Corporate & Securities Law

Leniency Programs in the Presence of Judicial Errors

Posted on September 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nahom Ghebrihiwet and Evgenia Motchenkova, VU University Amsterdam - Department of Economics, TILEC discuss Leniency Programs in the Presence of Judicial Errors. ABSTRACT: We analyze the effects of antitrust and leniency programs in a repeated...

Shana Tova to the Antitrust Community

Posted on September 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today is the first day of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. I want to wish members of the antitrust community around the world a sweet new year full of great joy, success and spiritual...

Bundling Among Rivals: A Case of Pharmaceutical Cocktails

Posted on September 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University), Sean Nicholson (Cornell University) and Minjae Song (University of Rochester) have a paper on Bundling Among Rivals: A Case of Pharmaceutical Cocktails. ABSTRACT: We empirically analyze the welfare effects of cross-firm...

Enforcing European Competition Law - Harmonizing Private and Public Approaches in a More Differentiated Enforcement Model

Posted on September 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jörg Philipp Terhechte, University of Hamburg explains Enforcing European Competition Law - Harmonizing Private and Public Approaches in a More Differentiated Enforcement Model. ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the relevance of the new hybrid enforcement...

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A Dynamic Analysis of Resale Price Maintenance: Inefficient Brand Promotion, Higher Margins, Distorted Choices, and Retarded Retailer Innovation

Posted on September 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Warren S. Grimes, Southwestern Law School addresses A Dynamic Analysis of Resale Price Maintenance: Inefficient Brand Promotion, Higher Margins, Distorted Choices, and Retarded Retailer Innovation. ABSTRACT: This article responds to Professor Benjamin Klein?s recently published...

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeeze Claim: A High Point for Divergence between US and European Law?

Posted on September 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Warren S. Grimes, Southwestern Law School asks U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeeze Claim: A High Point for Divergence between US and European Law? ABSTRACT: The US Supreme Court?s decision in Pacific Bell Telephone Co.....

Excessive Pricing, Entry, Assessment, and Investment: Lessons from the Mittal Litigation

Posted on September 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Gilo, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Ariel Ezrachi, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law discuss Excessive Pricing, Entry, Assessment, and Investment: Lessons from the Mittal Litigation. ABSTRACT: The role...

6th Seoul International Competition Forum

Posted on September 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The 6th Seoul International Competition Forum Seoul, 15th September 2010 I. Overview The Seoul International Competition Forum (SICF), held biennially since 2002, aims to help advance Korea?s competition law and policy, establish the culture of...

Distance Selling, Internet and Price Dynamics

Posted on September 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philippe Askenazy, Paris School of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Claire Celerier, Banque de France; University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics, and Delphine Irac, Banque de France discuss Distance...

Deposit Market Competition, Wholesale Funding, and Bank Risk

Posted on September 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ben R. Craig (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Deutsche Bundesbank) and Valeriya Dinger (University of Bonn) address Deposit Market Competition, Wholesale Funding, and Bank Risk. Abstract: In this paper we revisit the long debate...

Pricing Payment Cards

Posted on September 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT European School of Management and Technology) and Emilio Calvano (Bocconi University) address Pricing Payment Cards. ABSTRACT: Payment card networks, such as Visa, require merchants' banks to pay substantial "interchange" fees to cardholders'...

Competition, Efficiency, and Soundness in Banking: An Industrial Organization Perspective

Posted on September 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Klaus Schaeck (Bangor Business School) and Martin Cihák (IMF) explore Competition, Efficiency, and Soundness in Banking: An Industrial Organization Perspective. ABSTRACT: How can competition enhance bank soundness? Does competition improve soundness via the efficiency channel?...

Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents

Posted on September 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago - Law School and F. Scott Kieff, George Washington University - Law School are Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents. ABSTRACT: Many advocates for...

Antitrust Formalism is Dead! Long Live Antitrust Formalism!: Some Implications of American Needle v. NFL

Posted on September 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Judd E. Stone II (International Center for Law and Economics) and Joshua D. Wright (George Mason Law) have written on Antitrust Formalism is Dead! Long Live Antitrust Formalism!: Some Implications of American Needle v. NFL.....

