Corporate & Securities Law

Horizontal Mergers, Structural Remedies, and Consumer Welfare in a Cournot Oligopoly with Assets

Posted on February 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thibaud Verg - Autorité de la Concurrence and CREST-LEI discusses Horizontal Mergers, Structural Remedies, and Consumer Welfare in a Cournot Oligopoly with Assets. ABSTRACT: Competition authorities sometimes require that firms divest some of their assets...

Transplanting Antitrust in China: Economic Transition, Market Structure, and State Control

Posted on February 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wentong Zheng (Buffalo - Law) has posted Transplanting Antitrust in China: Economic Transition, Market Structure, and State Control. ABSTRACT: This Article examines the compatibility of Western antitrust models as incorporated in China?s first comprehensive antitrust...

The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Crane (Michigan Law) has come out with The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press 2011). I read a number of chapters in manuscript form. This is a wonderful and insightful book and...

Farsighted Coalitional Stability of a Price Leadership Cartel

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yoshio Kamijo (Waseda University) and Shigeo Muto (Tokyo Institute of Technology) describe Farsighted Coalitional Stability of a Price Leadership Cartel. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the farsighted behaviour of firms that form a dominant price leadership...

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Regulatory Barriers to Entry in Industrial Sectors

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Panayotis Kotsios, University of Macedonia has written on Regulatory Barriers to Entry in Industrial Sectors. ABSTRACT: The entry of new competitors operates as a balancing force against high levels of industrial concentration and the abuse...

Antitrust and Patent Law Analysis of Pharmaceutical Reverse Payment Settlements

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa - College of Law provides Antitrust and Patent Law Analysis of Pharmaceutical Reverse Payment Settlements. ABSTRACT: Patent settlements in which the patentee pays the alleged infringer to stay out...

Pricing Dynamics in the Australian Airline Market

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicolas De Roos - University of Sydney, Gordon Mills - University of Sydney, and Stephen Whelan - University of Sydney address Pricing Dynamics in the Australian Airline Market. ABSTRACT: We examine price dispersion in a...

Entry, Exit, and the Endogenous Market Structure in Technologically Turbulent Industries

Posted on February 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Myong-Hun Chang, Cleveland State University - Economics has posted Entry, Exit, and the Endogenous Market Structure in Technologically Turbulent Industries. ABSTRACT: Empirical studies have found high correlation between entry and exit across industries, indicating that...

Best Prices

Posted on February 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K. Kashyap (both U. Chicago Booth School of Business) have an interesting new paper on Best Prices. ABSTRACT: We explore the role of strategic price-discrimination by retailers for price determination...

Intellectual Property Rights and Their Interface with Competition Policy: In Balance or in Conflict?

Posted on February 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Singh Sumanjeet, University of Delhi asks Intellectual Property Rights and Their Interface with Competition Policy: In Balance or in Conflict? ABSTRACT: Intellectual property rights create monopolies, while competition law battles monopolies...

Does Antitrust Enforcement in High Tech Markets Benefit Consumers? Stock Price Evidence from FTC v. Intel

Posted on February 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright (George Mason Law) has posted Does Antitrust Enforcement in High Tech Markets Benefit Consumers? Stock Price Evidence from FTC v. Intel. ABSTRACT: Antitrust enforcement efforts in the United States and abroad have been...

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Seminar Series Spring 2011

Posted on February 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Schedule of Speakers Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Series Spring 2011 Date Speaker/Affliliation/Paper Mar 3 Henry Schneider (Cornell) Mar 10 Joel Waldfogel (Minnesota) Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music...

Regulating Cartels in Europe (2nd Edition)

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Harding (Department of Law and Criminology at the University of Wales) and Julian Joshua (Howrey) have published Regulating Cartels in Europe (2nd Edition) with Oxford University Press. BOOK ABSTRACT: One of the most contentious...

Incentives to Innovate in Oligopolies

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Belleflamme, CORE and IAG, UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain), CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and Cecilia Vergari, University of Bologna - Department of Economics explore Incentives to Innovate...

