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Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure

Posted on May 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joshua S. Gans of the University of Melbourne's Business School offers insights in his article Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure. ABSTRACT: In this article I derive a concentration measure for markets with multiple...

Is the Coach Paid Too Much? Coaching Salaries and the NCAA Cartel

Posted on May 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Amy Farmer (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Department of Economics) and Paul Pecorino (University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies) ask Is the Coach Paid Too Much? Coaching Salaries and...

Entry and Exit Event Analysis

Posted on May 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Johnson of Bates White provides Entry and Exit Event Analysis in his latest paper. ABSTRACT: Economists have analyzed incumbent responses to entry and exit by competitors as probative of competitive effects in several recent...

Cartels, Agency Costs, and Finding Virtue in Faithless Agents

Posted on May 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Leslie of Chicago Kent College of Law provides an interest theory in Cartels, Agency Costs, and Finding Virtue in Faithless Agents. ABSTRACT: Although price-fixing conspiracies are inherently unstable, many cartels manage to endure, often...

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Competition in the Airline Industry

Posted on May 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In the wake of his successful airline deregulation conference earlier this year at the University of Houston, Darren Bush has penned along with my Wisconsin bound co-blogger Shubha Ghosh an interesting article on predation in...

UK Final Grocery Investigation is Out

Posted on May 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yesterday the UK Competition Commission released its grocery sector investigation final report. This is a very important study. Australia will release its grocery study this summer. Hopefully these studies (along with the Irish study last...

IP as Competition Policy

Posted on May 01, 2008
Posted by Shubha Ghosh My co-author Richard Gruner invited me to give a distinguished lecture at John Marshall Law School in Chicago this past Monday. I spoke on the topic of IP as CP: Competition Policy Norms in Intellectual Property...

OECD Seeks Head of Competition Outreach

Posted on May 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The OECD has a great new opening. See their ad below. We are looking for a Head of Competition Outreach with substantial experience in competition policy analysis and the application of competition laws. The selected...

Horizontal Merger Simulation: A Complementary Tool to the Structural Analysis

Posted on May 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tarcisio da Graca of the Brazilian Federal Senate writes about Horizontal Merger Simulation: A Complementary Tool to the Structural Analysis. ABSTRACT: The authorities of the Brazilian competition system decide upon horizontal mergers and acquisitions that...

Cross-Border Mergers in the EU: The Commission v. the Member States

Posted on May 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Harker of the Univeristy of East Anglia - Norwich Law School writes on Cross-Border Mergers in the EU: The Commission v. the Member States in the most recent issue of the European Competition Journal....

Patent Pools, RAND Commitments, and the Problematics of Price Discrimination

Posted on April 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Daniel Crane of Cardozo Law School offers insightful analysis in Patent Pools, RAND Commitments, and the Problematics of Price Discrimination. ABSTRACT: This is a book chapter forthcoming in Working Within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property...

A Practical Application of Event Studies in Merger Assessment: Successes and Failures

Posted on April 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Kokkoris of the OFT and City University weighs in on A Practical Application of Event Studies in Merger Assessment: Successes and Failures. ABSTRACT: The stock market?s reaction to news can be a particularly valuable...

The Role of Economic Evidence in Merger Control in Ireland: Current and Future Practice

Posted on April 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A new article on The Role of Economic Evidence in Merger Control in Ireland: Current and Future Practice by Brendan O'Connor, Commission for Aviation Regulation; Cormac Keating, The Competition Authority; and Paul K. Gorecki, Competition...

An International Competition Fund For the Developing World?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CUTS is floating an interesting proposal to fund developing world competition agencies through a fund made up of money from fines for developing world cartel overcharges. See their policy report below. Download INCSOC_briefing_IntCompFund...

Thirty Years of Solitude: Antitrust Law and Physican Cartels

Posted on April 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Greaney of St. Louis University Law School has an interesting essay on Thirty Years of Solitude: Antitrust Law and Physican Cartels. ABSTRACT: For over thirty years the United States Department of Justice and Federal...