The CREA Abuse of Dominance Case: Competition Bureau Challenges Organized Real Estate in Canada

Posted on September 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steve Szentesi (Norton Stewart) explains The CREA Abuse of Dominance Case: Competition Bureau Challenges Organized Real Estate in Canada. ABSTRACT: On February 8, 2010, the Canadian Competition Bureau (the "Bureau") filed an abuse of dominance...

International Cooperation in a New Era of Canadian Cartel Enforcement

Posted on September 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lindsay Donders (Canadian Competition Bureau) has posted International Cooperation in a New Era of Canadian Cartel Enforcement. ABSTRACT: In today's globalized economy, it is essential that competition enforcement transcend national boundaries to protect the benefits...

Texas Investigating Google for Anticompetitive Conduct

Posted on September 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Texas AG is investigating Google. See here for the story.

Competition and Innovation: Pushing Productivity Up or Down?

Posted on September 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Erik Brouwer and Henry van der Wiel (both Tilburg University) ask about Competition and Innovation: Pushing Productivity Up or Down? ABSTRACT: This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands...

Low quality as a signal of high quality

Posted on September 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthew Clements (St. Edward's University) explains Low quality as a signal of high quality. If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a...

Analyzing the Effects of Temporary Antitrust Immunity: The Aloha?Hawaiian Immunity Agreement

Posted on September 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rene Y. Kamita has an interesting paper on Analyzing the Effects of Temporary Antitrust Immunity: The Aloha?Hawaiian Immunity Agreement. ABSTRACT: While several studies have examined the effects of cartels, in few instances are data available...

Attention Professors

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the new academic year upon us, this is a reminder for anyone teaching antitrust/competition law or economics to recommend this blog to their students as a daily read to see the latest in scholarship...

Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: The Regulation of Innovation

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol UCL is pleased to announce CPD course starting on 8 October on Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: The Regulation of Innovation About this course: The course illustrates the connections among innovation policy, competition law...

The Convergence of Broadcasting and Telephony: Legal and Regulatory Implications

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Yoo (Penn law) has posted on The Convergence of Broadcasting and Telephony: Legal and Regulatory Implications. ABSTRACT: This article, written for the inaugural issue of a new journal, analyzes the extent to which the...

Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ola Andersson (Stockholm School of Economics), Cédric Argenton (CentER & TILEC, Tilburg University), Jörgen W. Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics and Ecole Polytechnique) explain Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty.ABSTRACT: We model a player's uncertainty about other...

The 6th Seoul International Competition Forum and the 6th East Asia Top Level Officials' Meeting on Competition Policy

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The 6th Seoul International Competition Forum and the 6th East Asia Top Level Officials' Meeting on Competition Policy Agenda The 6th Seoul International Competition Forum Wednesday, 15 September 2010 09:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony Opening...

Social rights and economic objectives: The importance of competition at supra national level

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marianne Ojo, University of Bremen, has written on Social rights and economic objectives: The importance of competition at supra national level. ABSTRACT: The need for a supra national model which embraces and provides for social...

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

Posted on September 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephan Weymouth (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) and the Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego) discusses Democracy and Consumer Strength: Direct Evidence from Regulatory Reform in Developing Countries...

Regulating Dynamic Markets: Progress in Theory and Practice

Posted on September 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Lewis Evans (Victoria University of Wellington - Econ) and Robert Hahn (University of Manchester - Econ) discuss Regulating Dynamic Markets: Progress in Theory and Practice. ABSTRACT: A key question facing regulators is how to create...

Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services

Posted on September 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter Cramton (University of Maryland), Evan Kwerel (FCC), Gregory Rosston (Stanford), and Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford) advocate Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services. ABSTRACT: Spectrum auctions are used by governments to assign and...

Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation?

Posted on September 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Yoo (Penn Law) asks about Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation? ABSTRACT: Over the past two decades, the Internet has undergone an extensive re-ordering of its topology that has resulted in increased variation in the...

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