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Endogenous Product Differentiation, Market Size and Prices

Posted on January 19, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Shon Ferguson (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University) discusses Endogenous Product Differentiation, Market Size and Prices. ABSTRACT: Recent empirical evidence suggests that prices for many goods and services are higher in larger markets...

Economic Doctrines and Approaches to Antitrust

Posted on January 19, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Economic Doctrines and Approaches to Antitrust Event There is considerable disagreement on optimal antitrust policy both within the United States and between the United States and other nations. These fundamental disagreements over the right approach...

European Merger Control

Posted on January 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Rosenthal (Hunton & Williams) and Stefan Thomas (University of Tübingen - Law) have a new book on European Merger Control. BOOK ABSTRACT: European merger control is among the most important and complex aspects of...

Competition Commission of India's Trysts with Law and Policy: Enforcement One Year On

Posted on January 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pallavi S. Shroff & Harman Singh Sandhu (Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co) explain Competition Commission of India's Trysts with Law and Policy: Enforcement One Year On. ABSTRACT: The (Indian) Competition Act,...

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Antitrust 2025

Posted on January 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice Stucke (Tennessee Law) predicts Antitrust 2025. ABSTRACT: Antitrust policy in the United States has roughly twenty to thirty year cycles: (i) after initial dormancy, 1900-1920, the promise of antitrust; (ii) 1920s-mid-1930s, antitrust dormancy in...

Commission launches second monitoring exercise of patent settlements in pharma sector

Posted on January 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Commission launches second monitoring exercise of patent settlements in pharma sector From the Commission press release: The European Commission has addressed information requests to selected pharmaceutical companies, asking them to submit copies of their patent...

The End of Per Se Illegal Tying

Posted on January 18, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Leslie (UC Irvine Law) predicts The End of Per Se Illegal Tying. ABSTRACT: When making predictions about the future of antitrust law, one can err in one of two directions: making a bold prediction...

Jurisdiction and Judgments in Relation to EU Competition Law Claims

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mihail Danov (Brunel University - Law) has a new book on Jurisdiction and Judgments in Relation to EU Competition Law Claims. ABSTRACT: This book sets out the way that, through enhanced private antitrust enforcement reform,....

Gas Release and Transport Capacity Investment as Instruments to Foster Competition in Gas Markets

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Corinne Chaton (Laboratoire de Finance des Marchés d'Energies), Farid Gasmi (Toulouse School of Economics (ARQADE & IDEI)), Marie-Laure Guillerminet (Hamburg University (FNU)), and Juan Daniel Oviedo (Universidad del Rosario) advocate Gas Release and Transport Capacity...

Enter the 2011 NYSBA Section of Antitrust Law $5,000 Annual Law Student Writing Competition

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust Law Students: Submit now to the NYSBA Section of Antitrust Law Annual Law Student Writing Competition $5,000 cash prize and publication of the winning article How to Enter: 1.) Eligible articles must be written...

Job Opening: New Zealand Competition Policy | Senior/Policy Analyst

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We are looking for an experienced Policy Advisor to join our Competition, Trade and Investment Branch, where you will have responsibility for providing high quality policy advice in relation to competition policy. The team is...

Sales, Quantity Surcharge, and Consumer Inattention

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sofronis Clerides, University of Cyprus and Pascal Courty, University of Victoria have written on Sales, Quantity Surcharge, and Consumer Inattention. ABSTRACT: Quantity surcharges occur when firms market a product in two sizes and offer a...

Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure

Posted on January 17, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Volodymyr Bilotkach and Kai Hüschelrath (WZB) discuss Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity...

On the Move: Wentong Zheng from Buffalo to the University of Florida

Posted on January 16, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am thrilled to report that joining our law faculty next fall laterally from Buffalo Law is Wentong Zheng (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005; J.D., Stanford University, 2005; M.A., Renmin University of China, 1998; B.A., Renmin...

Newest Issue of Competition Policy Newsletter is Out

Posted on January 15, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DG Competition has posted the newest issue of its Competition Policy Newsletter. Antitrust Swedish Interconnector case: improving electricity cross-border trade by Philippe Chauve, Elzbieta Glowicka, Martin Godfried, Edouard Leduc and Stefan Siebert The new block...

