Corporate & Securities Law

Ninth ACCC Regulatory Conference

Posted on May 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Australia's ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) is hosting its Ninth ACCC Regulatory Conference on July 24-25, 2008 at the Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland. The theme for this year's conference is 'Revisiting...

Will There Be Article 82 Guidelines and What Are the Implications?

Posted on May 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen (ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia) asks Will There Be Article 82 Guidelines and What Are the Implications? ABSTRACT: The question that is the title of this article is very...

Unlocking Technology: Innovation and Antitrust

Posted on May 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Spulber of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business has a forthcoming article that is a worthwhile read on Unlocking Technology: Innovation and Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Technology lock-in advocates argue that governments should step in to coordinate...

5th Annual Seoul International Competition Forum

Posted on May 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The 5th Annual Seoul International Competition Forum in conjunction with the Asian International Competition Policy Conference and the 13th International Workshop on Competition Policy, together perhaps Asia's most important competition policy conference, is soon approaching--...

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Are Joint Negotiations in Standard Setting 'Reasonably Necessary'?

Posted on May 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anne Layne-Farrar (LECG), Gerard Llobet (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros) and A. Jorge Padilla (LECG) ask Are Joint Negotiations in Standard Setting 'Reasonably Necessary'? ABSTRACT: The quote in the title refers to a recurring...

TOP 10 Most Downloaded New Papers on SSRN for Antitrust Law & Policy March 12 - May 11

Posted on May 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Below are the most downloaded newly posted SSRN antitrust papers of the last two months. 1. Loyalty Discounts and Naked Exclusion Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School, 2. The Roberts Court after Two Years: Antitrust, Intellectual...

Most Downloaded Antitrust Law Professors of the Last 12 Months

Posted on May 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The following is the list of the most downloaded antitrust professors based on downloads within the past year. To make the list, the majority of recent articles uploaded to SSRN must have been written on...

Microsoft: What Sort of Landmark?

Posted on May 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Daniel Beard of Mockton Chambers asks Microsoft: What Sort of Landmark? ABSTRACT: The Microsoft judgment was a big decision in the sense that it is long and concerns an important company. If it can be...

The Commission on Velvet: Why it will probably not issue Article 82 guidelines any time soon

Posted on May 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Gerard of the University of Louvain explains The Commission on Velvet: Why it will probably not issue Article 82 guidelines any time soon. ABSTRACT: The publication of the Discussion Paper in December 2005 sparked...

40 Under 40 Best Antitrust Practitioners

Posted on May 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The latest issue of the Global Competition Review lists the GCR 40 Under 40 among practitioners.

Competition Policy in Hong Kong -- Implications for Supermarkets and Other Highly Concentrated Sectors

Posted on May 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As regular readers of the blog know, I am very interested in supermarket competition issues. A news story on the soon to be implemented competition law in Hong Kong focuses on the potential application of...

Israel at 60 - Antitrust Implications

Posted on May 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Israel turns 60 years old this week. Antitrust has become more important as Israel has moved towards to market system and away from its socialist origins. As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, one piece of...

Consumer Welfare, Standard of Proof and the Objectives of Competition Policy

Posted on May 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Italian practitioners Vito Auricchio and Alberto Pera (the latter is the former Secretary General of the Italian Competition Authority) of Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners have written an article on Consumer Welfare, Standard of Proof...

Stock Market Event Studies and Competition Commission Inquiries

Posted on May 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lucy Beverly of the UK Competition Commission has an interesting paper on Stock Market Event Studies and Competition Commission Inquiries. ABSTRACT: Cumulative abnormal returns are calculated over an event window of three days to take...

Agencies, Networks, Discourses and the Trajectory of European Competition Enforcement

Posted on May 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen Wilks of the University of Exeter Department of Political Science discusses Agencies, Networks, Discourses and the Trajectory of European Competition Enforcement. ABSTRACT: This article assesses European competition enforcement from a perspective of political science...

Bates White Fifth Annual Antitrust Conference

Posted on May 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Details are avaiable for the Bates White Fifth Annual Antitrust Conference. Monday, June 2, 2008 Bates White, LLC 1300 Eye Street NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005 Registration 2:45?3:00 p.m. Bates White, LLC 1300 Eye...

