Corporate & Securities Law

Merger Efficiencies at the Federal Trade Commission 1997?2007

Posted on February 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Malcolm B. Coate and Andrew J. Heimert (both of the FTC) are authors of the important Merger Efficiencies at the Federal Trade Commission 1997?2007. ABSTRACT: The Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of....

The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices: A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction

Posted on February 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aileen Thompson of the FTC has posted The Effect of Hospital Mergers on Inpatient Prices: A Case Study of the New Hanover-Cape Fear Transaction. ABSTRACT: The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project...

Bruce Springsteen Opposes Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger

Posted on February 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As much as we in the antitrust community like to think that antitrust has become bureaucratized, every once in a while we come to a politically charged deal in which the public and Congress push...

Market Power and Vertical and Horizontal Integration in the Maritime Shipping and Port Industry

Posted on February 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eddy van de Voorde (University of Antwerp, Economics) and Thierry Vanelslander (University of Antwerp, Transport and Regional Economics) discuss Market Power and Vertical and Horizontal Integration in the Maritime Shipping and Port Industry...

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Enhancing Market Power by Reducing Switching Costs

Posted on February 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jan Bouckaert (University of Antwerp, Economics), Hans Degryse (Tilburg University, TILEC, European Banking Center) and Thomas Provoost (University of Leuven, Economics) write on Enhancing Market Power by Reducing Switching Costs...

Double Marginalization in Two-Sided Markets

Posted on February 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol E. Glen Weyl, Harvard Society of Fellows has posted Double Marginalization in Two-Sided Markets. ABSTRACT: Should banks (through Visa) be allowed to own debit clearing networks? This problem combines the classic Cournot (1838)-Spengler (1950) double...

Managing Strategic Buyers

Posted on February 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Johannes Horner (Yale, Economics) and Larry Samuelson (Yale, Economics) think about Managing Strategic Buyers. ABSTRACT: We consider the problem of a monopolist with an object to sell before some deadline, facing n buyers with independent...

Waiting to Merge

Posted on February 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eileen Fumagalli (IEFE, Universita Bocconi) and Tore Nilssen (Economics, University of Oslo) discuss Waiting to Merge. ABSTRACT: We set up a sequential merger to study a firm's incentives to pass up on an opportunity to...

Bundling and Licensing of Genes in Agricultural Biotechnology

Posted on February 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Guanming Shi of the University of Wisconsin, Department of Applied Economics has written a very interesting piece on Bundling and Licensing of Genes in Agricultural Biotechnology. ABSTRACT: We examine the strategic incentive for gene holders...

Tie-In Contracts with Downstream Competition

Posted on February 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sreya Kolay, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine writes on Tie-In Contracts with Downstream Competition. ABSTRACT: A tie-in contract has recently come under scrutiny for its role as an exclusionary device...

The Case for Different Preliminary Injunction Standards in Merger Challenges

Posted on February 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Halkala (Wayne State - Law) provides his analysis of The Case for Different Preliminary Injunction Standards in Merger Challenges. ABSTRACT: Much is made of the different standards that the Federal Trade Commission and the...

On Optimal Legal Standards for Competition Policy: A General Welfare-Based Analysis

Posted on February 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yannis Katsoulacos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Economics)and David Ulph (St. Andrews, Economics) provide thoughts On Optimal Legal Standards for Competition Policy: A General Welfare-Based Analysis. ABSTRACT: We present a new welfare-based framework for...

Two Hospital Mergers on Chicago?s North Shore: A Retrospective Study

Posted on February 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Deborah Haas-Wilson (FTC) and Christopher Garmon (FTC) discuss Two Hospital Mergers on Chicago?s North Shore: A Retrospective Study in their latest working paper, one of a series of working papers to address hospital merger retrospectives...

Extra-territorial Application of Antitrust ? The Case of a Small Economy (Israel)

Posted on February 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Gal of the University of Haifa Law School writes on Extra-territorial Application of Antitrust ? The Case of a Small Economy (Israel). ABSTRACT: International trade has changed some of the challenges faced by antitrust...

Know the Rules or Pay the Price ? Firms and Competition Law Enforcement

Posted on February 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 2 March 200916:30-19:30The Assembly House, Norwich Know the rules or pay the price: Firms and competition law enforcementA collection of short talks by members of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy A number of cases...

