Corporate & Securities Law

Empirical analysis of buyer power

Posted on September 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Walter Beckert (Birkbeck College, University of London - Econ) provides an Empirical analysis of buyer power. ABSTRACT: This paper provides a comprehensive econometric framework for the empirical analysis of buyer power. It encompasses the two...

Mobile Call Termination

Posted on September 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Armstrong, University College London - Department of Economics and Julian Wright, National University of Singapore - Department of Economics analyze Mobile Call Termination. ABSTRACT: We analyse charges levied by mobile telephone networks to deliver...

Mickey Mouse to Acquire Iron Man

Posted on September 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today's big news is that Disney has a deal to acquire Marvel. Expect more deals as others in the industry react. This should be fun for the enforcers as these are politically sensitive deals that...

An Administrable and Efficient Legal Standard for Refusals to Deal and Price Squeezes by an Unregulated, Vertically Integrated Monopolist

Posted on September 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steve Salop (Georgetown Law) has a very interesting piece, An Administrable and Efficient Legal Standard for Refusals to Deal and Price Squeezes by an Unregulated, Vertically Integrated Monopolist. ABSTRACT: This paper formulates a rigorous rule...

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Limiting Anti-Competitive Government Interventions that Benefit Special Interests

Posted on August 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol D. Daniel Sokol of the University of Florida Levin College of Law (i.e., your blog editor) has a new working paper, Limiting Anti-Competitive Government Interventions that Benefit Special Interests. It is my last foray for...

Reformulating Antitrust Rules to Safeguard Societal Wealth

Posted on August 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan Devlin, and Bruno L. Peixoto, Lanna Peixoto Advogados, The Brazilian Institute for Economic Analysis of Law have a paper on Reformulating Antitrust Rules to Safeguard Societal Wealth. ABSTRACT:Myopic application of the antitrust laws has...

Antitrust Divergence and the Limits of Economics

Posted on August 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan Devlin and Michael S. Jacobs, DePaul University - College of Law have a forthcoming paper on Antitrust Divergence and the Limits of Economics. ABSTRACT: Few would question the primacy of economic analysis in the...

Divisionalization and Horizontal Mergers in a Vertical Relationship

Posted on August 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tomomichi Mizuno, Competition Policy Research Center - Japan Fair Trade Commission has a paper on Divisionalization and Horizontal Mergers in a Vertical Relationship. ABSTRACT: In this paper we evaluate the effects of horizontal mergers in...

Role of Economics in Competition Law

Posted on August 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Jevons Institute is again running its popular masters level course on Role of Economics in Competition Law, starting in October 2009. This objective of this 13 week course (between October 2009 - March...

Against Positive Harmonization: The European Commission Proposal to Strengthen the Private Enforcement of Competition Law

Posted on August 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jesus Alfaro, AUTONOMA UNIVERSITY OF MADRID writes Against Positive Harmonization: The European Commission Proposal to Strengthen the Private Enforcement of Competition Law. ABSTRACT: This paper questions the advisability of a positive harmonization of Competition Law...

Swedish Competition - My Heroes!!!

Posted on August 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As some of you know, I have a forthcoming article in the BYU Law Review titled "Competition Policy and Comparative Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises." I am very interested in government's role in anti-competitive...

The Map of Commerce: Internet Search, Competition, and the Circular Flow of. Information

Posted on August 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Spulber of Northwestern University Kellog School of Business has posted The Map of Commerce: Internet Search, Competition, and the Circular Flow of. Information. ABSTRACT: Search firms provide matchmaking services between consumers and suppliers that...

Barriers to Entry of a Vertically Integrated Health Insurer: An Analysis of Welfare and Entry Costs

Posted on August 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Katherine Ho, Columbia University - Department of Economics, explains Barriers to Entry of a Vertically Integrated Health Insurer: An Analysis of Welfare and Entry Costs. ABSTRACT: I investigate the reasons why market expansion attempts by...

The European Union, the United States, and Microsoft: A Comparative Review of Antitrust Doctrine

Posted on August 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Daniel J. Gifford (University of Minnesota - Law School) has written on The European Union, the United States, and Microsoft: A Comparative Review of Antitrust Doctrine. ABSTRACT: When a seller bundles together two products that...

Vertical Networks, Integration, and Connectivity

Posted on August 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pinar Do?an explains Vertical Networks, Integration, and Connectivity. ABSTRACT: This paper studies competition in a network industry with a stylized two layered network structure, and examines: (i) price and connectivity incentives of the upstream networks,...