An Empirical Assessment of the 2004 EU Merger Policy Reform

Posted on January 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tomaso Duso (Humboldt University Berlin and WZB), Klaus Guglery (Vienna University of Economics and Business), and Florian Szücs (University of Vienna) provide An Empirical Assessment of the 2004 EU Merger Policy Reform. ABSTRACT: Based on...

Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?

Posted on January 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dirk Czarnitzki and Bernd Ebersberger (ZEW) ask Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy? ABSTRACT: This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in...

The end of the Bertrand Paradox?

Posted on January 14, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marie-Laure Cabon-Dhersin (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris)...

M&A Under China?s Anti-Monopoly Law: Emerging Patterns

Posted on January 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yee Wah Chin, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP has posted M&A Under China?s Anti-Monopoly Law: Emerging Patterns. ABSTRACT: China?s Anti-Monopoly Law became effective on August 1, 2008, following its enactment on August 30,...

A methodology for the evaluation of competition policy

Posted on January 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kai Hüschelrath and Nina Leheyda (WZB) provide A methodology for the evaluation of competition policy. ABSTRACT: The paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of competition policy. Based on the existing literature and experiences with...

Fighting hard core cartels

Posted on January 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand (ZEW) describe Fighting hard core cartels. ABSTRACT: The paper provides a comprehensive survey of the economics behind the fight against hard core cartels. Differentiating between four subsequent stages - characterisation,...

2025: Reverse-Payment Settlements Unleashed

Posted on January 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael A. Carrier (Rutgers Univ. School of Law-Camden) predicts 2025: Reverse-Payment Settlements Unleashed. ABSTRACT: The year is 2025. For the past two decades, brand-name drug companies have settled infringement lawsuits with generic firms by paying...

Behavioural Economics and Competition, London, England, 25 January 2011

Posted on January 13, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Behavioural Economics and Competition London, England 25 January 2011 Hosted By: NERA Economic Consulting Do consumers make rational decisions? Can the way in which choices are presented nudge our conduct and influence outcomes? Why are...

Call for Papers - Industrial organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments, University of Salento in Otranto (Lecce), JUNE 23-24, 2011

Posted on January 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Workshop ?INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: THEORY, EMPIRICS AND EXPERIMENTS?, 2nd edition, organized by the University of Salento in Otranto (Lecce), JUNE 23-24, 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS We welcome submissions of papers in the following areas and any...

Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice

Posted on January 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Zhijun Chen (Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS : UMR7176 - Polytechnique - X, Department of Computer Science [Auckland] - The University of Auckland) and Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics - Toulouse School...

A Framework for Analyzing Competition in the Banking Sector: An Application to the Case of Jordan

Posted on January 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Asli Demirguc-Kunt, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) provide A Framework for Analyzing Competition in the Banking Sector: An Application to the...

A Man of Flowers: A Reflection on Plant Patents, the Right to Food and Competition Law

Posted on January 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Geertrui Van Overwalle, Leuven University, Tilburg University has written on A Man of Flowers: A Reflection on Plant Patents, the Right to Food and Competition Law. ABSTRACT: The present paper explores the multi-layered relationship between...

Predation enforcement options: An evaluation using a Cournot framework

Posted on January 12, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand (ZEW) describe Predation enforcement options: An evaluation using a Cournot framework. ABSTRACT: The paper characterises the building blocks of a framework to enforce antipredation rules and subsequently evaluates selected enforcement...

Endogenous quality choice under upstream market power

Posted on January 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Borja Mesa Sánchez (Dpto. Fundamentos del Análisis Económico) describes Endogenous quality choice under upstream market power. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes how the existence of upstream market power affects endogenous quality choice in a setting where...

Resale Price Maintenance: Consignment Agreements, Copyrighted or Patented Products and the First Sale Doctrine

Posted on January 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa - College of Law analyzes Resale Price Maintenance: Consignment Agreements, Copyrighted or Patented Products and the First Sale Doctrine. ABSTRACT: The rule of reason adopted for resale price maintenance...

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