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Two Tales on Resale

Posted on January 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Felix Höffler (Max Planck Institute of Research on Collective Goods) and Klaus M. Schmidt (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Faculty of Economics) provide Two Tales on Resale in their most recent working paper. ABSTRACT: In...

SSRN Most Downloaded New Antitrust Law & Policy Papers (November 21, 2007 to January 20, 2008)

Posted on January 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol SSRN Most Downloaded New Antitrust Law & Policy Papers (November 21, 2007 to January 20, 2008) 1. Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of Certiorari, Pacific Bell...

Competition, Regulation and Development Research Forum Call for Papers

Posted on January 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CUTS invite submission of theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented research papers for the second research cycle of the biennial Competition, Regulation and Development Research Forum (CDRF). The theme for the second cycle is ?Institutional Issues covering...

Conference: Merger Analysis in High Technology Markets

Posted on January 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what includes an impressive list of speakers, Goerge Mason University law School will host a conference on Merger Analysis in High Technology Markets. Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 8:15AM-2:30PM MERGER ANALYSIS IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY MARKETS...

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The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United States at the Aftermath of the Microsoft Cases

Posted on January 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicholas Economides (NYU Stern School of Business) and Ioannis Lianos (University College London Faculty of Law) have written a very important piece on The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United...

Book Party for EC Private Antitrust Enforcement : Decentralised Application of EC Competition Law by National Courts

Posted on January 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hart Publishing, the European University Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) request the pleasure of your company at a book launch and a reception to celebrate the publication of EC Private Antitrust....

Giving the German Cartel Office the Power of Divestiture - The Conformity of the Reform with Constitutional Law

Posted on January 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christoph Engel of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods has suggested some reforms of German competition policy in his paper Giving the German Cartel Office the Power of Divestiture - The Conformity...

Members of Caricom Competition Commission Announced

Posted on January 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The members and backgrounds of the new members of Caricom Competition Commission are available here.

Price Squeezes and the Supreme Court

Posted on January 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Following up on my earlier post regarding recent analysis of the 9th circuit linkLine Communications case, below is the abstract for an amicus brief by economics and law professors supporting certification before the Supreme Court...

AAI Annual National Conference and 10th Anniversary Celebration

Posted on January 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol AAI Annual National Conference and 10th Anniversary Celebration June 19, 2008 Registration Date: February 01, 2008 - June 17, 2008 Location: National Press Club Ballroom 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 The...

Happy 50th Birthday to the Bundeskartellamt and the German Act Against Restraints of Competition

Posted on January 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yesterday in Berlin the Bundeskartellamt celebrated its 50th Anniversary in style with a conference. I was able to find the remarks of Tom Barnett here.

The 'Cut and Paste' of Article 82 of the EC Treaty in Israel: Conditions for a Successful Transplant

Posted on January 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Gal of the University of Haifa Law School has just posed what is a fascinating article on the effectiveness of legal transplant of antitrust in Israel titled The 'Cut and Paste' of Article 82...

Commentary on LinkLine Communications

Posted on January 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol GCP has a number of interesting articles on the implications of the LinkLine Communications case including ones by David Olsky, Jonathan Rubin, Thomas P. Brown, Jonathan Jacobson & Valentina Rucker, and William Baumol et al.

Mergers in Regulated Industries: Electricity

Posted on January 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Carlton of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and DOJ Antitrust Division discusses Mergers in Regulated Industries: Electricity in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: Mergers in any industry can raise complicated questions...

The European Floodgate Has Opened- European Commission Initiates Two New Antitrust Investigations Against Microsoft

Posted on January 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol No doubt emboldened from its success in the CFI's judgment against Microsoft in September, the Commission has gone on the offensive again against Microsoft by initiating two new investigations. According to the press release, "The...

FTC DC Circuit Brief on Whole Foods is Out

Posted on January 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC brief is out. Hat tip to David Balto. Download ftc_openingappealbrief_public.pdf

Most Presidential Hopefuls Antitrust Moderates

Posted on January 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to a Reuters news analysis, Most Presidential Hopefuls Antitrust Moderates. I guess they did not read the John Edwards antitrust manifesto submitted a few months ago to AAI, which suggests Edwards' populist agenda would...

Merger Review: How Much of Industry is Affected in an International Perspective?

Posted on January 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I like the paper Merger Review: How Much of Industry is Affected in an International Perspective? by Jan De Loecker (NYU Stern School of Business) Jozef Konings (Catholic University of Leuven Department of Economics) and...

Legal Unbundling Can Be a Golden Mean between Vertical Integration and Separation

Posted on January 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Felix Hoffler (Max Planck Institute of Research on Collective Goods) and Sebastian Kranz (University of Bonn Department of Economics) discuss Legal Unbundling Can Be a Golden Mean between Vertical Integration and Separation. ABSTRACT: We study...

Australia Gets Tough on Cartels

Posted on January 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol There have been a number of news stories recently on Australian efforts to toughen their anti-cartel laws. Yesterday, the Austrailian government "released draft laws that would impose jail terms of up to five years, and...

Antitrust and the Airline Industry: A Performance Review of 30 Years of Deregulation

Posted on January 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Darren Bush of the University of Houston Law Center has put together an excellent program on Antitrust and the Airline Industry: A Performance Review of 30 Years of Deregulation, sponsored by the University of Houston...

The Concept of an Agreement and Beyond: How to Block Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals to Protect the Heart of Competition

Posted on January 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luis F. Souto Soubrier of the European University Institute has posted on The Concept of an Agreement and Beyond: How to Block Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals to Protect the Heart of Competition. ABSTRACT: This research....

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