Corporate & Securities Law

The Economics of Antitrust Class Certification

Posted on July 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul A. Johnson, Bates White, LLC explains The Economics of Antitrust Class Certification. ABSTRACT: With recent changes in case law requiring district courts to make deeper inquiries at the class certification stage, a systematic treatment...

Competition in the Postal Sector

Posted on July 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol One of my pet issues is competition in the postal sector. I have a forthcoming article in the BYU Law Review that looks at comparative corporate governance and competition policy of state owned enterprises. I...

Designing Competition in Health Care Markets

Posted on July 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dag Morten Dalen (BI Norwegian School of Management), Espen R Moen (BI Norwegian School of Management), and Christian Riis (BI Norwegian School of Management) go through the process of Designing Competition in Health Care Markets...

A Fundamental Power Price Model with Oligopolistic Competition Representation

Posted on July 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Miguel Vazquez, Universidad Pontificia Comillas and Julian Barquan, Pontifical University Comillas of Madrid describe A Fundamental Power Price Model with Oligopolistic Competition Representation. ABSTRACT: Most popular approaches for modeling electricity prices rely at present on...

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The Overcharge as a Measure for Antitrust Damages

Posted on July 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Martijn A. Han, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, and Jan Tuinstra, University of Amsterdam - Department of...

Buyer Groups and Buyer Power: The Effect on Outsiders

Posted on July 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen P. King, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University addresses Buyer Groups and Buyer Power: The Effect on Outsiders. ABSTRACT: A buyer group is a subset of downstream firms that pool their demand for...

Review of the competition rules applicable to vertical agreements

Posted on July 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The European Commission has asked for comments on vertical restraints. From the press release: The current Block Exemption Regulation on vertical restraints expires in May 2010. When the currently applicable Regulation and its associated Guidelines...

Aims of Antitrust, Prohibition of Restrictive Agreements and Exemptions

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hina Sarfaraz, University Institute of European Studies, discusses Aims of Antitrust, Prohibition of Restrictive Agreements and Exemptions. ABSTRACT: Aims of antitrust law, its sources and main purpose in the European Union are essential to understand...

The N-Effect: More Competitors, Less Competition

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen M. Garcia (University of Michigan - Ross School of Business) and Avishalom Tor (University of Haifa - Faculty of Law) explore The N-Effect: More Competitors, Less Competition. The paper makes a provocative claim, relying...

Antitrust Gets Worse for Qualcomm in Asia

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Things looked bad for Qualcomm last week with the KFTC fined Qualcomm US$208 million for Korean antitrust violations. This week things got worse for the San Diego based company as the Japanese JFTC has ordered...

Hospital Competition, Technical Efficiency, and Quality

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol C. L. Chua; Alfons Palangkaraya; Jongsay Yong (all Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne) address Hospital Competition, Technical Efficiency, and Quality. ABSTRACT: This paper studies the link between competition and...

New Revisions to the Chilean Competition Law

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol One hot topic in Chile while I was teaching are the new revisions to the Chilean Competition law. The most important new feature has been the introduction of leniency for cartels.

State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (Fourth)

Posted on July 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (Fourth) The Fourth Edition of this three-volume treatise concisely sets forth the substantive civil and criminal antitrust case law, procedure, practice, and statutes for each of the 50 states, the...

Bill Gates Quits Facebook

Posted on July 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A news article reports that Bill Gates quit Facebook because he had too many friends. Alas, none worked for the European Commission.

Chinese Merger Statistics Now Available

Posted on July 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol MOFCOM posted a brief note regarding merger review statistics. From implementation to the end of June 2009 MOFCOM had received 58 pre-merger notifications. Of these work on 48 has been completed with 43 of them...

The Handbook of Competition Economics 2009 Edition is Out

Posted on July 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Review has published The Handbook of Competition Economics 2009 Edition. Introduction Foreword Introduction Amelia Fletcher - Office of Fair Trading Overviews Abuse of Dominance Tom Carney, Sinead O'Loghlin - Dillon Eustace Solicitors...

Is Antitrust Enforcement Creating Rifts in the Obama Administration?

Posted on July 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The New York Times has a story that reports that enforcement by antitrust enforcers has met with resistance by others in the administration.

The State of Single-Firm Conduct Policy

Posted on July 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The US Chamber has published The State of Single-Firm Conduct Policy. ABSTRACT: On May 11th, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney withdrew the Section 2 Report (?Report?) that the previous Administration had issued September 8, 2008...

Best Looking Antitrust Agency Head

Posted on July 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have just returned from Chile earlier today. One issue that came up quite a bit is how many people in the antitrust community are proud of the Fiscalia Nacional Económica not merely for its...

Antitrust and the Google Books Settlement: The Problem of Simultaneity

Posted on July 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Former 2009 Swope Prize winner Eric Fraser has posted Antitrust and the Google Books Settlement: The Problem of Simultaneity. ABSTRACT: Google Books represents the latest attempt at the centuries-old goal to build a universal library...

Competition in the Health Care Marketplace

Posted on July 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Greaney (St. Louis Law) provided a statement for the Senate hearing on Health Care titled Competition in the Health Care Marketplace. TESTIMONY ABSTRACT: I will first review the federal antitrust enforcement record regarding hospitals,...

Trustbusters

Posted on July 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fred Jenny (OECD, ESSEC, Cour de Cassation) and David Evans (LECG, UCL, University of Chicago) are authors of Trustbusters?Competition Policy Authorities Speak Out. Competition policy (antitrust in the United States) has grown explosively in the...

Co-operation between National Competition Agencies in the Enforcement of EC Competition Law

Posted on July 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Newly in print is Co-operation between National Competition Agencies in the Enforcement of EC Competition Law by Silke Brammer (Law, KU Leuven). BOOK ABSTRACT: In May 2004, the enforcement of the EC competition rules changed...

Broken Health Insurance Markets

Posted on July 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Last thursday David Balto, a Senior Fellow at the Center of American progress testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on "The Effects of Regulatory neglect on Health Care Consumers." ABSTRACT: In that testimony he documents...

The Broadest Competition-Antitrust Law Curriculum

Posted on July 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The winner for LLM programs is UCL. The courses available in the 2009-10 session are: Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: The Regulation of Innovation  22 weeks from October 2009 Competition Law and the...

Institutional Issues in Antitrust

Posted on July 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I spent part of today at the Chilean Competition Tribunal. It hears all antitruscases and has direct appeal to the Chilean Supreme Court. By law it must have 3 lawyers and two PhD economists. I...

Competition Law and Policy

Posted on July 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sorry for the lack of the usual number of posts today. Things should be back to normal tomorrow. I am in Santiago, Chile where I am teaching in the graduate program in competition policy at...

Abuse of Dominance in the Postal Sector ? The Contribution of the Guidance Paper on Article 82 Ec

Posted on July 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Geradin (Tilburg Law) has posted the interesting Abuse of Dominance in the Postal Sector ? The Contribution of the Guidance Paper on Article 82 Ec. ABSTRACT: On December 15, 2005, the European Commission ('Commission')...

International Conference on Competition Law, 6 -7 November 2009, India

Posted on July 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol International Conference on Competition Law, 6 -7 November 2009, Hotel Meridien, New Delhi, India The Conference is being held by the International Academy of Law in association with UK's World Council for Corporate Governance and...

Getting the Balance Right: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia

Posted on July 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The National University of Singapore has a great looking conference in the works for September 7, 2009 - Getting the Balance Right: Intellectual Property, Competition Law and Economics in Asia. This one-day Symposium brings together...

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