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The Stock Market's Valuation of Research and Development and Market Concentration in Horizontal Mergers

Posted on December 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ralph M. Sonenshine (American -Econ) provides some interesting work on the interplay between corporate finance and competition is his paper The Stock Market's Valuation of Research and Development and Market Concentration in Horizontal Mergers...

Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry

Posted on December 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steven L. Puller (Texas A&M University-Econ), Anirban Sengupta (Analysis Group), and Steven N. Wiggins (Texas A&M University-Econ) are Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates why passengers pay substantially...

The Reform of EC Competition Law: New Challenges

Posted on December 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Lianos (UCL Law) and Ioannis Kokkoris (OFT and City University Law) bring us the edited volume The Reform of EC Competition Law: New Challenges. ABSTRACT: Responding to external and internal pressure for change the...

Call for Papers: International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich June 2010 Conference

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation & the Professorship for Intellectual Property, ETH Zurich CALL FOR PARTICIPATION From June 20 to June 22, 2010, the International Max Planck Research School for Competition...

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Are All Mergers Equally Delay-Averse? An Empirical Analysis of Procedural Delay in European Commission Merger Cases (1999-2008)

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter L. Ormosi, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy has a nice empirical piece on Are All Mergers Equally Delay-Averse? An Empirical Analysis of Procedural Delay in European Commission Merger Cases (1999-2008). ABSTRACT: This article looks...

Real Knowledge is to Know the Extent of One's Own Ignorance: On the Consumer Harm Approach in Innovation-Related Competition Cases

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josef Drexl, Max Planck Institute has posted Real Knowledge is to Know the Extent of One's Own Ignorance: On the Consumer Harm Approach in Innovation-Related Competition Cases. ABSTRACT: Modern economics advocates an assessment of competition...

Competition, Reputation and Compliance

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paolo Vanin (Department of Economics, Universita di Bologna) has written on Competition, Reputation and Compliance. ABSTRACT: This paper displays a linear demand oligopoly model, in which firms endogenously decide whether to enter the market and...

New Blog by the Catholic University of Chile Competition Center

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Their new blog will prove to be a useful resource. I highly recommend it.

Anti-Market Antitrust: The Latin American Paradox, Some Comments on an Institutional Assessment of Antitrust Policy, The Latin American Experience

Posted on December 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Francisco Marcos (Instituto de Empresa Business School - Law) has some very strong words in his book review Anti-Market Antitrust: The Latin American Paradox, Some Comments on an Institutional Assessment of Antitrust Policy, The Latin...

Competition Law, Innovation And Antitrust: An Analysis of Tying and Technological Integration

Posted on December 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hedvig Schmidt (University of Southampton Law) has a book out on Competition Law, Innovation And Antitrust: An Analysis of Tying and Technological Integration. BOOK ABSTRACT: Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Tying from an Economic Perspective 3...

Breaking News II: Intel Sued by FTC

Posted on December 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol What a big day! First Microsoft settles in Europe and now the FTC sues Intel. One thing that I hope that US antitrust enforcers have learned from Microsoft is that you should not bring such...

Breaking News I: The End is Here - EU Settles With Microsoft

Posted on December 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The expected Microsoft settlement is now official. It will take years for academics to figure out the true costs of the Microsoft litigation. I recommend the many articles and book by my colleague Bill Page...

Economics And The Enforcement Of European Competition Law

Posted on December 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Decker, Regulatory Policy Institute and University of Oxford has written on Economics And The Enforcement Of European Competition Law. BOOK ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen a trend toward an ?economics-based? approach to the enforcement...

Fines Against Parent Companies in EU Antitrust Law - Setting Incentives for "Best Practice Compliance"

Posted on December 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Karl Hofstetter, University of Zurich - School of Law and Melanie Ludescher, Legal Counsel - Schindler Group focus their research on Fines Against Parent Companies in EU Antitrust Law - Setting Incentives for "Best Practice....

Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance

Posted on December 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rabah Amir (Department of Economics, University of Arizona) and Natalia Lazzati (Department of Economics, University of Arizona) have a paper on Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance. ABSTRACT: This paper provides a thorough analysis...

Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge

Posted on December 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Emeric Henry (Sciences Po - Econ), Carlos Ponce (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Econ) explain Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge. ABSTRACT: We study the problem of an inventor who brings...

Research Topics in Unilateral Effects Analysis

Posted on December 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonathan B. Baker, American University - Washington College of Law and David Reitman, Charles River Associates, Inc. have drafted a great resource in Research Topics in Unilateral Effects Analysis. ABSTRACT: This chapter has been prepared...

9th Global Forum on Competition, 18-19 February 2010, Paris

Posted on December 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 9th Global Forum on Competition 18-19 February 2010, Paris The 9th OECD Global Forum on Competition will focus on Competition, State aids and Subsidies, as well as on Collusion and Corruption in Public Procurement. Participants...

Static and Dynamic Merger Effects: Evidence from the Divestiture of Texaco's Canadian Assets

Posted on December 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo - Department of Economics and Anindya Sen, University of Waterloo - Department of Economics examine Static and Dynamic Merger Effects: Evidence from the Divestiture of Texaco's Canadian Assets...

It's Coming - 3rd Annual Best Antitrust and Competition Policy Article of the Year

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The annual tradition is back. We will announce winners at 11:00am EST on December 26, 2009. For previous winners see the 2008 and 2007 lists.

A Simple Theory of Predation

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chiara Fumagalli (Istituto di Economia Politica - Econ) and Massimo Motta (EUI - Econ) propose A Simple Theory of Predation. This paper is worth a read. ABSTRACT: We propose a simple theory of predatory pricing,...

Antitrust in a Globalized Economy: The Unique Enforcement Challenges Faced by Small and by Developing Jurisdictions

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Gal (Haifa, Law) has posted the interesting Antitrust in a Globalized Economy: The Unique Enforcement Challenges Faced by Small and by Developing Jurisdictions. ABSTRACT: The increase in global trade has intensified the challenges involved...

Switching Costs in Network Industries

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jiawei Chen (Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine) explains Switching Costs in Network Industries. ABSTRACT: In network industries, switching costs have two opposite effects on the tendency towards market tipping...

China?s Antimonopoly Law?One Year Down: Part 3. The AML As a Protectionist Tool?

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by Wentong Zheng In my last two posts on this space, I provided a summary of the new developments of China?s Antimonopoly Law (?AML?) (see here) and an analysis of China?s new merger review regime under the AML (see...

Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment

Posted on December 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maria Bigoni, University of Padua - Department of Economics, Sven-Olof Fridolfsson, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Chloe Le Coq, Stockholm School of Economics, and Giancarlo Spagnolo, University of Tor Vergata, Stockholm School of Economics discuss...

Getting Linkedin to Antitrust and Competition Issues

Posted on December 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ever wonder who the other readers of the blog are and your potential opportunities to network with them? I have created a Linkedin site for readers of the blog to network and post announcements on...

Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion

Posted on December 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Cooper, Florida State University - Econ and Kai-Uwe K�hn, University of Michigan - Econ address Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion. ABSTRACT: We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most...

Brand Protection and Competition

Posted on December 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Office of Fair Trading and UCL?s Institute of Brand and Innovation Law would like to invite you to an early evening event entitled BRAND PROTECTION AND COMPETITION Date: 27 January 2010 Time: 4.30pm (registration),...

A Fallacy of Division: The Failure of Market Concentration as a Measure of Competition in U.S. Banking

Posted on December 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jaap W.B. Bos (Utrecht - Economics), Ivy Chan (Utrecht - Economics), Jiang Yuan (Utrecht - Economics), and James W. Kolari (Texas A&M - Mays School of Business) have some interesting thoughts on A Fallacy of...

Happy Chanukah From the Youngest Reader of the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog

Posted on December 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anthony Chavez (Exxon Mobil) shares a picture of daughter Samantha Rachel Chavez wishing everyone a Happy Chanukah. With a planned DOJ Antitrust workshop in Madison, WI on competition in dairy, the writing on her shirt...

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