Corporate & Securities Law

Regulating Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Investigation

Posted on December 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Santiago Carbo Valverde, Universidad de Granada, Sujit Chakravorti, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, and Francisco Rodriguez Fernandez, Universidad de Granada undertake Regulating Two-Sided Markets: An Empirical Investigation...

Horizontal Merger Guidelines Review Project's First Workshop

Posted on December 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Varney's talk on Horizontal Merger Guidelines Review Project's First Workshop is up.

Competition in two-sided markets with common network externalities

Posted on December 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Bardey (University of Rosario, Bogota) Helmuth Cremer (Tolouse - Econ (GREMAQ-CNRS)) and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur (Tolouse - Econ (GREMAQ-CNRS)) address Competition in two-sided markets with common network externalities. ABSTRACT: We study competition in two sided...

Asymmetric price effects of competition

Posted on December 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Saul Lach (The Hebrew University) Jose L. Moraga (University of Groningen) analyze Asymmetric price effects of competition. ABSTRACT: This paper examines how the distribution of prices changes with the number of competitors in the market...

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On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products

Posted on December 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Guanming Shi (Wisconsin - Agricultural and Applied Economics) Jean-Paul Chavas (Wisconsin - Agricultural and Applied Economics) have thoughts On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the pricing and vertical organization...

European Competition Law Annual 2008: Antitrust Settlements under EC Competition Law

Posted on December 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Out in print by Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Mel Marquis is European Competition Law Annual 2008Antitrust Settlements under EC Competition Law. BOOK ABSTRACT: This is the thirteenth in a series on EU Competition Law and Policy...

Bilateral oligopoly and quantity competition

Posted on December 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alex Dickson (Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde) and Roger Hartley (Department of Economics, University of Manchester) explain Bilateral oligopoly and quantity competition. ABSTRACT: Bilateral oligopoly is a strategic market game with two commodities, allowing...

Competition Policy in Health Care in an Era of Reform

Posted on December 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol December 10, 2009 Health Law Roundtable Event Competition Policy in Health Care in an Era of Reform Time: 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. Location: University Place Conference Center, room 216 Contact: Shari Baldwin at ssbaldwi@iupui.edu and...

Foreclosing competition through access charges and price discrimination

Posted on December 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Angel L. Lopez (IESE Business School) and Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) have thoughts on Foreclosing competition through access charges and price discrimination. ABSTRACT: This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent...

Transitoriness of Market Power and Antitrust Activity

Posted on December 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mika Kato (Howard University - Econ) describes Transitoriness of Market Power and Antitrust Activity. ABSTRACT: The economic rationale for how much market power is tolerable has so far been based mainly on static considerations; ideally,...

The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry, 2000?2008

Posted on December 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Viola Chen (FTC) explains The Evolution of the Baby Food Industry, 2000?2008. ABSTRACT: In 2000, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) prevented the merger of the second and third largest baby food manufacturers in the United...

5th Annual In-House Counsel Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust: Understanding Antitrust Priorities Under a New Enforcement Regime

Posted on December 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 5th Annual In-House Counsel Forum on Pharmaceutical Antitrust Understanding Antitrust Priorities Under a New Enforcement Regime Wednesday, February 17 to Thursday, February 18, 2010 For registration and other information click here...

Monopsony Abuse or Efficient Purchasing? Quality Measurement in the Tobacco Leaf Market

Posted on December 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Hanssen (Colby - Econ) asks Monopsony Abuse or Efficient Purchasing? Quality Measurement in the Tobacco Leaf Market. ABSTRACT: In the recent case of Deloach v. Philip Morris, plaintiff tobacco growers accused the major cigarette...

Anticompetitive versus Competitive Explanations of Unilateral Practices: The Identification Problem

Posted on December 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michele Polo (Bocconi - Econ) analyzes Anticompetitive versus Competitive Explanations of Unilateral Practices: The Identification Problem. ABSTRACT: I consider the application of Article 82 using an economic approach. I argue that proving a given practice...

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

Posted on December 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jaap W.B. Bos (Utrecht - Economics), Ivy Chan (Utrecht - Economics), James W. Kolari (Texas A&M - Mays Business School), and Jiang Yuuan (Utrecht - Economics) explain A Fallacy of Division: The Failure of Market...

