Corporate & Securities Law

The Impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kati Cseres, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics discusses The Impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States. ABSTRACT: Regulation 1/2003 entered into force on 1 May 2004 introducing a...

Antitrust Rules and Standard-Setting: A New Dawn in China?

Posted on December 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adrian Emch (Hogan Lovells) asks Antitrust Rules and Standard-Setting: A New Dawn in China? ABSTRACT: How China?s incipient antitrust regime applies to standard setting is a relatively unexplored question. In the past few months, however,...

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

Posted on December 14, 2010
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...

University of Melbourne Cartel Project Initial Report

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Cartel Project team from the University of Melbourne has produced its initial report on a major survey of the Australian public completed in July this year relating to the government?s recent decision to criminalise...

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Call for Papers: Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation . The conference will be...

EU Antitrust Enforcement in 2025: ?Why Wait? Full Appellate Jurisdiction, Now?

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Gerard (University of Louvain) predicts EU Antitrust Enforcement in 2025: ?Why Wait? Full Appellate Jurisdiction, Now?. ABSTRACT: In a series of speeches delivered over the past few weeks, EU Competition Commissioner Almunia and DG...

Why More Antitrust Immunity for the Media is a Bad Idea

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice E. Stucke, University of Tennessee College of Law and Allen P. Grunes, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP explain Why More Antitrust Immunity for the Media is a Bad Idea. ABSTRACT: With their financial difficulties,...

Consumers and sellers heterogeneity, search costs and spatial price dispersion in retail food markets

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anania G. and Nisticò R. (Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (Cs), Italy) examine Consumers and sellers heterogeneity, search costs and spatial price dispersion in retail food markets...

Deregulation of shopping hours: The impact on independent retailers and chain stores

Posted on December 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tobias Wenzel (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) Department of Economics) looks at Deregulation of shopping hours: The impact on independent retailers and chain stores. ABSTRACT: This paper studies shopping hour decisions by retail chains...

Optimal Contract Reformation as a New Approach to Private Antitrust Damages in Cartel Cases

Posted on November 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alessio Aresu, College of Europe, Bruges, Latham & Watkins - Law describes Optimal Contract Reformation as a New Approach to Private Antitrust Damages in Cartel Cases. ABSTRACT: This article proposes an incentive-based method to facilitate...

Transaction et concurrence Quels enseignements des premières décisions communautaires ? Points de vue européen et français

Posted on November 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol La revue Concurrences, en partenariat avec les Petits-déjeuners Sorbonne Affaires, vous invitent à assister à un petit-déjeuner débat: Transaction et concurrence Quels enseignements des premières décisions communautaires ? Points de vue européen et français Avec...

Using Rival Effects to Identify Synergies and Improve Merger Typologies

Posted on November 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tomaso Duso, Humboldt University of Berlin - School of Business and Economics, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - Competitiveness and Industrial Change and Joseph A. Clougherty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Centre for Economic Policy...

The Future of U.S. Antitrust: Do Landmark Changes Portend A Turbulent Future?

Posted on November 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Future of U.S. Antitrust: Do Landmark Changes Portend A Turbulent Future? A non-CLE teleconference proudly presented by the ABA SIL International Antitrust Law Committee November 30, 2010 12:00 p.m. ? 1:30 p.m. EST Register...

EU Cartel Law and the Shaking Foundations of Judicial Review

Posted on November 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Gerard, Louvain University - Law explains EU Cartel Law and the Shaking Foundations of Judicial Review. ABSTRACT: Over the years, the Court of Justice has played an important role in framing the development of...

Games Judges Don't Play: Predatory Pricing and Strategic Reasoning in US Antitrust

Posted on November 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa - Department of Economics explores Games Judges Don't Play: Predatory Pricing and Strategic Reasoning in US Antitrust. ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the last three decades of debates on predatory pricing...

Supreme Court Verdict in CCI v SAIL: Setting the Ground Rules for the Commission and the Appellate Tribunal

Posted on November 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Parthsarathi Jha (Trilegal) describes Supreme Court Verdict in CCI v SAIL: Setting the Ground Rules for the Commission and the Appellate Tribunal. ABSTRACT: In a recent telling judgment, the Supreme Court of India effectively and...