South African Competition Policy in 2008: Key Priorities of the Competition Commission

Posted on May 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon Roberts (Competition Commission of South Africa) provides insights into South African Competition Policy in 2008: Key Priorities of the Competition Commission. ABSTRACT: In its ninth year of operation, the main priorities of the South...

Multi-Jurisdictional Competition Law Enforcement: The Interface between European Competition Law and the Competition Laws of the New Member States

Posted on May 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kati Cseres, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, writes about Multi-Jurisdictional Competition Law Enforcement: The Interface between European Competition Law and the Competition Laws of the New Member States in her...

An Antitrust Index For Empirical Analysis of International Competition Policy

Posted on May 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Nicholson (Professor, Business and Economics Division, Transylvania University) provides An Antitrust Index For Empirical Analysis of International Competition Policy in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Competition law and Economics...

Recent Developments, Trends, and Milestones In The Antitrust Division's Criminal Enforcement Program

Posted on May 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DOJ has a short speech by Scott Hammond available online titled Recent Developments, Trends, and Milestones In The Antitrust Division's Criminal Enforcement Program that includes a number of useful charts regarding cartel enforcement.

Microsoft (EC) and Duty to Deal: Exceptionality and the Transatlantic Divide

Posted on May 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eleanor Fox of NYU Law provides a detailed analysis of Microsoft (EC) and Duty to Deal: Exceptionality and the Transatlantic Divide in her latyest article. ABSTRACT: This article examines Microsoft?s offense in withholding full information...

A Model of Vertical Oligopolistic Competition

Posted on May 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Markus Reisinger and Monika Schnitzer of the University of Munich - Economics Department provide A Model of Vertical Oligopolistic Competition. ABSTRACT: This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for...

Seminar on Rambus Decision

Posted on May 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Law Seminars International is pleased to present a one-hour expert telephone analysis on the long awaited DC Circuit decision in FTC v. Rambus, Thursday, May 8, at 2:00 PM (Eastern)/11:00 AM (Pacific). To address this...

Who Must Fear the Brazilian Antitrust Authority? The Control of Cartels and Monopolies in Brazil During the Last 10 Years (1998-2007)

Posted on May 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol João Eduardo Gomide de Paula, Ademir Antonio Fereira, and Gabriel Nascimento Pinto, all of the University of São Paulo provide an interesting paper in Who Must Fear the Brazilian Antitrust Authority? The Control of Cartels...

A Perspective on the Whole Foods Decision: Would the Most Important Evidence Please Stand Up?

Posted on May 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Deborah Feinstein (Arnold & Porter) & Michael Bernstein (Arnold & Porter) provide A Perspective on the Whole Foods Decision: Would the Most Important Evidence Please Stand Up? In the old game show, To Tell the...

EC Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases

Posted on May 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Just out from Hart Publishing is EC Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases by Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford - Faculty of Law). In my opinion, this book is required reference material for all...

Using the 'Consumer Choice' Approach to Antitrust Law

Posted on May 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert H. Lande of the University of Baltimore Law School and Neil W. Averitt of the FTC have a fascinating work on Using the 'Consumer Choice' Approach to Antitrust Law that offers a new approach...

A Tale of Two EC Cases: IBM and Microsoft

Posted on May 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Vickers of the University of Oxford Economics Department tells A Tale of Two EC Cases: IBM and Microsoft in the latest issue of Competition Policy International. ABSTRACT: Arguably the largest abuse of dominance case...

Vertical Merger Enforce Practice & Theory Recent Developments from the US & European Commission

Posted on May 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section Mergers and Acquisitions Committee has organized what looks to be an excellent program on Vertical Merger Enforce Practice & Theory Recent Developments from the US & European Commission. Date: May 12,...

Airline Code-Share Alliances and Their Competitive Effects

Posted on May 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Airline mergers and alliances are at the forefront of the news. We get some empirical evidence of Airline Code-Share Alliances and Their Competitive Effects from Philip G. Gayle at Kansas State University - Department of...

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