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About Cartel Overcharges: Kroes is Correct

Posted on July 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John M. Connor, Purdue University - Applied Econ suggests that About Cartel Overcharges: Kroes is Correct. ABSTRACT: An article by Ehmer and Rosati (ER) in expresses dissatisfaction with a view expressed in a speech by...

Merger Performance and Efficiencies in Horizontal Merger Policy in the US and the EU

Posted on July 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol S. P. Kamerbeek, University of Utrecht - Faculty of Law explains Merger Performance and Efficiencies in Horizontal Merger Policy in the US and the EU. ABSTRACT: In current horizontal merger policy in the US and...

European Competition Law & Control of Energy Market Restructuring

Posted on July 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael D. Diathesopoulos, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, University of Glasgow - School of Law, University of Leicester - Faculty of Law, Lancaster University - Law School explores European Competition Law & Control...

Welcome AntitrustConnect Blog

Posted on July 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolrers Kluwer/Aspen has brought out its big guns -- its treatise writers -- to form a new antitrust blog, the AntitrustConnect Blog.

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FTC Funded For Fiscal Year 2011

Posted on July 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol BNA reports that the "Senate Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on July 27 approved a FY 2011 spending bill that includes $314 million for the Federal Trade Commission."

Supermarket and Gasoline: An Empirical Study of Bundled Discount

Posted on July 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Zhongmin Wang, Northeastern University has posted Supermarket and Gasoline: An Empirical Study of Bundled Discount. ABSTRACT: Bundled discount is a widely used business practice and has been the key issue of prominent antitrust cases, yet...

Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D

Posted on July 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Martin Woerter, ETH Zurich, Swiss Economic Institute (KOF), Christian Rammer, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) - Industrial Economics and International Management Research, and Spyros Arvanitis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) - Swiss...

The Influence of Collusion on Price Changes: New Evidence from Major Cartel Cases

Posted on July 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Alexander Geist, and Konstantin A. Kholodilin, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) explain The Influence of Collusion on Price Changes: New Evidence from Major Cartel Cases. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we...

Comparison of Merger Impact on the Profitability Measures of EU Domestic & Cross Border Bank Acquirers

Posted on July 29, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthias Nnadi, Coventry University and Sailesh Tanna, Coventry University - Department of Economics have anj empirical paper on Comparison of Merger Impact on the Profitability Measures of EU Domestic & Cross Border Bank Acquirers...

Four Questionable Rationales for the Patent Misuse Doctrine

Posted on July 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tom Cotter, University of Minnesota Law School has posted Four Questionable Rationales for the Patent Misuse Doctrine. ABSTRACT: When a patent infringement defendant succeeds in proving that the patent owner has misused its patent, the...

Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? An Analysis of the Recent Market-Based Reforms to the English NHS

Posted on July 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones, and Alistair McGuire ask Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? An Analysis of the Recent Market-Based Reforms to the English NHS. ABSTRACT: This paper uses a difference-in-difference estimator to test...

The Effect of Competition on Trade Patterns: Evidence from the Collapse of International Cartels

Posted on July 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Margaret C. Levenstein, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Survey Research Center, University of Michigan - Ross School of Business, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and Valerie...

A Theory of Quality Competition in Newspaper Joint Operating Agreements

Posted on July 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aaron Cranes and Charles J. Romeo, both Economic Analysis Group US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, provide A Theory of Quality Competition in Newspaper Joint Operating Agreements. ABSTRACT: Newspaper Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs) are long...

An Economic Approach to Abuse of Dominance

Posted on July 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Federico Etro (University of Milan) and Ioannis Kokkoris (University of Reading) offer An Economic Approach to Abuse of Dominance. ABSTRACT: The European debate on abuse of dominance issues in antitrust has been recently characterized by...

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?

Posted on July 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nick Bloom (Stanford Econ), Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School), and John Van Reenen (LSE Econ) ask Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? ABSTRACT: There is a widespread sense that over the last two...

