Corporate & Securities Law

Gerber Responds to Blog Symposium on Global Competition: Law, Markets and Globalization

Posted on September 23, 2010
[Editor's Note: In August 2010 we held a blog symposium on the excellent book Global Competition: Law, Markets and Globalization (Oxford University Press 2010) by David Gerber. We assembled a group of scholars from around the world to discuss to...

Motor Vehicle Restraints Block Exemption Regulation 2010

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation Conference 2011 Discuss the impact of the new rules on the supply chain in the automotive industry This conference has been arranged to discuss the Commission?s policy for the future....

Knowing Versus Telling Private Information About a Rival

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Bagnoli and Susan G. Watts (both Purdue School of Management) explain Knowing Versus Telling Private Information About a Rival. ABSTRACT: As part of a broad competitive intelligence strategy, firms expect to acquire information about...

Internationalization in Grocery Retail: Much Ado About Not Very Much

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marcel Corstjens, INSEAD - Marketing and Rajiv Lal, Harvard Business School have posted Internationalization in Grocery Retail: Much Ado About Not Very Much. ABSTRACT: We find that internationalization in the grocery sector has steeply increased...

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Banking Competition, Monitoring Incentives and Financial Stability

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vo Thi Quynh Anhy, Central Bank of Norway explores Banking Competition, Monitoring Incentives and Financial Stability. ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both...

International Cooperation: Preparing for the Future

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christine Varney's talk International Cooperation: Preparing for the Future from Monday's Georgetown antitrust conference is now on the web.

Aftermarket Theories in Competition Law and an Empirical Analysis of Regulation on Motor Vehicles

Posted on September 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sahin Ardiyok, Bilgi University Law School offers Aftermarket Theories in Competition Law and an Empirical Analysis of Regulation on Motor Vehicles. ABSTRACT: One of the major assumptions of the perfectly competitive market is the availability...

Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation in the Internet Age 2010

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation in the Internet Age 2010 A New Hope for the New Economy? Monday 24th January 2011, Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium Meet our chairman: Oliver Bretz, Partner, Clifford Chance, UK Meet...

Competition and Mergers Among Nonprofits

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jens Prufer, TILEC and CentER, Department of Economics, Tilburg University addresses Competition and Mergers Among Nonprofits. ABSTRACT: Should mergers among nonprofit organizations be assessed differently than mergers among for-profit firms? A recent debate in law...

TACTICS AND STIGLER FLEXIBILITY. PART I: linear differential model for a single-product firm

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Francesco Dell'Isola (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Laboratorio Strutture e Materiali Intelligenti - Fondazione Tullio Levi-Civita - Cisterna di Latina) describe TACTICS AND STIGLER FLEXIBILITY...

FTC, Fordham Law School To Hold Panel on New Horizontal Merger Guidelines and International Convergence on September 22

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to the FTC Press Release: The Federal Trade Commission and Fordham Law School will co-sponsor a panel discussion on September 22, 2010, on the recently revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines and their role in promoting...

Leegin, the Rule of Reason, and Vertical Agreement

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) has authored Leegin, the Rule of Reason, and Vertical Agreement. ABSTRACT: The Supreme Court?s Leegin decision overturned the longstanding rule of per se illegality for resale price maintenance and applied a...

Competition Law And Economics: Advances in Competition Policy Enforcement in the EU and North America

Posted on September 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Abel M. Mateus, (Professor of Economics, New University of Lisbon) and Teresa Moreira (Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal) have edited Competition Law And Economics: Advances in Competition Policy Enforcement in the EU and...

The Decision of the Commission of 13 May 2009 in the Intel Case: Where is the Foreclosure and Consumer Harm?

Posted on September 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Damien Geradin, Howrey LLP, Tilburg University - Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) asks The Decision of the Commission of 13 May 2009 in the Intel Case: Where is the Foreclosure and Consumer Harm? ABSTRACT:...

Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control 2011

Posted on September 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Global Competition Review is pleased to announce the publication of Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control 2011. This fully revised and updated 15th edition is fact checked by leading competition agencies and offers the reader...

Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation

Posted on September 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Tech Econ) has edited Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation. BOOK ABSTRACT: In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeconomic benefits of regulations against their costs...

Democracy and Consumer Strength: Direct Evidence from Regulatory Reform in Developing Countries

Posted on September 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen J. Weymouth, Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business discusses Democracy and Consumer Strength: Direct Evidence from Regulatory Reform in Developing Countries. ABSTRACT: The distributional implications of antitrust regulation imply a political...

Organized Business, Affiliated Labor, and Competition Policy Reform in Developing Democracies

Posted on September 21, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen J. Weymouth, Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business has posted Organized Business, Affiliated Labor, and Competition Policy Reform in Developing Democracies. ABSTRACT: One of the enduring lessons of the global financial...

Entry and Incumbent Innovation

Posted on September 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philipp Weinscheink (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn) has written on Entry and Incumbent Innovation. ABSTRACT: We explore how the threat of entry influences the innovation activity of an incumbent...

Myths and Untold Stories - Private Antitrust Enforcement in Germany

Posted on September 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sebastian Peyer, University of East Anglia - Centre for Competition Policy has a very interesting paper on Myths and Untold Stories - Private Antitrust Enforcement in Germany. I highly recommend this paper. ABSTRACT: The paper...

Proving Common Impact in Antitrust Class Actions: Current Legal and Economic Thinking

Posted on September 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Proving Common Impact in Antitrust Class Actions: Current Legal and Economic Thinking October 20, 2010 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EDT) Four Seasons Hotel New York 57 E. 57th Street, New York, NY With issues...

?Assessing market dominance?: a comment and an extension

Posted on September 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vasilis Droucopoulos (University of Athens) and Panagiotis Chronis (Bank of Greece) discuss ?Assessing market dominance?: a comment and an extension. ABSTRACT: Melnik et al. [Melnik, A., Shy, Oz, Stenbacka, R., 2008. Assessing market dominance...

The Impact of Firm Entry Regulation on Long-living Entrants

Posted on September 20, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Susanne Prantl (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn) analyzes The Impact of Firm Entry Regulation on Long-living Entrants. ABSTRACT: What is the impact of firm entry regulation on sustained entry into self-employment?...

Fordham 37th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy

Posted on September 19, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 37th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy: Thursday & Friday, September 23 & 24, 2010. The conference will be held at McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Law School, located at 140 West 62nd Street, New...

Consumer Loss Aversion and the Intensity of Competition

Posted on September 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Heiko Karle (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim) address Consumer Loss Aversion and the Intensity of Competition. ABSTRACT: Consider a differentiated product market in which all consumers are fully informed about...

Google is Bad - Just Ask Rick Rule (and Microsoft)

Posted on September 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rick Rule of Cadwalader has an op-ed against Google in today's Wall Street Journal. He states: Again like Microsoft, Google claims its antitrust problems are the result of a cabal of disgruntled competitors. And it...

Private Competition Litigation in Canada

Posted on September 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Davit Akman, Adam Fanaki, & Mark Katz (Davies Ward) discuss Private Competition Litigation in Canada. ABSTRACT: Private competition litigation, particularly class action litigation, is an area of growing importance in Canada...

Competition Law in a Global Context Lecture: Competition Law and Policy in Latin America

Posted on September 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol You are invited to a Centre for Law and Economics (Competition, Regulation and Public Policy Section), Competition Law in a Global Context Lecture: Competition Law and Policy in Latin America On Thursday 23 September from...

Resale Price Maintenance: Consignment Agreements, Copyrighted or Patented Products and the First Sale Doctrine

Posted on September 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) has posted Resale Price Maintenance: Consignment Agreements, Copyrighted or Patented Products and the First Sale Doctrine. ABSTRACT: The rule of reason adopted for resale price maintenance in the Supreme Court?s Leegin...

OFT and CC publish joint merger guidelines

Posted on September 16, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UK's OFT and CC have published joint merger guidelines.

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