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Do Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking Lead to Systematically Excessive Royalties?

Posted on October 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge of Harvard Law School asks Do Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking Lead to Systematically Excessive Royalties? ABSTRACT: Some recent literature has concluded that patent remedies result in systematically excessive royalties because of holdup...

Collusion and Strategic Favoritism in Organizations

Posted on October 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Zhijun Chen, University of East Anglia - Centre for Competition Policy, Zhejiang University - Department of Economics has posted a paper Collusion and Strategic Favoritism in Organizations. ABSTRACT: Fighting collusion has long been a challenge...

Some New Developments after the Coming-into-Effect of Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law

Posted on October 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Liyang Hou of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven provides some thoughts on Some New Developments after the Coming-into-Effect of Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law. ABSTRACT: On 1st August, 2008 Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law (CAL) became effective...

Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881-1913

Posted on October 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am always thrilled when someone does a historical study of antitrust issues. In this vein, Carsten Burhop, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute of Research on Collective...

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Section 2 and Standard Setting: Rambus, N-Data & The Role of Causation

Posted on October 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol FTC Commissioner Tom Rosch delivered a speech on Section 2 and Standard Setting: Rambus, N-Data & The Role of Causation recently. SPEECH ABSTRACT: I had prepared some general remarks on the antitrust issues in standard...

The Next Antitrust Agenda: The American Antitrust Institute's Transition Report on Competition Policy to the 44th President of the United States

Posted on October 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today the American Antitrust Institute released its massive report: The Next Antitrust Agenda: The American Antitrust Institute's Transition Report on Competition Policy to the 44th President of the United States.

Matching Own Prices, Rivals? Prices, or Both

Posted on October 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Morten Hviid, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia and Greg Shaffer, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia; and Simon School of Business, University of Rochester...

Nicolas Petit Wins 2008 Jacques Lassier Prize

Posted on October 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicolas Petit of the University of Liege has won the 2008 Jacques Lassier Prize, granted by the International League of Competition Law. Well done Nicolas!

Recent Developments in Cartel Enforcement at EC and UK Levels?Adjusting the Mix of Carrots and Sticks

Posted on October 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicole Kar, Fabio Falconi, & Priya Sahathevan (all of Linklaters) have some thoughts on Recent Developments in Cartel Enforcement at EC and UK Levels?Adjusting the Mix of Carrots and Sticks. ABSTRACT: The detection and prosecution...

David Balto Receives OCM's John Helmuth Award

Posted on October 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Congratulations to antitrust attorney David Balto, who has recently received the Organization for Competitive Markets' John Helmuth Award. See here for details.

Amendments to the South African Competition Act

Posted on October 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Heather Irvine (Deneys Reitz) provides us with her understanding of Amendments to the South African Competition Act. ABSTRACT: The South African Department of Trade and Industry (?DTI?) has proposed significant amendments to the South African...

Alberto Heimler to Leave the Italian Competition Authority for Academia

Posted on October 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler, the international face of Italian antitrust has announced that he will be leaving the Italian Competition Authority to return to academia. He will take a professorship at the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione...

Are Excessive Prices Really Self-Correcting?

Posted on October 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ariel Ezrachi of University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and David Gilo of Tel Aviv University Law School have a fascinating new paper on Are Excessive Prices Really Self-Correcting? ABSTRACT: Excessive pricing by a dominant...

Cartel Enforcement Today: The Perils of the Economic Downturn

Posted on October 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Does economic downturn lead to crisis cartels? Find out by reading Cartel Enforcement Today: The Perils of the Economic Downturn by Don Klawiter (Mayer Brown). ABSTRACT: These are dangerous times for corporate executives. In times...

Competition Law and Europe's Open Borders: The Case of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Switzerland

Posted on October 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon Evenett, University of St. Gallen - Economics Department and Michael Meier, University of St. Gallen - Economics Department provide a study of Competition Law and Europe's Open Borders: The Case of Motor Vehicle Distribution...

First Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference

Posted on October 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC will hold its First Annual Microeconomics Conference on November 6-7, 2008. The press release states: The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics will host a two day conference to bring together scholars working...

GAO Report on FTC Efforts in the Petroleum Industry

Posted on October 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Last week the GAO released a report on the FTC's activities in the petroleum industry. The title of the report gives away the report's conclusions, Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission's...

Unilateral Effects Under the Guidelines: Models, Merits, and Merger Policy

Posted on October 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Malcolm Coate of the FTC's Bureau of Economics has an interesting new paper on Unilateral Effects Under the Guidelines: Models, Merits, and Merger Policy. One conclusion is noteworthy, "Finally, the Bush administration had no statistically...

Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority Seeks an Economic Adviser

Posted on October 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the press release: The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA) is the competition law enforcement authority for Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in between Great Britain and France. We are also the regulator...

Recent Developments in EU Anti-Cartel Enforcement

Posted on October 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol When you want news about developments in government enforcement, sometimes you want to go to the source. In our case that is Kirtikumar Mehta (European Commission, DG Competition) who writes on Recent Developments in EU...

Rosh Hashana and Antitrust

Posted on September 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) says in the new classic The Big Lebowski, "Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax." Sandy Koufax (pictured left) did not play baseball for the Dodgers...

Against Antitrust Functionalism: Reconsidering China's Antimonopoly Law

Posted on September 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Salil Mehra, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law and Yanbei Meng, Renmin University of China have forthcoming Against Antitrust Functionalism: Reconsidering China's Antimonopoly Law. ABSTRACT: China's new Antimonopoly Law (AML) has been...

Waiting to Merge

Posted on September 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eileen Fumagalli, IEFE, Bocconi University and Tore Nilssen, University of Oslo - Department of Economicshave a new paper titled Waiting to Merge. ABSTRACT: We set up a sequential merger game to study a firm's incentives...

'Consumer Welfar' and Article 82 EC: Practice and Rhetoric

Posted on September 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pinar Akman, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia has written on ?Consumer Welfare? and Article 82 EC: Practice and Rhetoric. ABSTRACT: This paper questions whether the objective of...

Econometrics and Antitrust Law - A Conceptual Clarification

Posted on September 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicolas Petit, University of Liege Law and Ermano Fegatilli, University of Liege Law discuss Econometrics and Antitrust Law - A Conceptual Clarification in their latest working paper. ABSTRACT: The present paper reviews in a plain...

Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance - the European Commission?s Enforcement Priorities

Posted on September 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Neelie Kroes (DG Comp) speech on at Fordham's annual International Antitrust symposium on Exclusionary Abuses of Dominance - the European Commission?s Enforcement Priorities is now available.

CARICOM Competition Commission Active by Next Year?

Posted on September 27, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maybe the CARICOM Competition will have some life to it after all. Stewart Stephenson, one of the seven Commissioners on the CARICOM Competition Commission says that the Commission might become active by February 2009.

FTC Seeks Comments on Proposed Amendments to its Rules of Practice Regarding Adjudicative Proceedings

Posted on September 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to a FTC press release: The Federal Trade Commission today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comment on proposed rule revisions that would amend Parts 3 and 4 of the agency?s...

Separating Pro-Competitive from Anti-Competitive Loyalty Rebates: A Conceptual Framework

Posted on September 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Geradin, Tilburg University - Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) and College of Europe takes has produced a worthwhile read - Separating Pro-Competitive from Anti-Competitive Loyalty Rebates: A Conceptual Framework...

Assessing the Efficacy of Structural Merger Remedies: Choosing between Theories of Harm?

Posted on September 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol An interesting new paper comes from Stephen Davies and Matt Olczak, both of the University of East Anglia Competition Law Centre, titled Assessing the Efficacy of Structural Merger Remedies: Choosing between Theories of Harm? ABSTRACT:...

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