Corporate & Securities Law

Broadband Access Policy: The Role of Antitrust

Posted on June 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol FTC Commissioner Tom Rosch recently spoke about Broadband Access Policy: The Role of Antitrust. He concludes: In conclusion, let me stress that I consider the current debate about net neutrality to be a legitimate debate....

Canada's Competition Review Panel Report is Out

Posted on June 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competition Policy Review Panel issued its long awaited report to the Minister of Industry. A summary of the report is available at: http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/cprp-gepmc.nsf/en/home. The full report is available at http://www...

Audio Recordings from AAI?s Annual National Conference

Posted on June 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol You can listen to audio recordings from AAI?s Annual National Conference here.

The Waterbed Effect: Where Buying and Selling Power Come Together

Posted on June 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Dobson (Loughborough University Business School) and Roman Inderst (Economics and Finance, University of Frankfurt and London School of Economics) discuss The Waterbed Effect: Where Buying and Selling Power Come Together...

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2-to-1 Mergers: Impossible to Clear?

Posted on June 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The competition policy team over Oxera offers advice on 2-to-1 Mergers: Impossible to Clear? ABSTRACT: A number of (seemingly) 2-to-1 mergers, as well as other mergers in concentrated markets, have been allowed by competition authorities...

Europe and Globalisation of Antitrust

Posted on June 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A great conference will be held June 30 to July 1 by the IBA Antitrust and Trade Law Section and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, and supported by the IBA European Regional Forum on Europe and Globalisation...

Competition Enforcement in an Innovative Economy

Posted on June 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Barnett of DOJ Antitrust recently gave a speech titled Competition Enforcement in an Innovative Economy.

Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference

Posted on June 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Third Annual Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference (CRESSE) will take place from the 28th of June to the 10th of July (Conference: 4-5 July), in the seaside resort area of Anavyssos,...

Merger Stability in a Cost Asymmetric Industry

Posted on June 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Margarida Catalao Lopes Technical University of Lisbon of the Technical University of Lisbon has posted Merger Stability in a Cost Asymmetric Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the formation and stability of mergers involving asymmetric firms,...

Regulation, Allocative Efficiency and Productivity in OECD Countries: Industry and Firm-level Evidence

Posted on June 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A newly posted OECD document, Regulation, Allocative Efficiency and Productivity in OECD Countries: Industry and Firm-level Evidence provides some interesting new evidence. ABSTRACT: We first show, by means of an original set of OECD indicators...

Dynamics and Regulation of the Asian Pharmaceutical Industry: A Critical Review

Posted on June 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol F.M. Scherer of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government discusses Dynamics and Regulation of the Asian Pharmaceutical Industry: A Critical Review in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: This paper provides an overview on 18 papers presented...

The Best US Antitrust Practitioners?

Posted on June 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In looking at the individual rankings from the recently released Chambers 2008 US rankings for both DC and NY, one striking difference between the two lists is that the DC rankings are heavily populated by...

FTC Submits Staff Comment to FAA on Proposed Congestion Management Rule for LaGuardia Airport

Posted on June 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This is travel season and the FTC is on top of this important issue. To make our lives a bit better, the FTC has approved a staff comment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on...

Discount Policies in US and EU Antitrust Enforcement Models: Protecting Competition, Competitors or Consumer Welfare?

Posted on June 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vito Auricchio of Italian law firm Legance has posted his article Discount Policies in US and EU Antitrust Enforcement Models: Protecting Competition, Competitors or Consumer Welfare? ABSTRACT: The paper deals with the issue of the...

Mergers, Asymmetries and Collusion: Experimental Evidence

Posted on June 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Miguel A. Fonseca (University of Exeter School of Business) and Hans-Theo Normann (University of London - Department of Economics) write on Mergers, Asymmetries and Collusion: Experimental Evidence. ABSTRACT: We analyze the impact of mergers in...