Empirical Analysis of Competition between Wal-Mart and Other Retail Channels

Posted on August 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lesley Chiou, Occidental College - Department of Economics provides an Empirical Analysis of Competition between Wal-Mart and Other Retail Channels. ABSTRACT: This paper quantifies the degree of competition between Wal-Mart and different retail channels by...

Kartelpuffer

Posted on August 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Brent Fisse (Melbourne Law) has a really funny piece for download called Kartelpuffer. ABSTRACT: An unusual dish ? the Kartelpuffer - was presented and swallowed at the Parliamentary Sittings in Canberra in June 2009. The...

Horizontal Anticompetitive Agreements

Posted on August 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Javier Tapia, University College London - Faculty of Laws has a chapter on Horizontal Anticompetitive Agreements (Carácter Anticompetitivo de los Acuerdos Restrictivos de la Competencia). ABSTRACT: This work (written in Spanish) summarises the most important...

The Commission?s Review of the Rules applicable to Vertical Agreements

Posted on August 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Commission?s Review of the Rules applicable to Vertical Agreements Claude Rakovsky, Head of Unit, DG COMP Stephen Kinsella, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP 18 September 2009 ? Hilton Hotel, 38 Boulevard de Waterloo, Brussels Lunch...

An Evidence-Based Approach to Exclusive Dealing and Loyalty Discounts

Posted on August 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright of George Mason Law School advocates An Evidence-Based Approach to Exclusive Dealing and Loyalty Discounts. ABSTRACT: At the recent Section 2 hearings focused on the antitrust analysis of exclusive dealing contracts, a sensible...

France Télécom/Wanadoo Judgment: 'To Recoup or Not to Recoup? That 'Was' the Question for a Predatory Price Finding under Article 82 EC'

Posted on August 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris - Law Department and Marco Ramondino, discuss France Télécom/Wanadoo Judgment: 'To Recoup or Not to Recoup? That 'Was' the Question for a Predatory Price Finding under Article 82 EC'. ABSTRACT: The...

Criminal Cartels: Individual Liability and Sentencing

Posted on August 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Beaton-Wells and Brent Fisse (both University of Melbourne Law School) have posted Criminal Cartels: Individual Liability and Sentencing. ABSTRACT: The liability rules and sentencing system that will apply to individual offenders under Australia's new...

Competition Rules in the TRIPS Agreement: The CFI's Ruling in Microsoft v. Commission and Implications for Developing Countries

Posted on August 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tu T. Nguyen, Faculty of Law, Lund University addresses Competition Rules in the TRIPS Agreement: The CFI's Ruling in Microsoft v. Commission and Implications for Developing Countries. ABSTRACT: The ruling of the European Court of...

When Do Large Buyers Pay Less? Experimental Evidence

Posted on August 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Brad Ruffle (Ben Gurion - Econ) asks and answers When Do Large Buyers Pay Less? Experimental Evidence. ABSTRACT: The rise in mega-retailers has contributed to a growing literature on buyer power and large-buyer discounts. According...

Competition Politics: A Political Economy of Antitrust Regulation in Developing Countries

Posted on August 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen J. Weymouth, University of California, San Diego (Political Science) has a new piece on Competition Politics: A Political Economy of Antitrust Regulation in Developing Countries. ABSTRACT: Many developing countries have established competition (antitrust) agencies...

Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Alchemy in the Age of Empiricism?

Posted on August 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Greaney, Saint Louis University School of Law, explores Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Alchemy in the Age of Empiricism? ABSTRACT: One is hard-pressed to find in law an undertaking more fraught with uncertainty than the...

Coverage of Retail Stores and Discrete Choice Models of Demand: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects

Posted on August 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Franco Mariuzzo (The Geary Institute University College Dublin) Patrick Paul Walsh (SPIRe and The Geary Institute University College Dublin) and Ciara Whelan (Univesity College Dublin) explain Coverage of Retail Stores and Discrete Choice Models of...

The Abuse of Dominant Position Under Romanian Antitrust Law in Light of European Antitrrust Law

Posted on August 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anca Daniela Chiri?? (University of Saarland, Europa-Institut) explains The Abuse of Dominant Position Under Romanian Antitrust Law in Light of European Antitrrust Law.

Bundling and Competition for Slots: Sequential Pricing

Posted on August 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Domenico Menicucci (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) explain Bundling and Competition for Slots: Sequential Pricing. ABSTRACT: In this paper we study, as in Jeon-Menicucci...

A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments

Posted on August 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto - Econ) and Chun-Yu Ho (Georgia Institute of Technology - Econ) analyze A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments. ABSTRACT: This paper studies the...

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