The Price Effect of Eliminating Potential Competition: Evidence from an Airline Merger

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John E. Kwoka, Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Evgenia Shumilkina, Northeastern University discuss The Price Effect of Eliminating Potential Competition: Evidence from an Airline Merger. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the gain in pricing...

Licensing a Vertical Product Innovation

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Changying Li, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics and Junmei Wang explore Licensing a Vertical Product Innovation. ABSTRACT: This paper studies the case where an outside patent holder licenses its vertical product...

How is the Mobile Internet Different? Search Costs and Local Activities

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anindya Ghose, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, and Sang Pil Han, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N....

DOJ Economic Analysis Group (EAG) Spring 2011 Seminar Series

Posted on February 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Economics Seminars The Economic Analysis Group (EAG) presents a seminar series to advance recent economic analyses in the fields of industrial organization, antitrust, and applied microeconomics. Schedules are organized in the spring and fall...

Joint-Venture Analysis after American Needle

Posted on February 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan James Devlin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Michael S. Jacobs, DePaul University - College of Law offer their thoughts on Joint-Venture Analysis after American Needle. ABSTRACT: The basic operational...

Cartelising Groups in Dynamic Hyperbolic Oligopoly with Antitrust Threshold

Posted on February 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Akio Matsumoto, Chuo University, Ugo Merlone, University of Turin - Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, and Ferenc Szidarovszky, University of Arizona - Department of Systems & Industrial Engineering (SIE), explore Cartelising Groups in Dynamic...

Efficiency Gains and Structural Remedies in Merger Control

Posted on February 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Helder Vasconcelos, University of Bocconi - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) and Department of Economics, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) analyzes Efficiency Gains and Structural Remedies in Merger Control...

The Effect of Competition on Process and Outcome Quality within Hospital Care in the Netherlands

Posted on February 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michiel J. Bijlsma, CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, Pierre Koning, CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, and Victoria Shestalova, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis have written on The Effect of Competition...

Australian Cartel Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context

Posted on February 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Beaton-Wells, University of Melbourne and Brent Fisse University of Sydney have produced an excellent new book Australian Cartel Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context. BOOK ABSTRACT: In Australian Cartel Regulation, leading...

US Cartel Policy Too Lax

Posted on February 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As I argue in a forthocming article in the Antitrust Law Journal (not yet up on SSRN but I'll let you know once it is), the anti-cartel system needs a bit of help to effectively...

European Competition Journal : Volume 6 . Number 3 . December 2010

Posted on February 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol EUROPEAN COMPETITION JOURNAL Volume 6 . Number 3 . December 2010 We are very pleased to let you know that the 3rd issue of the 2010 volume of European Competition Journal has just been published....

The Great Doctrinal Debate: Under What Circumstances is Section 5 Superior to Section 2?

Posted on February 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Rosch (FTC) asks The Great Doctrinal Debate: Under What Circumstances is Section 5 Superior to Section 2?

Concentration and self-censorship in commercial media

Posted on February 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fabrizio Germano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) and Martin Meier (Institut fur Hohere Studien, Vienna) have an interesting paper on Concentration and self-censorship in commercial media. ABSTRACT: Within a simple model of non-localized, Hotelling-type...

Understanding UPP

Posted on February 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Roy J. Epstein, BC - Econ and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, University of California at Berkeley - School of Law, NYU Law School have written on Understanding UPP. ABSTRACT: Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro have proposed...

Seeking out and building monopolies, Rothschild strategies in non ferrous metals international markets (1830-1940)

Posted on February 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Miguel A. López-Morell (Universidad de Murcia) and Jos M. O'Kean (Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide & IE Business School) have undertaken some historical work in their piece Seeking out and building monopolies, Rothschild...

Global Competition Law Conference: Competition Law and the State

Posted on February 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Global Competition Law Conference: Competition Law and the State 18 & 19 March 2011, Hong Kong Register here Conference Schedule Friday 18 March 2011 08:30 Registration 09.00 Welcome and Introduction Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE...

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