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Rhetoric or Reform: Does the Law of Tying and Bundling Reflect the Economic Theory?

Posted on December 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pranvera Këllezi, European Broadcasting Union asks Rhetoric or Reform: Does the Law of Tying and Bundling Reflect the Economic Theory? ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the recent developments in European competition law with regard to tying...

On Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on December 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt University) has a comment On Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. ABSTRACT: To determine whether a proposed merger is anticompetitive, one must compare the world without the merger?which is observed?to the world with...

Rambus, N-Data, and the FTC: Creating Efficient Incentives in Patent Holders and Optimizing Consumer Welfare in Standards-Setting Organizations

Posted on December 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Theresa R. Stadheim (Minnesota Law) has a piece on Rambus, N-Data, and the FTC: Creating Efficient Incentives in Patent Holders and Optimizing Consumer Welfare in Standards-Setting Organizations. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the Federal Trade Commission?s...

Most Downloaded Antitrust Law Professors on SSRN for 2009

Posted on December 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Most Downloaded Antitrust Law Professors of 2009 (at least 2 antitrust articles posted in 2009) Damien Geradin (Tilburg, Michigan, College of Europe) 6039 David Evans (UCL, Chicago) 5580 Greg Sidak (Tilburg) 4961 Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa)...

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Determinants of the Success of Remedy Offers: Evidence from European Community Mergers

Posted on December 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter L. Ormosi, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy provides some data on Determinants of the Success of Remedy Offers: Evidence from European Community Mergers. ABSTRACT: This article proposes an empirical method for finding the determinants...

The FTC and DOJ's Horizontal Guidelines Review Project: What Changes Might Be In Store for Merger Review?

Posted on December 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mary Coleman (Compass Lexecon) examines The FTC and DOJ's Horizontal Guidelines Review Project: What Changes Might Be In Store for Merger Review? ABSTRACT: As part of the FTC and DOJ's Horizontal Guidelines Review Project, the...

Behavioral Antitrust: A New Approach To the Rule of Reason after Leegin

Posted on December 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Avishalom Tor, University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and William J. Rinner, Yale University - Law School argue for Behavioral Antitrust: A New Approach To the Rule of Reason after Leegin. ABSTRACT: The Supreme...

Horizontal Merger Guidelines Revision: A Draftsman's Perspective

Posted on December 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Dennis (Dechert) has an interesting analysis on Horizontal Merger Guidelines Revision: A Draftsman's Perspective. ABSTRACT: As the principal draftsman of the 1992 Guidelines, I developed what might fairly be described as an unusual attachment...

Competition, IP and Contractual Issues in the Media Industry: Law and Practice

Posted on December 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol UCL is pleased to announce a course starting on 27 January 2010 on Competition, IP and Contractual Issues in the Media Industry: Law and Practice delivered by Andrea Appella (Director of Legal, Competition & Regulatory...

OFT Seeks Assistant Economist

Posted on December 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Assistant Economist Office of Fair Trading OFT802 Salary: £28,500 ? £33,500 + excellent benefits Start date: September 2010 (earlier date may be negotiated) We?re looking for enthusiastic individuals who are close to completing a PhD...

European State Aids Control

Posted on December 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol UCL is pleased to announce a new course starting in January: European State Aids Control 7 weeks from January 2010, £600 The course, which runs for 2 hours each week, covers the following areas: State...

3rd Annual Experts' Guide of Best Antitrust Publications: 2009 Edition

Posted on December 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Our yearly Experts' Guide to the best antitrust publications is back. Enjoy these works that you may have missed. The big winner this year is Einer Elhauge, Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single...

Inferring market power from retail deposit interest rates in the euro area

Posted on December 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Laura Vajanne (Bank of Finland Research) is Inferring market power from retail deposit interest rates in the euro area. ABSTRACT: This paper tests for the existence of market power in banking, using data on demand...

Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry

Posted on December 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steven L. Puller, Anirban Sengupta, and Steven N. Wiggins are Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates why passengers pay substantially different fares for travel on the same airline...

Efficiency of EU Merger Control in the 1990-2008 Period

Posted on December 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Goran Serdarevic (EEIP) and Petr Teply (EEIP) undertake work on Efficiency of EU Merger Control in the 1990-2008 Period. ABSTRACT: The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of key regulatory changes...

Price Controls and Consumer Surplus

Posted on December 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeremy Bulow (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University) and Paul Klemperer (Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) analyze Price Controls and Consumer Surplus. ABSTRACT: The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare...