Section 2 Remedies: What to Do After Catching the Tiger by the Tail

Posted on June 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Barnett's comments Section 2 Remedies: What to Do After Catching the Tiger by the Tail, which he presented at the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's Conference on Monopolization Remedies are up on the DOJ...

Measuring Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Italian Market

Posted on June 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol C. Andrea Bollino, Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics - University of Perugia and Paolo Polinori, Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics - University of Perugia analyze Measuring Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Italian Market...

The Past, Present, and Future of Monopolization Remedies

Posted on June 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Spencer Waller of Chicago Loyola Law School recently uploaded his paper The Past, Present, and Future of Monopolization Remedies, which he presented at the excellent ABA Section 2 remedies conference earlier this month at UVA...

Divestiture as an Instrument of a Pro-Active Competition Policy: Conceptual Issues and Lessons from International Experiences

Posted on June 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christian von Hirschhausen, German Institute for Economic Research - Department of International Economics Anne Neumann, Dresden University of Technology - Faculty of Business and Economics, and Hannes Weigt, TU Dresden University of Technology - Faculty...

Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis

Posted on June 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The OECD recently released its roundtable discussion and report summary on Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis. ABSTRACT: This roundtable addressed the recurring synergies that mergers sometimes create. These synergies, or ?efficiencies,? can have very potent...

Risk Aversion, Prospect Theory, and Strategic Risk in Law Enforcement: Evidence from an Antitrust Experiment

Posted on June 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maria Bigoni, University of Padua - Department of Economics, Sven-Olof Fridolfsson, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Chloe Le Coq, Stockholm School of Economics, and Giancarlo Spagnolo, University of Tor Vergata, Stockholm School of Economics discuss...

Kovacic on "FTC at 100: Into Our Second Century"

Posted on June 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol New on the FTC website today is a press release on FTC at 100: Into Our Second Century, based on a speech that Chairman Kovacic gave yesterday 21st Annual Western Conference of the Rutgers University...

Disgorgement as an Antitrust Remedy

Posted on June 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge of Harvard Law School offers what I believe is an important additional tool that should be used in the antitrust arsenal of remedies in his thought provoking paper Disgorgement as an Antitrust Remedy....

China Begins Antitrust Probe of Microsoft... Or Maybe Not

Posted on June 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Though the Chinese AML does not go into effect until August 2008, news reports from China (for Chinese language reports see here, here, and here) state that Chinese authorities have already begun an investigation into...

Is Hong Kong's Competition Law Fundmentally Flawed?

Posted on June 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol An article in today's Wall Street Journal casts some doubt on the ability of of the proposed Hong Kong competition law to attach anti-competitive conduct.

Fourth Annual Conference of the Global Competition Law Centre - Cartels and Enforcement Proceedings: Current Legal Issues

Posted on June 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The College of Europe's Global Competition Law Centre hosts its 4th annual program, with a very strong list of speakers on the topic of Cartels and Enforcement Proceedings: Current Legal Issues, starting today. 19-20 June...

Corporate Governance and Collusive Behaviour

Posted on June 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paolo Buccirossi, Laboratory of Economics, Antitrust, Regulation (LEAR) and Giancarlo Spagnolo, University of Tor Vergata, Stockholm School of Economics (SITE) have a very interesting article that brings together corporate governance and antitrust themes, titled Corporate...

Section 2 Enforcement and Developments

Posted on June 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bonny E. Sweeney (Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins) offers some thoughts on Section 2 Enforcement and Developments in the AAI symposium that appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review. ABSTRACT: In the United States, monopoly...

Telecommunications Mergers

Posted on June 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Blogger guru and Dean of the law school Jim Chen of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law has authored a forthcoming chapter on Telecommunications Mergers. ABSTRACT: Telecommunications mergers are at once a historical...

Bundled Discounts as Competition for Distribution

Posted on June 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ben Klein of UCLA (Department of Economics) and LECG discusses Bundled Discounts as Competition for Distribution in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: The antitrust law of bundled discounts is unsettled. LePage?s broadly condemned bundled discounts...

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