The Dragon in the Room: China?s Anti-Monopoly Law and International Merger Review

Posted on December 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chris Hamp-Lyons (Vanderbilt Law) has a paper on The Dragon in the Room: China?s Anti-Monopoly Law and International Merger Review. ABSTRACT: In today's world, where companies and their transactions often transcend national borders, multi-jurisdictional antitrust...

A Decision-Theoretic Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

Posted on November 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thom Lambert of the University of Missouri School of Law discusses A Decision-Theoretic Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance. ABSTRACT: In its 2007 Leegin decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 96 year-old...

Seventeen Years Later: Thoughts on Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on November 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Darren S. Tucker, Federal Trade Commission addresses Seventeen Years Later: Thoughts on Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. ABSTRACT: In September 2009, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice announced plans to explore the...

Dynamic Competition with Consumer Inertia

Posted on October 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Erik Pot, János Flesch, Ronald Peeters, and Dries Vermeulen (all Maastricht University - Econ) describe Dynamic Competition with Consumer Inertia. ABSTRACT: We study a framework where two duopolists compete repeatedly in prices and where cho-sen...

Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Recent Developments in the Pharmaceuticals Sector

Posted on October 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aidan Synnott (Paul, Weiss) & William Michael (Paul, Weiss) express pessimism in government enforcement in their article Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Recent Developments in the Pharmaceuticals Sector. ABSTRACT: During his campaign for the Presidency, then-Senator...

Article 81 EC and Public Policy

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Townley (King's College, London - Law) has a new book out in print Article 81 EC and Public Policy. This is an important contribution to Article 81 analysis. BOOK ABSTRACT: This book discusses the...

Upstream Horizontal Mergers and Efficiency Gains

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chrysovalantou Milliou, Athens University of Economics and Business and Apostolis Pavlou address Upstream Horizontal Mergers and Efficiency Gains. ABSTRACT: We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains...

Reconciling the Opposing Views of Critical Elasticity

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Baumann (Economists Incorporated) & Paul Godek (Compass Lexecon) make an attempt at Reconciling the Opposing Views of Critical Elasticity. ABSTRACT: Market definition is the core of antitrust analysis, and the concepts of ?critical elasticity?...

Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma - Theory vs. Experimental Evidence

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christoph Engel, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods describes Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma - Theory vs. Experimental Evidence. ABSTRACT: Cartels are inherently instable. Each cartelist is best off if it breaks...

JTC Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Qualcomm

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Available in English here.

Horizontal Anticompetitive Agreements

Posted on September 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Javier Tapia, UCL Law writes on Horizontal Anticompetitive Agreements (Carácter Anticompetitivo de los Acuerdos Restrictivos de la Competencia). ABSTRACT: This work (written in Spanish) summarises the most important aspects of the international literature on cartels...

Identifying and Remedying Exclusionary Conduct: Microsoft, the DOJ Section 2 Report, and the New Administration

Posted on September 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My colleague Bill Page has posted Identifying and Remedying Exclusionary Conduct: Microsoft, the DOJ Section 2 Report, and the New Administration. ABSTRACT: The Department of Justice?s Section 2 Report considered in great detail how courts...

Antitrust Federalism: Enhancing the Federal-State Relationship

Posted on September 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust Federalism: Enhancing the Federal-State Relationship Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ?Antitrust Federalism: Enhancing the Federal-State Relationship,? a conference that will outline new measures the government is taking to strengthen its...

Administrative Monopoly and the Anti-Monopoly Law: An Examination Of the Debate in China

Posted on September 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gordon Y.M. Chan, Department of Law & Business, Hong Kong Shue Yan University analyzes Administrative Monopoly and the Anti-Monopoly Law: An Examination Of the Debate in China. ABSTRACT: After more than a decade of preparation,...

The Energy Antitrust Handbook, Second edition

Posted on September 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA has come out with the second edition of the Energy Antitrust Handbook. This Second edition of the Energy Antitrust Handbook presents a guide to an industry of increasing importance to the U.S. economy....

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