Corporate & Securities Law

The EC Commission's Draft Horizontal Guidelines: Presumed Guilty when Having a Chat

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter D. Camesasca, Anna K. Schmidt, and Michael J. Clancy (all Covington) provide their thoughts on The EC Commission's Draft Horizontal Guidelines: Presumed Guilty when Having a Chat. ABSTRACT: In the draft guidelines for horizontal...

Undistorted, (Un)fair Competition, Consumer Welfare and the Interpretation of Article 102 TFEU

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anca Daniela Chirita has posted Undistorted, (Un)fair Competition, Consumer Welfare and the Interpretation of Article 102 TFEU. ABSTRACT: This article explains the Lisbon Treaty?s provisions relating to competition policy and offers a dynamic interpretation of...

Antitrust and Judaism - Are Rabbi Searches Anti-competitive?

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Barak Richman (Duke Law) is spending his sabbatical year on one of the most difficult issues involving any Jewish organization - selecting a Rabbi. He has a very interesting op-ed in the Forward that asks...

The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thom Lambert (Missouri Law) describes The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Antitrust is back in vogue at the U.S. Supreme Court. Whereas the Rehnquist Court decided few antitrust cases in its latter...

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Comment on the Proposed Update on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Accounting for Out-of-Market Efficiencies

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright (George Mason Law) provides a Comment on the Proposed Update on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Accounting for Out-of-Market Efficiencies. ABSTRACT: The market definition analysis endorsed by the 2010 Proposed Horizontal Merger Guidelines (?new...

New Neutrality and Consumer Welfare

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gary S. Becker (Chicago - Econ), Dennis W. Carlton (Chicago Booth School of Business), and Hal S. Sider (Compass Lexecon) have a new paper on New Neutrality and Consumer Welfare ABSTRACT: The Federal Communications Commission's...

GCR's Antitrust Litigation 2010 conference, 12 October, London

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The past year has seen an increase in private antitrust litigation across Europe, with claimants focusing particularly on London and the German courts. Most private actions for damages settle and not infrequently defendants face claims...

Call for Papers: Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) in cooperation with King?s College London will hold its 6th Conference in London on 1 and 2 July 2011 on the topic of New Competition Jurisdictions: Shaping Policies and Building Institution

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CALL FOR PAPERS The Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) in cooperation with King?s College London will hold its 6th Conference in London on 1 and 2 July 2011 on the topic of ?New Competition...

Phasing Out Sector-Specific Regulation in European Telecommunications

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Günter Knieps (University of Freiburg) and Patrick Zenhäusern (Plaut Economics) discuss Phasing Out Sector-Specific Regulation in European Telecommunications. ABSTRACT: The European Commission Recommendation 2007/879/EC has become known as an important innovation towards phasing out sector-specific...

Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Knowledge

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sean M. Flynn, Washington College of Law, American University addresses Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Knowledge. ABSTRACT: One of the points of convergence among the many strands of the A2K movement is resistance...

Federal Trade Commission and Northwestern University Microeconomics Conference, November 18-19, 2010

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Details are available here. Thursday, November 18 8:30 a.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:15 a.m. Keynote Address Roman Inderst, University of Frankfurt 9:45 a.m. Panel Session One: Disclosures and Informed Consumer Choice...

TELEVISION MERGERS AND DIVERSITY IN SMALL MARKETS

Posted on September 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthew L. Spitzer, USC Law explains TELEVISION MERGERS AND DIVERSITY IN SMALL MARKETS. ABSTRACT: ?Diversity of the airwaves??making sure that viewers have a varied mix of ideas and information available in the relevant media market?remains...

An Analytical Model of a Vertically Separated Railway Market

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Markus Lang (Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich), Marc Laperrouza (Management of Network Industries, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)), and Matthias Finger (Management of Network Industries, Swiss Federal Institute of...

Is Jon Leibowitz Making the Grade? A Year at the FTC

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jon Leibowitz (FTC) has posted his speech from ther Georgetwon Fourth Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium on Making the Grade? A Year at the FTC.

Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zurich), Susan J. Mendez (University of Zurich), and Thomas Rønde (Copenhagen Business School) address Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark. ABSTRACT: On April 1, 2005,...

Transparency and Coordinated Effects in European Merger Control

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Svend Albæk (University of Copenhagen), Per Baltzer Overgaard (University of Aarhus) and Peter Møllgaard (Copenhagen Business School) describe Transparency and Coordinated Effects in European Merger Control. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we first outline the foundations...

Making a Market out of a Mole Hill? Geographic Market Definition in Aspen Skiing

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeffrey T. Macher and John W. Mayo (both Georgetown - McDonough School of Business) explore Making a Market out of a Mole Hill? Geographic Market Definition in Aspen Skiing. ABSTRACT: Because firm conduct in Aspen...

Confronting Change in a New Healthcare Economy: Patents, Antitrust and the Workplace

Posted on September 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol IU-Indianapolis Law School will have a CLE program on Confronting Change in a New Healthcare Economy: Patents, Antitrust and the Workplace on October 12, 2010.See the law school's website for a complete agenda and online...

Settlement Agreements and Patent Abuse in the Pharmaceutical Sector: An EU/US Comparison - 2010 Conference

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The pharmaceutical sector continues to be one of the main focus areas for competition authorities throughout the world. This conference provides an update on the major developments affecting the sector including the General Court's recent...

Do the Gators Rule Florida?

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol So asks one of my daughters this morning. My wife and I both looked at each other rather puzzled since neither of us particularly care for college football. It seems as if the football indoctrination...

The Impact of the Draft EC Horizontal Guidelines on Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard Taffet (Bingham) discusses The Impact of the Draft EC Horizontal Guidelines on Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation. The European Commission's Draft Guidelines on the Application of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning...

Resale Price Maintenance by Japanese Newspapers

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Flath (Osaka University) addresses Resale Price Maintenance by Japanese Newspapers. ABSTRACT: In Japan, newspapers enjoy a special exemption from antimonopoly prohibitionsagainst resale price maintenance (suppliers? stipulations that bar downstreamfirms from price discounting), but are...

The Economics of Number Portability: Switching Costs and Two-Part Tariffs

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Reiko Aoki and John Small explain The Economics of Number Portability: Switching Costs and Two-Part Tariffs. ABSTRACT: This paper interprets number portability as a reduction of switching costs in a model of competition between telephone...

Every Viewer has a Price - On the Differentiation of TV Channels

Posted on September 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonas Häckner (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University) and Sten Nyberg (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University) explain Every Viewer has a Price - On the Differentiation of TV Channels. ABSTRACT: This study has three main objectives...

EU Competition Law An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases - Second Edition

Posted on September 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford Law) has just published EU Competition Law An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases - Second Edition. BOOK ABSTRACT: This book is designed as a working tool for the study and practice...

GCR's 2010 Competition Law Review, 16 & 17 November, Brussels

Posted on September 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol GCR's 2010 Competition Law Review, 16 & 17 November, Brussels A unique opportunity to hear some of the most influential speakers debate and analyse the key developments in competition law. The aim of this conference...

The EC Commission's Review of the EU Competition Rules on Horizontal Agreements

Posted on September 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Lugard (Royal Philips Electronics, Tilburg Law & Economics Centre) discusses The EC Commission's Review of the EU Competition Rules on Horizontal Agreements. ABSTRACT: It is no wonder that the revisions of the block exemption...

Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations

Posted on September 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Gartner (St. Galen - Econ) and Stefan Buehler (Zurich - Econ) are for Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations. ABSTRACT: We model non-binding retail-price recommendations (RPRs) as a communication device facilitating coordination in vertical...

Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets

Posted on September 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, and Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard Medical School discuss Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets. ABSTRACT: In this survey chapter on pricing...

Dynamic Entry with Cross Product Spillovers: An Application to the Generic Drug Industry

Posted on September 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A. Ronald Gallant, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Economics Group, New York University - Department of Economics, Han Hong, Duke University - Department of Economics, and Ahmed Khwaja, Duke University - Fuqua School...

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