Tilburg Law and Economics Center Seeks Postdoctoral Researcher

Posted on February 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol TILEC, THE TILBURG LAW AND ECONOMICS CENTER Postdoctoral Researcher (Full time) (vac. nr. 300.2009.04) See: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/vacancies/ At TILEC, the Tilburg Law and Economics Center, a position for a postdoctoral researcher is available...

Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics

Posted on February 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jaap H. Abbring (Tilburg - Economics) and Jeffrey R. Campbell (University of Chicago - Economics) address Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics. ABSTRACT: This paper extends the static analysis of oligopoly structure into an infinite-horizon setting with...

The Regulatory Challenge to Branding: An Interpretation of UK Competition Authority Investigations 1950-2007

Posted on February 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Ashton (Norwich Business School and the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia) and Andrew Pressey (Management School, Lancaster University) analyze The Regulatory Challenge to Branding: An Interpretation of UK Competition Authority...

Intertemporal Emissions Trading and Allocation Rules: Gainers, Losers and the Spectre of Market Power

Posted on February 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Julien Chevallier (EconomiX - CNRS : UMR7166 - Université de Paris X - Nanterre) has a new working paper on Intertemporal Emissions Trading and Allocation Rules: Gainers, Losers and the Spectre of Market Power. ABSTRACT:...

EU and Pharmaceutical Patents

Posted on February 02, 2009
posted by Shubha Ghosh Readers may be interested in this analysis of the EU Competition Commission's preliminary report on the pharmaceutical industry, published last December. Intellectual Property Rights: The View from Competition Policy by Shubha Ghosh (Wisconsin Law)...

Do Auctions and Forced Divestitures Increase Competition? Evidence for Retail Gasoline Markets

Posted on February 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adriaan R. Soetevent, Amsterdam School of Economics, Tinbergen Institute, Marco A. Haan, University of Groningen - Economics, and Pim Heijnen, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) ask Do Auctions and Forced...

Exploitative Abuse in Article 82EC: Back to Basics?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pinar Akman (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia) writes on Exploitative Abuse in Article 82EC: Back to Basics? ABSTRACT: For the last few years, the EC Commission has been reviewing its application of...

Recent Developments in the Enforcement of Article 82

Posted on January 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CONFERENCE ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF ART. 82 ROME, AGCM (ITALIAN ANTITRUST AUTHORITY), MARCH 6, 2009 The aim of this conference is to address the recent developments on the enforcement of Article...

When Does a Self-Serving Antitrust Authority Act in Society's Best Interests?

Posted on January 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins - Economics) asks When Does a Self-Serving Antitrust Authority Act in Society's Best Interests? ABSTRACT: If an antitrust authority chooses policies to maximize the number of successfully prosecuted cartels, when do...

World Competition Looking for Submissions

Posted on January 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol World Competition Law and Economics Review is a highly regarded journal dedicated to competition and antitrust. It examines all aspects of competition policy, primarily from a legal perspective, but also from an economic point of...

Bertrand's Price Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs

Posted on January 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alejandro Saporitiy (University of Manchester - Economics) and German Coloma (Universidad del CEMA - Economics) analyze Bertrand's Price Competition in Markets with Fixed Costs. ABSTRACT: We analyze Bertrand's price competition in a homogenous good market...

Toward a Better Competition Policy for the Media: The Challenge of Developing Antitrust Policies that Support the Media Sector's Unique Role in Our Democracy

Posted on January 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice E. Stucke, University of Tennessee College of Law and Allen P. Grunes, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP have a new paper on Toward a Better Competition Policy for the Media: The Challenge of Developing...

Merger Retrospective Studies: A Review

Posted on January 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A tam of economists from NERA, Graeme Hunter, Gregory K. Leonard, and G. Steven Olley have a great (and relatively short) piece on Merger Retrospective Studies: A Review. ABSTRACT: The debate concerning whether the antitrust...

3rd Lear Conference on the Economics of Competition Law - Rome

Posted on January 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 3rd Lear Conference on the Economics of Competition Law - Rome, June 25-26, 2009 WHAT MAKES COMPETITION POLICY WORK? Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa Grande Sala dello Stenditoio Via di San Michele 22,...

Antitrust In the New U.S. Administration: A Transatlantic View

Posted on January 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Lianos (UCL - Law) and Abel Mateus (New University of Lisbon - Economics) provide us with Antitrust In the New U.S. Administration: A Transatlantic View. ABSTRACT: The election of the new democratic administration in...

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