Banking sector competition in Russia

Posted on November 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Diego Anzoategui, María Soledad Martínez Pería and Martin Melecky (all World Bank)discuss Banking sector competition in Russia. ABSTRACT: The Russian banking sector includes approximately 1,000 banks, but is it competitive? This paper analyzes bank competition...

Is a Margin Squeeze an Antitrust or Regulatory Violation?

Posted on November 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler (Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione) asks Is a Margin Squeeze an Antitrust or Regulatory Violation? ABSTRACT:Margin squeezes can be evaluated under a predation or a refusal-to-deal standard. Both Carlton and Sidak argue in...

The Use of Surveys in Merger and Competition Analysis

Posted on November 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steven Hurley (CAT) describes The Use of Surveys in Merger and Competition Analysis. ABSTRACT:Data generated from surveys have long been used to gather information from a large population efficiently. Used properly by competition authorities and...

On Price Taking Behavior in a Nonrenewable Resource Cartel-Fringe Game

Posted on November 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hassan Benchekroun Department of Economics, CIREQ. McGill University and Cees Withagen Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam provide thoughts On Price Taking Behavior in a Nonrenewable Resource Cartel-Fringe Game...

Optimal Leniency Programs in Antitrust

Posted on November 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrea Pinna (Queen Mary, University of London and CRENoS) discusses Optimal Leniency Programs in Antitrust. ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the incentive structure underlying the adoption of leniency programs in antitrust enforcement...

Economics of Open Source: A Dynamic Approach

Posted on November 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeongmeen Suh (KIEP) and Murat Yilmaz (Bogaziçi University) describe the Economics of Open Source: A Dynamic Approach. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes open innovation projects and their e¤ects on incentives for innova- tion. We model basic...

Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry

Posted on November 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Junichi Suzuki has posted Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the anticompetitive effects of land use regulation using microdata on mid-scale chain hotels...

Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for Offline vs. Online Media

Posted on November 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dirk Bergemann (Yale - Econ) and Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School) address Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for Offline vs. Online Media. ABSTRACT:We develop a model with many advertisers (products) and many advertising markets (media)...

Boletin Latinoamericano de Competencia Issue 27 is Out

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol BOLETIN LATINOAMERICANO DE COMPETENCIA ARGENTINA TEST CONSTITUCIONAL DEL PROGRAMA DE CLEMENCIA: NEMO TENETUR Por Luis D. Barry EL PODER JUDICIAL Y LA LEY 25.156: CONFLICTOS DE JURISDICCION Y FALTA DE COMPRENSIÓN A UNA DÉCADA DE...

Pricing, Advertising, and Market Structure with Frictions

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Research School of Economics Australian National University, Benoit Julien, School of Economics & CAMA University of New South Wales and Chengsi Wang, School of Economics University of New South Wales address Pricing, Advertising,...

Price Increasing Competition? Experimental Evidence

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cary Deck (Department of Economics, University of Arkansas) and Jingping Gu (Department of Economics, University of Arkansas) provide interesting findings on Price Increasing Competition? Experimental Evidence. ABSTRACT: Economic intuition suggests that increased competition generates lower...

Antitrust Market Definition and Taxes

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We can be sure about two things - death and taxes. It turns out that taxes come up, even in the antitrust context. Fernando H. Navajas, Fundacion de Investigaciones Economicas Latinoamericanas (FIEL), Universidad Nacional de...

The 2010 Merger Guidelines and the ?Litigation Mulligan?: Better Economics but Not (Necessarily) More Clarity Before the Agencies and the Courts

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hill Wellford & Gregory Wells (Bingham McCutchen) explain The 2010 Merger Guidelines and the ?Litigation Mulligan?: Better Economics but Not (Necessarily) More Clarity Before the Agencies and the Courts. ABSTRACT: The new Horizontal Merger Guidelines,...

CRA Annual Conference: Economic developments in European competition policy Wednesday 8 December 2010

Posted on November 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CRA Annual Conference Economic developments in European competition policy Wednesday 8 December 2010 Conrad Hotel, Brussels Download Full_Programme_-_CRA_Annual_Brussels_Conference_-_8_December_2010[1] Confirmed speakers Alexander Italianer, Director General, DG Competition Prof Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Prof...

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