Corporate & Securities Law

Screens for Conspiracies and Their Multiple Applications

Posted on November 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rosa Abrantes-Metz (LECG) & Patrick Bajari (Univ. of Minnesota) describes Screens for Conspiracies and Their Multiple Applications. ABSTRACT: A screen is a statistical test designed to detect conspiracies aimed at illegally manipulating a market...

Call for Papers: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND STANFORD LAW SCHOOL FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM

Posted on November 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND STANFORD LAW SCHOOL FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM CALL FOR PAPERS Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School have established an International Junior Faculty Forum. The idea behind this is...

The Economics of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights

Posted on November 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mariateresa Maggiolino, Bocconi University - Department of Law takes on the weighty topic of The Economics of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights. ABSTRACT: Economics studies the market conduct of agents, such as individuals, firms, and...

Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Porject is Receiving Applications for the Summer of 2011 Fellowships

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Section of Antitrust Law sponsors a summer fellowship program, named the Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project, honoring the memory of the late Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Each of the 20 selected students...

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Essential Facility Doctrine in Brazilian Telecommunications Sector

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol José Antonio Batista de Moura Ziebarth, CADE and Gabriel Nascimento Pinto, University of Sao Paulo - Law and CADE describe Essential Facility Doctrine in Brazilian Telecommunications Sector. ABSTRACT: The telecommunications system went through a huge...

Do Merger Guidelines Revise or Describe Policy: The Case of the 1997 Efficiency Revision

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Malcolm B. Coate (FTC) has an interesting new paper that asks Do Merger Guidelines Revise or Describe Policy: The Case of the 1997 Efficiency Revision. ABSTRACT: The 1997 Merger Guidelines appeared to significantly expand the...

Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Casrl Shapiro (Berkeley Hass School of Business and DOJ) discusses Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties. ABSTRACT: A simple model is developed to study royalty negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm whose product...

Duopoly in the Japanese Airline Market: Bayesian Estimation for the Entry Game

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Shinya Sugawara (Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Omori (Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo) explore Duopoly in the Japanese Airline Market: Bayesian Estimation for the Entry Game. ABSTRACT: This paper provides...

Competition and Productivity: Evidence from the Post WWII U.S. Cement Industry

Posted on November 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Timothy Dunne (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Shawn Klimek (U.S. Census Bureau) and James Schmitz, Jr. (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) describe Competition and Productivity: Evidence from the Post WWII U.S. Cement Industry...

Multi-market competition, R&D, and welfare in oligopoly

Posted on November 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Akio Kawasaki, Ming Hsin Lin, and Noriaki Matsushima (all The Institute of Social and Economic Research Osaka University) explain Multi-market competition, R&D, and welfare in oligopoly. ABSTRACT: We investigate a multi-market Cournot model with strategic...

FOUR YEARS AS THE CHIEF COMPETITION ECONOMIST ? AN OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE

Posted on November 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol THIRD EVENING POLICY TALK DAMIEN NEVEN, CHIEF COMPETITION ECONOMIST, DG COMPETITION FOUR YEARS AS THE CHIEF COMPETITION ECONOMIST ? AN OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE 23 November 2010 ? Marriott Hotel, 3-7 Rue August...

A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets

Posted on November 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Helmut Dietl (Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich), Tobias Duschl (Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich), Egon Franck (Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich), and Markus...

Rockets and Feathers in the Laboratory

Posted on November 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ralph-C Bayer (School of Economics, University of Adelaide) and Changxia Ke (Max Planck Institute) describe Rockets and Feathers in the Laboratory. ABSTRACT: Consumers often complain that retail prices respond faster to increases in wholesale prices...

Pandora's Box Opened: The New Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on November 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gary Zanfagna (Honeywell) addresses Pandora's Box Opened: The New Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Evidence on Food Retailing in France

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Céline Bonnet and Pierre Dubois (both Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ, INRA)) explain Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Evidence on Food Retailing in France...

Oligopolistic Price Competition with Informed and Uninformed Buyers

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Ostatnicky (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, and the Economics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) analyzes Oligopolistic Price Competition with Informed and Uninformed Buyers...

Regulatory Reform and Competition: How to Push the Agenda Forward. A European Perspective

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler, Government of the Italian Republic (Italy) - Advanced School of Public has a new paper on Regulatory Reform and Competition: How to Push the Agenda Forward, A European Perspective. ABSTRACT: In recent decades,...

Market Oversight Games

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics) describes Market Oversight Games. ABSTRACT: Big business plays cat & mouse with market regulators. Market participants try to avoid the competitive pressures...

Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alexander White (Department of Economics, Harvard University) and E. Glen Weyl (Harvard University Society of Fellows; Toulouse School of Economics) discuss Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework. ABSTRACT: We propose a general model of imperfect...

Including Exclusion in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines

Posted on November 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol D. Bruce Hoffman and Daniel Francis (both Hunton & Williams) describe Including Exclusion in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Of Omissions and Commissions: India's Competition Laws

Posted on November 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aditya Bhattacharjea (Delhi School of Economics) provides his thoughts on Of Omissions and Commissions: India's Competition Laws. ABSTRACT: In 2009, India repealed its 40 year old Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Act, and brought...

Do Islamic Banks Have Greater Market Power?

Posted on November 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Laurent Weill (University of Strasbourg and EM Strasbourg Business School) asks Do Islamic Banks Have Greater Market Power? ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether Islamic banks have greater market power than...

Acquisitions as a Response to Deregulation: Evidence from the Cable Television Industry

Posted on November 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Byrne (University of Melbourne) discusses Acquisitions as a Response to Deregulation: Evidence from the Cable Television Industry. ABSTRACT: This paper studies the dynamics of an industry that is subject to exclusive geographical licensing...

Market Regulation and Competition; Law in Conflict: A View from Ireland, Implications of the Panda Judgment

Posted on November 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philip Andrews (McCann FitzGeraldMcCann FitzGerald) and Paul K Gorecki (Economic and Social Research Institute) address Market Regulation and Competition; Law in Conflict: A View from Ireland, Implications of the Panda Judgment...

Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Timothy Keller (Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego), David Miller (Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego), and Xiahua (Anny) Wei (Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego) describe Price Wars...

Where Politics Creates Restrainsts on Trade - Canadian Government Decides That Potash Bid Unacceptable Under ?Net Benefit? Test

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol When the industry ministry rather than the Competition Bureau decides on the merits of a proposed merger (BHP's bid for Potash), you might suspect that politics might trump competition. Welcome to Canada, which has blocked...

Exclusive Content and the Next Generation Networks

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Juan José Ganuza, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics and explain María Fernanda Viecens, FEDEA explain Exclusive Content and the Next Generation Networks. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the interaction between the market of premium contents...

The Effect of Regulating Interchange Fees at Cost on the ATM Market

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jocelyn Donze (Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ)) and Isabelle Dubec (Toulouse School of Economics (GREMAQ)) discuss The Effect of Regulating Interchange Fees at Cost on the ATM Market. ABSTRACT:We show that regulating interchange fees at...

Cartels and Corporate Compliance

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Centre for Law and Economics (Competition, Regulation and Public Policy Section) invited you to a Competition Law in a Global Context Lecture: CARTELS AND CORPORATE COMPLIANCE by Professor Daniel Sokol (University of Florida...

Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Posted on November 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jan Kraemer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Information Systems and Management) and Lukas Wiewiorra (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Information Systems and Management) address Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for...

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