Corporate & Securities Law

Signaling with Performance and the Effect of Competition

Posted on January 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Toru Suzuki (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena) explains Signaling with Performance and the Effect of Competition. ABSTRACT: Candidates compete to persuade a decision maker. The decision maker wishes to select a candidate who possesses...

Negative and Positive Effects of Competition in a Preemption Game

Posted on January 11, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Toru Suzuki (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena) describes Negative and Positive Effects of Competition in a Preemption Game. ABSTRACT: Agents compete to acquire a limited economic opportunity of uncertain profitability...

Counting Rivals or Measuring Share: Modeling Unilateral Effects for Merger Analysis

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Malcolm Coate (FTC) has posted Counting Rivals or Measuring Share: Modeling Unilateral Effects for Merger Analysis. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the FTC?s unilateral effects merger policy using a sample of 184 investigations undertaken between 1993...

Introduction to ?Competition Policy in Health Care in an Era of Reform?

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted D. Daniel Sokol Max Huffman, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis has produced an Introduction to ?Competition Policy in Health Care in an Era of Reform?. ABSTRACT: Health care reform recently has been signed into law by President...

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The Predictive Power of Merger Analysis

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John B. Kirkwood, Seattle University School of Law discusses The Predictive Power of Merger Analysis. ABSTRACT: This article evaluates the predictive power of merger analysis. It looks first at the process courts use to resolve...

A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail'

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Frederic M. Scherer, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School describes A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail'. ABSTRACT: This paper, written for a conference at the Fordham University Law School, examines various facets of...

Call for Papers: SECOND WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SECOND WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW From June 5 to June 7, 2011, the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and...

15th International Conference on Competition, Berlin on 13 ? 15 April 2011

Posted on January 10, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The International Conference on Competition has been organised by the Bundeskartellamt every other year since the early 1980s. The conference is one of the most prominent international events dealing with competition law issues...

A single UK competition authority? Merging the OFT and the Competition Commission

Posted on January 09, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol You are cordially invited to the second UEA Policy Briefing: A single UK competition authority? Merging the OFT and the Competition Commission School of Political, Social and International Studies School of Economics ESRC Centre for...

2011 MILTON HANDLER LECTURE

Posted on January 08, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol THE ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE 2011 MILTON HANDLER LECTURE Professor Handler and the New York City Bar...

The Economics of Network Neutrality

Posted on January 07, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicholas Economides, New York University - Stern School of Business and Benjamin E. Hermalin, University of California, Berkeley desribe The Economics of Network Neutrality. ABSTRACT: Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties:...

In Defense of Monopoly

Posted on January 07, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard B. McKenzie University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business has a provacative piece In Defense of Monopoly. ABSTRACT: Standard economic analysis of monopoly asserts that if prices are above marginal costs,...

Collusion and the Choice of Auction: An Experimental Study

Posted on January 07, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeroen Hinloopen, University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and Sander Onderstal, University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute provide insights on Collusion and the Choice of Auction: An Experimental Study. ABSTRACT: We experimentally examine the collusive properties of...

Call for Papers: Seventeenth CLaSF Workshop Competition Law, Private Enforcement, Access to Justice and Consumer Redress

Posted on January 07, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Seventeenth CLaSF Workshop Competition Law, Private Enforcement, Access to Justice and Consumer Redress Glasgow, Thursday 7 April 2011 Strathclyde University, Graham Hills Building, 50 George Street, Glasgow, Call for Papers The Competition Law Scholars Forum...

A Treatment Effect Method for Merger Analysis with an Application to Parking Prices in Paris

Posted on January 07, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philippe Chone, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) and Laurent Linnemer, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Laboratory of Industrial Economics explain A Treatment Effect Method for Merger Analysis with...

The Lagardère Judgment of the General Court: Is warehousing back on the scene?

Posted on January 06, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Tayar (Willkie Farr & Gallagher) asks The Lagardère Judgment of the General Court: Is warehousing back on the scene? ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the judgment rendered in case T-294/04. It does not comment...

Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices

Posted on January 06, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthew Grennan, University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management analyze Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices. ABSTRACT: Many important issues in business-to-business markets involve price discrimination and negotiated prices,...

Market Structure, Countervailing Power and Price Discrimination: The Case of Airports

Posted on January 06, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonathan E. Haskel, Imperial College London - Tanaka Business School, Alberto Iozzi, Universita degli Studi di Roma, and Tommaso M. Valletti, University of London - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Rome...

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK: GEOGRAPHIC MARKET DEFINITION AND THE FTC'S CASE AGAINST CHICAGOLAND PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATIONS

Posted on January 06, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gregory D. Adams (CRA) and Fred S. McChesney (Northwestern Law) describe NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK: GEOGRAPHIC MARKET DEFINITION AND THE FTC'S CASE AGAINST CHICAGOLAND PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATIONS. ABSTRACT: In the past decade, the Federal...

Vertical Integration and Efficiency: an application to the Italian Machine Tool Industry

Posted on January 05, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto (DISA, Faculty of Economics, Trento University) analyze Vertical Integration and Efficiency: an application to the Italian Machine Tool Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the relationship between firm efficiency and vertical...

European competition policy and social market economy

Posted on January 05, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Frédéric Marty (CNRS UMR 6227 GREDEG - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis) addresses European competition policy and social market economy. ABSTRACT: The paper deals first with the influence of ordo-liberal school of thought on the German...

Article 102 TFEU: exclusive dealing and rebates

Posted on January 05, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luc Peeperkorn and Ekaterina Rousseva discuss Article 102 TFEU: exclusive dealing and rebates. ABSTRACT: On 9 September the General Court upheld the Commission decision (COMP/E-1/38.113) finding that Tomra, a Norwegian producer of reverse vending machines...

How Much Lower Are Prices at Discount Stores? An Examination of Retail Food Prices

Posted on January 05, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ephraim Leibtag Catherine Barker Paula Dutko (all U.S. Department of Agriculture) ask How Much Lower Are Prices at Discount Stores? An Examination of Retail Food Prices. ABSTRACT: Nontraditional stores, including mass merchandisers, supercenters, club warehouse...

Antitrust in 2025: Cartels, Agency Effectiveness and a Return to Back to the Future

Posted on January 05, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol ??D. Daniel Sokol (University of Florida Levin College of Law) has posted Antitrust in 2025: Cartels, Agency Effectiveness and a Return to Back to the Future. ABSTRACT: Predicting the future is difficult. Advances in economics...

Monitoring Managers Through Corporate Compliance Programs

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Charles Angelucci, University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Martijn A. Han, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) have an interesting new paper on Monitoring Managers....

Competition of E-Commerce Intermediaries

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alexander Matros (University of South Carolina) and Andriy Zapechelnyuk (Queen Mary, University of London) discuss Competition of E-Commerce Intermediaries. ABSTRACT: In e-commerce, where information collection is essentially costless and geographic location of traders matters very...

Price Competition in International Mixed Oligopolies

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alessandra Chirco (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy) and Marcella Scrimitore (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA), Rimini, Italy) write on Price Competition in International Mixed Oligopolies...

The Impact of the Internet on Retail Competition: Evidence from Technological Differences in Internet Access

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Georg Gebhardt (University of Munich) provides research on The Impact of the Internet on Retail Competition: Evidence from Technological Differences in Internet Access. ABSTRACT: Does the internet increase competition? To address this question, I exploit...

Does Schumpeterian Creative Destruction Lead to Higher Productivity? The effects of firms? entry

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Carlos Carreira (GEMF/Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) and Paulino Teixeira (GEMF/Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) ask Does Schumpeterian Creative Destruction Lead to Higher Productivity? The effects of firms? entry...

OECD Job Opening in the Competition Division ? Deadline for applications is 20 January 2011

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the OECD ad: We are looking for a Senior Expert with substantial experience in competition policy analysis and application of laws. Under the supervision of the Head of the Competition Division, s/he will draft...

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