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The Antitrust/Intellectual Property Interface: Thoughts on How To Best Wade Through the Thicket in the Pharmaceutical Context

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Rosch (FTC) provides his insights on The Antitrust/Intellectual Property Interface: Thoughts on How To Best Wade Through the Thicket in the Pharmaceutical Context.

Community Structure and Market Outcomes: A Repeated Games in Networks Approach

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Itay Fainmesser (Economics Department, Brown University) has posted a paper on Community Structure and Market Outcomes: A Repeated Games in Networks Approach. ABSTRACT: Consider a large market with asymmetric information, in which sellers choose whether...

A New Learning Tool: The Economics of Seinfeld

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A Web site that uses Seinfeld episodes to explain economics. HT (Jeff Harrison)

Pre-play communication in Cournot competition: An experiment with students and managers

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Israel Waichman (University of Kiel - Econ), Till Requate (University of Kiel - Econ), and Ch?ng Kean Siang (Department of Economics, Universiti Sains Malaysia) analyze Pre-play communication in Cournot competition: An experiment with students and...

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Too Much Information Sharing? Welfare Effects of Sharing Acquired Cost Information in Oligopoly

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Juan Jos� Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics and Business) and Jos Jansen (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) discuss Too Much Information Sharing? Welfare Effects of Sharing Acquired Cost Information in...

Global Issues in Patent Law

Posted on December 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This new book has some interesting commentary on a numberof antitrust-IP interface issues. Adelman, Ghosh, Landers, and Takenaka's Global Issues in Patent Law Martin J. Adelman, Shubha Ghosh, Amy Landers, Toshiko Takenaka Book - softbound...

Empirical Evidence for the Role of the Domain Name Itself in Website Performance

Posted on December 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Karan Girotra, INSEAD - Technology and Operations Management and Karl T. Ulrich, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department provide Empirical Evidence for the Role of the Domain Name Itself in Website Performance...

Advance-Purchase Discounts as a Price Discrimination Device

Posted on December 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim, Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim, and Frank Rosar, University of Bonn analyze Advance-Purchase Discounts as a Price Discrimination Device. ABSTRACT: In an intertemporal setting in which individual uncertainty is resolved...

Institutions and Innovation: A Literature Review of the Impact of Public R&D and Financial Institutions on Firm Innovation

Posted on December 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Charles E. Eesley, Stanford University describes Institutions and Innovation: A Literature Review of the Impact of Public R&D and Financial Institutions on Firm Innovation. ABSTRACT: Institutions and the environment matter for innovation, but which institutions...

Large-Scale Open Innovation: Open Source vs. Patent Pools

Posted on December 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thierry Rayna, London Metropolitan Business School and Ludmila Striukova, University College London address Large-Scale Open Innovation: Open Source vs. Patent Pools. ABSTRACT: The traditional view of innovation, which implies that companies innovate on their own,...

International Competition Law Conference: Competition Law in Transition: Trends and Challenges, Dubrovnik, 15-17 June 2011

Posted on December 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competition Law in Transition:Trends and Challenges We are delighted to invite you to the International Competition Law Conference ?Competition Law in Transition: Trends and Challenges? from June 15-17, 2011 in Dubrovnik. At this conference, supported...

Director Disqualification as a Complement to EU Antitrust Fines: Towards a More Balanced Sanctions Policy

Posted on December 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Powell & Grant McKelvey (White & Case) discuss Director Disqualification as a Complement to EU Antitrust Fines: Towards a More Balanced Sanctions Policy. ABSTRACT: There is an intense debate in competition law circles about...

Quality and welfare in a mixed duopoly with regulated prices: The case of a public and a private hospital

Posted on December 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Annika Herr (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economicsyand Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg and Ruhr Graduate School in Economics) writes on Quality and welfare in a mixed duopoly with regulated prices: The case of a public and a private...

The Inefficiency of Market Transparency ? A Model with Endogenous Entry

Posted on December 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yiquan Gu and Burkhard Hehenkamp explain The Inefficiency of Market Transparency ? A Model with Endogenous Entry. ABSTRACT: Including the entry decision in a Bertrand model with imperfectly informed consumers, we introduce a trade-off at...

Multimarket Contact in Vertically Related Markets

Posted on December 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Talat S. Genc (Department of Economics,University of Guelph) and Sencer Ecer (Department of Economics, Istanbul Technical University) describe Multimarket Contact in Vertically Related Markets. ABSTRACT: We analyze collusion in two comparable market structures...