Competition Policy And Merger Analysis In Deregulated And Newly Competitive Industries

Posted on April 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A forthcoming edited book by Peter Carstensen (University of Wisconsin Law) and Susan Beth Farmer (Pennsylvania State Law) provides insights on Competition Policy And Merger Analysis In Deregulated And Newly Competitive Industries...

Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale

Posted on April 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Emi Nakamura of Columbia's Economics Department addresses Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale in her latest working paper. ABSTRACT: This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of...

The Great Global Vitamins Conspiracy: Sanctions and Deterrence

Posted on April 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Connor, the empiricist who has done more than any other academic to explain international cartels tells a compelling story about The Great Global Vitamins Conspiracy: Sanctions and Deterrence. ABSTRACT: When they were discovered in...

Bargaining in the Shadow of the European Microsoft Decision: The Microsoft-Samba Protocol License

Posted on April 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My colleague William H. Page (University of Florida) and University of Florida law school student Seldon J. Childers have collaborated on Bargaining in the Shadow of the European Microsoft Decision: The Microsoft-Samba Protocol License...

Kudos to Spencer Waller

Posted on April 27, 2008
Posted by Shubha Ghosh I just came back from Chicago where I attended Professor Spencer Waller's eighth antitrust colloquium. The conference was stimulating and the discussion lively, with a wide range of viewpoints, both academic and practitioner being represented...

Economics Of Antitrust Law

Posted on April 27, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol An excellent edited book of two volumes will hit book stands in June 2008, titled Economics Of Antitrust Law, which is edited by Benjamin Klein (UCLA) and Andres V. Lerner (LECG). Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements...

Competition and Market Concentration

Posted on April 26, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nazmi Sari of the University of Saskatchewan - Department of Economics writes on Competition and Market Concentration with a health care bent. ABSTRACT: Hospital markets have become highly concentrated due to increasing numbers of mergers...

Vertical Restraints in Competition Law Conference

Posted on April 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol University College London and Coll�ge europ�en de Paris - Universit� Paris-II Panth�on Assas co-host Vertical Restraints in Competition Law. The conference will be held on Friday May 23, 2008. PROGRAMME 8h30 Registration 9h00 Introduction: Professor...

Revised British Merger Guidlines

Posted on April 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UK Competition Commission and Office of Fair Traiding are working on revised joint merger guidelines. The press release is here.

Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct

Posted on April 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A must read paper is Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct by Dennis W. Carlton (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) and Ken Heyer (DOJ). ABSTRACT: In this article we distinguish between two types...

The Protection of the Right to Private Life, Home and Correspondence v the Efficient Enforcement of Competition Law: Is a New EC Competition Court the Way Forward?

Posted on April 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michele Messina, University of London - Department of Mathematics, University of Rome- La Sapienza, University of Messina - Institute of Legal Sciences offers an intriguing proposal to change the institutional design of EC competition law...

IPR on Information and Market Power: Comparing the European and American Protections of Databases

Posted on April 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Estelle Derclaye of the University of Nottingham School of Law has a new working paper on IPR on Information and Market Power: Comparing the European and American Protections of Databases. ABSTRACT: When the database sui...

Call For Papers - Deterrance in Competition Policy

Posted on April 24, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Call For Papers Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) Reichpietschufer 50 D-10785 Berlin Germany Room A300 Contact: Jo Seldeslachts Conference email: ioconf2008@wzb.eu The WZB will stage its 15th conference on Markets and Politics on October 17-18, 2008, in...

Call For Papers - FTC Microeconomics Conference

Posted on April 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics will host a two day conference to bring together scholars working in industrial organization, information economics, game theory, quantitative marketing, consumer behavior, and other areas related to the...

Auctions, Exclusive Contracts and Competition for the Market

Posted on April 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alexandra Merrett, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and University of Melbourne, and Rhonda L. Smith, University of Melbourne - Department of Economics, have a new paper out titled Auctions, Exclusive Contracts and Competition for the...

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