Most of these countries also represent smaller, open...

Model for Studying Commodity Bundling with a Focus on Consumer Preference

Posted on January 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jungwoo Shin, Chang Seob Kimi, and Jongsu Lee (Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program(TEMEP), Seoul National University) create a Model for Studying Commodity Bundling with a Focus on Consumer Preference. ABSTRACT: This research complements demand...

Does cartel leadership facilitate collusion?

Posted on January 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marc Escrihuela-Villar (Universitat de les Illes Balears) asks Does cartel leadership facilitate collusion? ABSTRACT: We discuss the implications of a Stackelberg sequence of play between a cartel and the fringe. We consider two different approaches...

Predatory Pricing, Recoupment, and Consumers? Reaction

Posted on January 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lisa Bruttel - University of Konstanz, Faculty of Economics and Jochen Glöckner - University of Konstanz, Faculty of Law explain Predatory Pricing, Recoupment, and Consumers? Reaction. ABSTRACT: This paper tests two basic assumptions underlying court...

Chinese Merger Control: Patterns and Implications

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Xinzhu Zhang (Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (JXUFE); Special-term Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE); Director of the Research Central for Regulation and Competition (RCRC), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and Vanessa...

Anticompetitive vertical mergers waves

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Johan Hombert (CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - INSEE - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique), Jérôme Pouyet (Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS), and Nicolas Schutz...

Job Opening in the OECD Competition Division in Paris ? Deadline for applications is 22 January 2010

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the OECD announcement: We are looking for a Senior Competition Expert to organise and lead seminars and other activities with a view to enhancing competition law enforcement and competition policy in member and non-member...

Upstream Competition between Vertically Integrated Firms

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marc Bourreau (Institut Télécom, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - INSEE - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique), Johan Hombert (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - INSEE -...

Best Antitrust Conference of the Year - Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference at NYU

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The best conference of the year is free! NYU School of Law American Association of Law Schools ? Antitrust American Bar Association ? Section of Antitrust Law are co-sponsors of the Next Generation of Antitrust...

CARTEL SANCTIONS AND THE BALANCE OF OPTIMAL ENFORCEMENT

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual Forum on Antitrust and Regulation: CARTEL SANCTIONS AND THE BALANCE OF OPTIMAL ENFORCEMENT to be held on 4 February...

Job Opening in the OECD Competition Division for Position in Mexico ? Deadline for applications is 15 January 2010

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the OECD announcement: We are looking for a senior expert with experience in competition policy analysis, regulation and the application of policies to regulations. This expert would be a key member of a team...

Uniltaeral, Anticompetitive Acquisitions of Dominance or Monopoly Power

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Avishalom Tor (Haifa - Law) has posted Uniltaeral, Anticompetitive Acquisitions of Dominance or Monopoly Power. ABSTRACT: The prohibition of certain types of anticompetitive unilateral conduct by firms possessing a substantial degree of market power is...

Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Unilateral Conduct Cases - The Interaction between the Economic Review of the Prohibition of Abuses of Dominant Positions and Private Enforcement

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law explains Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Unilateral Conduct Cases - The Interaction between the Economic Review of the Prohibition of...

China?s Antimonopoly Law?One Year Down Part 7 - ?The Emperor is Far Away?: Administrative Monopolies in China

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by Wentong Zheng A discussion of antitrust in China would not be complete without discussing the problem of ?administrative monopolies,? or anticompetitive conducts by government agencies. Because of the ubiquity of administrative monopolies in China, it is befitting to...

The Private Competition Enforcement Review - 2nd Edition

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Law Reviews: The Private Competition Enforcement Review - 2nd Edition ISSN: 0-9542890-8-0 $375 (USD) Editor: Ilene Knable Gotts Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Visit The Law Reviews website View Sample Private antitrust litigation has...

American Needle Supreme Court Transcript

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Available here.

Product Market Power and Stock Market Liquidity

Posted on January 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jayant R. Kale, Georgia State University and Yee Cheng Loon, SUNY - Binghamton analyze Product Market Power and Stock Market Liquidity. ABSTRACT: Theory predicts that since a firm with market power has more stable cash...

New Competition Law Blog

Posted on January 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cosmo Graham (University of Leicester - Law and self described "Grumpy old sceptical academic") has joined the blogosphere with the Competition Law Blog.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Relationship Between Leagues and Players: Insights and Implications

Posted on January 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael McCann, Vermont Law School has written on Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Relationship Between Leagues and Players: Insights and Implications. ABSTRACT: This Essay examines U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor?s important role in shaping...

CPI Rolls out New Website

Posted on January 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competition Policy International has rolled out the new website for Commentary. Check it out here.

Developing Countries and International Competition Law and Policy

Posted on January 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kathryn McMahon, University of Warwick - School of Law has a new paper on Developing Countries and International Competition Law and Policy. ABSTRACT: The breakdown in the negotiations for the adoption of multilateral competition rules...

The Role of Competition in Public Policy

Posted on January 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Role of Competition in Public Policy Joint conference of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Regulatory Policy Institute 8th March 2010 One Great George Street, Westminster, London Writing about the purposes of the...

China?s Antimonopoly Law?One Year Down: Part 6. Bigger is Better? Tensions Between Industrial Policy and Antitrust in China

Posted on January 11, 2010
Posted by Wentong Zheng As I mentioned in my previous post on this space (see here), one challenge China faces in implementing the AML and more generally its competition policy is that promoting competition is not always the only or...

Financial Reform and the Big 4 Audit Firms

Posted on January 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bernard Ascher and Albert A. Foer, both of the American Antitrust Institute have a new working paper on Financial Reform and the Big 4 Audit Firms. ABSTRACT: The world?s audit industry is concentrated in the...

FTC Act Section 5 Blog Symposium on Intel Case Wrap Up

Posted on January 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thanks to all of our participants for their comments: Part 1. Josh Wright (George Mason) Part 2. Keith Hylton (BU) Part 3. Bob Lande (Baltimore) Part 4. Dan Crane (Michigan) Part 5. Geoff Manne (Lewis...

Canadian Competition Bureau Publishes Competitor Collaboration Guidelines

Posted on January 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competitor Collaboration Guidelines Enforcement Guidelines December 23, 2009 (PDF; 574 KB; 63 Pages)

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