First filter test of market power in Finnish food retailing sector

Posted on December 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Niemi Jyrki and Xing Liu (both MTT Agrifood Research Finland) describe First filter test of market power in Finnish food retailing sector. ABSTRACT: Buyer power and competition policy in food supply chains has emerged as...

The Effects of Increased Competition in a Vertically Separated Railway Market

Posted on December 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Markus Lang, Marc Laperrouza, and Matthias Finger (all Swiss Economics SE AG) discuss The Effects of Increased Competition in a Vertically Separated Railway Market. ABSTRACT: This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway...

Detecting Market Power Along Food Supply Chains: Evidence From the Fluid Milk Sector in Italy

Posted on December 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cavicchioli D., Universit� degli Studi di Milano, Department of Agricultural Food and Environmental Economics an Policy explains Detecting Market Power Along Food Supply Chains: Evidence From the Fluid Milk Sector in Italy. ABSTRACT: This paper...

Twenty Years After: The Future of Competition Enforcement in the European Union

Posted on December 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rennato Nazzini (Univ. of Southampton School of Law) addresses Twenty Years After: The Future of Competition Enforcement in the European Union. ABSTRACT: Any prediction on where Union competition law enforcement will be in 20 years...

Bank Competition and Stability: Reconciling Conflicting Empirical Evidence

Posted on December 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thorsten Beck, Professor, CentER, European Banking Center, Tilburg University, Olivier De Jonghe, Tilburg University - Department of Finance, Tilburg University - European Banking Center, and Glenn Schepens, Ghent University - Department of Financial Economics address...

Recent Changes in the Regulation of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Europe ? Questioning the Logic of Sector-Specific Rules for the Car Industry

Posted on December 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sandra Colino discusses Recent Changes in the Regulation of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Europe ? Questioning the Logic of Sector-Specific Rules for the Car Industry. ABSTRACT: A new block exemption regulation for motor vehicle distribution...

Judicial Review in European Union Competition Law: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment

Posted on December 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Geradin, Tilburg University - Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), University of Michigan Law School and Nicolas Petit, University of Liege have an interestibng new paper on Judicial Review in European Union Competition Law:...

European Antitrust in 2025: A Strangely Familiar Picture

Posted on December 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert McLeod (MLex) describes European Antitrust in 2025: A Strangely Familiar Picture. ABSTRACT: European antitrust in 2025 will be a strangely familiar place even as a revolution of private enforcement changes the way regulators, industry,...

Hedging Policies, Incentives and Market Power

Posted on December 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David De Angelis, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and S. Abraham Ravid, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Rutgers University - Department of Finance & Economics discuss Hedging...

EC adopts new competition law guidelines on cooperation between competitors

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My friend Steve Cernak emails the following update: First link below is to press release. Second link is to the 94 page set of guidelines in English. The press release says the guidelines provide a...

European Commission Cartel Prosecutions and Fines, 1998-2006 - An Updated Statistical Analysis of Fines under the 1998 Penalty Guidelines

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cento Veljanovski - Case Associates; Institute of Economic Affairs; Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis has prepared the impressive European Commission Cartel Prosecutions and Fines, 1998-2006 - An Updated Statistical Analysis of Fines under the...

EU Competition Law and Policy in 2025: Modernization-Mission Accomplished?

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Assimakis Komninos (Hellenic Competition Commission) asks EU Competition Law and Policy in 2025: Modernization-Mission Accomplished? ABSTRACT: Competition law futurology can be risky. But perhaps not so risky, if we are talking about EU competition law...

Retailer's Market Power and the Optimal Channel Strategies of a Manufacturer In Electronic Commerce

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jae-Cheol Kim, KAIST Graduate School of Management and Se Hak Chun, Seoul National University of Technology address Retailer's Market Power and the Optimal Channel Strategies of a Manufacturer In Electronic Commerce. ABSTRACT: Even though many...

Competition Law and Corporate Accountability

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Phillip Collins (OFT) has given a speech on Competition Law and Corporate Accountability. It is worth a read.

Excessive Pricing and the Goals of Competition Law - An Enforcement Perspective

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol J�rg Philipp Terhechte, University of Hamburg explores Excessive Pricing and the Goals of Competition Law - An Enforcement Perspective. ABSTRACT: The reanimated debate about the regulation or control of exploitative prices by competition authorities can...

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