A Nonparametric Analysis of the Cournot Model

Posted on December 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrés Carvajal (CRETA and Department of Economics, University of Warwick) and John Quah (Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford) provide A Nonparametric Analysis of the Cournot Model. ABSTRACT: An observer makes a number of observations...

Intra-Enterprise Activity, Joint Ventures and Sports Leagues: Identifying Unilateral Conduct Under the Antitrust Laws

Posted on December 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa- Law) explains Intra-Enterprise Activity, Joint Ventures and Sports Leagues: Identifying Unilateral Conduct Under the Antitrust Laws. ABSTRACT: In the American Needle case the Supreme Court will consider whether the NFL?s decision to...

Private label introduction: Does it benefit the supply chain?

Posted on December 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marc Sachon (IESE Business School) and Victor Martinez de Albeniz (IESE Business School) ask Private label introduction: Does it benefit the supply chain? ABSTRACT: Private labels, also called store brands or distributor brands, have changed...

Damien Geradin joins Michigan's Law Faculty as the William W. Cook Global Law Professor

Posted on December 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol European and comparative competition law expert Damien Geradin (Tilburg University, College of Europe) will join the University of Michigan Law Faculty starting in 2010. Damien is one of the stars of European antitrust, especially in...

The Pleading Problem in Antitrust Cases and Beyond

Posted on December 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) explains The Pleading Problem in Antitrust Cases and Beyond. ABSTRACT: In Twombly the Supreme Court held that an antitrust complaint failed because its allegations did not include enough ?factual matter? to...

Sequential Search with Incompletely Informed Consumers: Theory and Evidence from Retail Gasoline Markets

Posted on December 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maarten Janssen, Paul Pichler, and Simon Weidenholzer (all Department of Economics, Vienna) explain Sequential Search with Incompletely Informed Consumers: Theory and Evidence from Retail Gasoline Markets. ABSTRACT: A large variety of markets, such as retail...

Tropical Paradise of Fiji Looking for Competition Lawyer

Posted on December 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol COMPETITION LAWYER The Commerce Commission has a vacancy for the position of a Competition Lawyer. The Competition Lawyer reports to the Chairman through the Chief Executive Officer on Legal issues relating to Competition, Pricing and...

Economic Analysis and Evaluation of 'Fair Prices' - Can Antitrust and International Taxation Learn from Each Other?

Posted on December 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alessandro Turina, Bocconi University and Nicolo Zingales, Bocconi University write on the under-developed intersection between tax and antitrust in Economic Analysis and Evaluation of 'Fair Prices' - Can Antitrust and International Taxation Learn from Each...

EARLY NEOCLASSICAL VIEWS ON MONOPOLY: THE COURNOTIAN HERITAGE

Posted on December 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrés Alvarez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Escuela de Economía) explores EARLY NEOCLASSICAL VIEWS ON MONOPOLY: THE COURNOTIAN HERITAGE. ABSTRACT: This paper analyses how Cournot?s views on Monopoly have influenced the marginalists authors...

Contract Incompleteness, Globalization and Vertical Structure: an Empirical Analysis

Posted on December 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luigi Pascali (Boston College - Econ) explains Contract Incompleteness, Globalization and Vertical Structure: an Empirical Analysis. ABSTRACT: This paper studies the effects of international openness and contracting institutions on vertical integration...

The Determinants of State-Level Antitrust Enforcement

Posted on December 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert M. Feinberg (American U - Econ) and Kara M. Reynolds (American U - Econ) explain The Determinants of State-Level Antitrust Enforcement. ABSTRACT: While there has been a considerable literature exploring determinants of antitrust enforcement...

Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets

Posted on December 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michiel Bijlsma, Jan Boone, and Gijsbert Zwart analyze Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets. ABSTRACT: We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to...

China?s Antimonopoly Law?One Year Down: Abuse of Dominance Under the AML?A Chaotic Scene

Posted on December 20, 2009
Posted by Wentong Zheng In this blog series on China?s Antimonopoly Law (?AML?), I have so far focused on issues related to merger review. An equally important?if not more important?component of the AML deals with abuse of dominant market position....

Arbitration and EU Competition Law in a Multi-Jurisdictional Setting

Posted on December 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Assimakis Komninos (Hellenic Competition Commission) explains Arbitration and EU Competition Law in a Multi-Jurisdictional Setting. ABSTRACT: Any discussion of application of EU competition rules by courts cannot ignore arbitration...

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