The Firm as Cartel Manager

Posted on July 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp, Iowa Law, explains The Firm as Cartel Manager. ABSTRACT: Historically, Visa and MasterCard were organized as joint ventures whose members were the card issuing financial institutions. After enduring decades of antitrust litigation, however,...

Asymmetric Pass-Through in U.S. Gasoline Prices

Posted on July 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matthew Chesnes, FTC examines Asymmetric Pass-Through in U.S. Gasoline Prices. ABSTRACT: This paper presents new evidence of asymmetric pass-through, the notion that upward cost shocks are passed through faster than downward cost shocks, in U...

EU Investigating IBM

Posted on July 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The WSJ has a story on the EU antitrust inverstigation of IBM. They note that there has been a tech focus to EU investigations. They list a number of important tech companies but omit mention...

Competition Policy and the Transition to a Low-Carbon, Efficient Electricity Industry

Posted on July 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John E. Kwoka, Jr., Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Diana L. Moss, American Antitrust Institute (AAI) explain Competition Policy and the Transition to a Low-Carbon, Efficient Electricity Industry. ABSTRACT: U...

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Posted on July 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicholas Bloom (Stanford - Econ) Carol Propper (Imperial College - Econ), Stephan Seiler (LSE - Econ), and John Van Reenen (LSE - Econ) explore The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals....

The Economics of Payment Card Interchange Fees and the Limits of Regulation

Posted on July 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Todd Zywicki has an interesting piece on The Economics of Payment Card Interchange Fees and the Limits of Regulation. ABSTRACT: Fresh off of the most substantial national liquidity crisis of the last generation and the...

Comparing Monopoly and Duopoly on a Two-Sided Market without Product Differentiation

Posted on July 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Enrico B�hme and Christopher M�ller (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt) explore Comparing Monopoly and Duopoly on a Two-Sided Market without Product Differentiation. ABSTRACT: We propose both a monopoly and a duopoly model of a two-sided market...

Downstream labeling and upstream price competition

Posted on July 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Olivier Bonroy & St�phane Lemarie (both Universit� Grenoble 2) discuss the implications of Downstream labeling and upstream price competition. ABSTRACT: The paper analyses the economic consequences of labeling in a setting with two vertically related...

Antitrust Enforcement in Argentina Under Stricter Judicial Scrutiny

Posted on July 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Juli�n Pe�a, Allende & Brea explains Antitrust Enforcement in Argentina Under Stricter Judicial Scrutiny. ABSTRACT: In the past couple of years, the courts have become increasingly stricter when reviewing decisions taken by the antitrust authorities...

Competition Commission (CC) Publishes its Annual Report and Accounts for 2009/10

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Competition Commission (CC) has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2009/10. See here.

The New Verticals Block Exemption Regulation and Guidelines?Practical Implications

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kyriakos Fountoukakos & Kristien Geeurickx (Herbert Smith) explain The New Verticals Block Exemption Regulation and Guidelines?Practical Implications. ABSTRACT: The new verticals block exemption Regulation and Guidelines came into force on June 1, 2010...

Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Shane Greenstein (Northwestern Kellogg School) and Ryan McDevitt (Northwestern Econ) provide Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the...

New Kids on the Block: Retailer-driven Vertical Practices and the New Regulation of Vertical Restraints in EU Competition Law

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Lianos (University College London) describes New Kids on the Block: Retailer-driven Vertical Practices and the New Regulation of Vertical Restraints in EU Competition Law. ABSTRACT: By integrating more fully the retailer power story, the...

Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in EU Competition Law 2010 - 2011 Distance Learning Programme from King's College London

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in EU Competition Law 2010 - 2011 Distance Learning Programme from King's College London Programme director: Richard Whish, Professor of Law, King's College London Content: An in-depth and up-to-date guide to EU competition...

The New EC Block Exemption for Vertical Restraints: A Step Forward and a Missed Opportunity

Posted on July 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Lugard (TILEC) & Theon van Dijk (Lexonomics) have mixed comments on EU policy in their piece The New EC Block Exemption for Vertical Restraints: A Step Forward and a Missed Opportunity. ABSTRACT: Today, more...

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