Corporate & Securities Law

The Handbook of Competition Economics 2010

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Handbook of Competition Economics 2010 Introduction ForewordFree To View IntroductionFree To View Amelia Fletcher Office of Fair Trading Overviews Merger ControlFree To View Pinar Bagci, Paul Muysert CEG Countries Albania Argentina Armenia Australia Austria...

Second Mover Advantage and Bertrand Dynamic Competition: An Experiment

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol S.N. O'Higgins (University of Salerno), Arturo Palomba (University of Naples II) and Patrizia Sbriglia (University of Naples II) explain Second Mover Advantage and Bertrand Dynamic Competition: An Experiment. ABSTRACT: In this paper we provide an...

Pricing Policy and Partial Collusion

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stefano Colombo (DISCE, Università Cattolica) addresses Pricing Policy and Partial Collusion. ABSTRACT: We study the pricing policy equilibria emerging in a partial collusion duopolistic framework where firms in the first stage of the game choose...

GCR'S ANTITRUST LITIGATION 2010

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A review of developments in private litigation in the UK, Europe and the US 12 October 2010, The King's Fund, London W1 GCR's 2010 Antitrust Litigation conference brings together leading competition and litigation experts from...

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A Dangerous Call to Create Crisis Cartels: Notes to Supreme Court Judgment of January 20, 2010

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Francisco Marcos, Instituto de Empresa Business School discusses A Dangerous Call to Create Crisis Cartels: Notes to Supreme Court Judgment of January 20, 2010. ABSTRACT: Situations of economic crisis do not justify an exemption to...

Energy Market Restructuring and Competition Regulation

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael D. Diathesopoulos University of Athens - Faculty of Law; University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law; University of Glasgow - School of Law; University of Leicester - Faculty of Law has a forthcoming article...

Tacit Collusion in an Infinitely Repeated Prisoners? Dilemma

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. (Johns Hopkins - Econ) and Wei Zhao (Johns Hopkins - Econ) have an interesting new paper on Tacit Collusion in an Infinitely Repeated Prisoners? Dilemma. ABSTRACT: In the context of an...

Europe Targets Google on Competition Abuses

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol It looks like Google may be the latest US based tech company to get the intimate treatment from Brussels competition enforcers. The Wall Street Journal covers this development here.

We Are Number 30

Posted on July 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to this ranking, we are the 30th most trafficked law professor blog.

Entry Threats and Pricing in the Generic Drug Industry

Posted on July 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steven Tenn, Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics and Brett W. Wendling, Federal Trade Commission - Bureau of Economics describe Entry Threats and Pricing in the Generic Drug Industry. ABSTRACT: We provide the first...

?What if Uncle Sam wants you??: Principles and Recent Practice Concerning US Extradition Requests in Cartel Cases

Posted on July 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philipp Girardet (SJ Berwin) asks ?What if Uncle Sam wants you??: Principles and Recent Practice Concerning US Extradition Requests in Cartel Cases. ABSTRACT: Extradition procedings have for a long time formed a cornerstone of international...

Lingering Uncertainty over the Antitrust Approach to Resale Price Maintenance

Posted on July 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eugène Buttigieg (University of Malta - Law) discusses Lingering Uncertainty over the Antitrust Approach to Resale Price Maintenance. ABSTRACT: This article considers the latest developments in the American and EU antitrust approach to fixed and...

Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust

Posted on July 06, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oliver Black, King's College London has written on Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Antitrust is a body of law and policy designed to promote economic competition by regulating monopolistic functions and this book is a...

Innovation in Vertically Related Markets

Posted on July 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics and David E.M. Sappington, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics, write on Innovation in Vertically Related Markets...

Competition Law in Latin America and the Caribbean: Statutory Harmonization and Convergence

Posted on July 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pablo Marquez, University of Oxford, Pontifical University Javeriana writes on Competition Law in Latin America and the Caribbean: Statutory Harmonization and Convergence. ABSTRACT: The general aim of this text is to show how legislatures have...

TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy SSRN eJournal May 5, 2010 to July 4, 2010

Posted on July 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy eJournal May 5, 2010 to July 4, 2010 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1...

AAI 11th Annual Conference Audio and Materials Now Available

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See here.

Google Declared a Monopoly in France by Competition Authority

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See here.

Intentional Price Wars on the Equilibrium Path

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pot Erik, Peeters Ronald, Peters Hans, and Vermeulen Dries (all Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University) analyze Intentional Price Wars on the Equilibrium Path. ABSTRACT: In this paper we study the effect of information on...

Patent licensing, bargaining, and product positioning

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Toshihiro Matsumura (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) and Noriaki Matsushima (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) discuss Patent licensing, bargaining, and product positioning. ABSTRACT: Innovators who have developed advanced technologies, along...

Draft Hong Kong Antitrust Bill Now Available

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See here.

Market Competition, R&D and Firm Profits in Asymmetric Oligopoly

Posted on July 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Junichiro Ishida (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University), Toshihiro Matsumura (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo), and Noriaki Matsushima (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) explain Market Competition, R&D and...

Antitrust & the Bowl Championship Series

Posted on July 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nathaniel Grow, University of Georgia - Department of Insurance, Legal Studies, Real Estate explores Antitrust & the Bowl Championship Series. ABSTRACT: This Article analyzes the potential antitrust liability of the Bowl Championship Series (?BCS?), college...

Vertical bargaining and countervailing power

Posted on July 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Iozzi (Faculty of Economics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata") and Tommaso Valletti (Faculty of Economics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata") describe Vertical bargaining and countervailing power. ABSTRACT: We study the existence of countervailing buyer...

Loyalty Rewards and Monopoly Pricing

Posted on July 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philipp Ackermann, Department of Economics, University of Bern has a new paper on Loyalty Rewards and Monopoly Pricing. ABSTRACT: This article examines the impact of customer reward programs on the competitive outcome in duopolistic markets...

GCR's conference to mark the 20th anniversary of EU Merger Regulation, 28-29 September 2010

Posted on July 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Global Competition Review takes great pleasure in announcing a major international conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the EU Merger Regulation to be held in Brussels. Following the opening...

Demand-Enhancing Investment in Mixed Duopoly

Posted on July 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stefan Bühler (Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law - University of St. Gallen) and Simon Wey (University of Zurich) discuss Demand-Enhancing Investment in Mixed Duopoly. ABSTRACT: This paper examines demand-enhancing investment and pricing in...

Private Litigation in England and Wales

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Renato Nazzini (University of Southampton) writes on Private Litigation in England and Wales. ABSTRACT: The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of developments of private enforcement of competition law. However, as I discussed in...

Advance notice of Request for Offers for African Competition Forum (ACF) Coordinator assignment

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol IDRC ? International Development Research Centre Advance notice of Request for Offers for African Competition Forum (ACF) Coordinator assignment. The newly formed African Competition Forum (ACF), whose primary members are Competition Authorities from African countries,...

Antitrust Forum-Shopping in England: Is Provimi Ltd v Aventis Correct?

Posted on June 30, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Brian Kennelly (Blackstone Chambers) asks Antitrust Forum-Shopping in England: Is Provimi Ltd v Aventis Correct? ABSTRACT: This article examines the judgment of Aikens J in Provimi Ltd and ors v Aventis Animal Nutrition SA and...

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