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American Needle Cert Granted - Some Initial Thoughts

Posted on June 30, 2009
Posted by Chris Sagers A very big, possibly game-changing event has occurred in antitrust. Yesterday, on the last regularly scheduled sitting of its October Term 2008, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the Seventh Circuit's decision in American Needle,...

Tacit Collusion over Foreign Direct Investment under Oligopoly

Posted on June 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Collie (Cardiff Business School) examines Tacit Collusion over Foreign Direct Investment under Oligopoly. ABSTRACT: A two-country model of the FDI versus export decisions of firms is analysed. The analysis considers both the Cournot duopoly...

Competition and financial markets: issues in the current financial crisis

Posted on June 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The OECD has released Competition and financial markets: issues in the current financial crisis. ABSTRACT: The OECD?s Competition Committee debated competition issues in the current financial crisis on 17-18 February 2009. This document presents two...

Price Regulation and Generic Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market

Posted on June 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dag Morten Dalen (Handelshøyskolen BI), Tonje Habeth (Handelshøyskolen BI), and Steinar Strøm (Department of Economics, University of Oslo) explore Price Regulation and Generic Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market. ABSTRACT: In March 2003 the Norwegian government...

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American Competitiveness & the State Owned Enterprise Challenge

Posted on June 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I will be presenting in DC for a conference hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce on July 7. It is on a topic of growing importance - state owned enterprises. My talks will build...

?Competition is a click away?

Posted on June 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol ?Competition is a click away,? so says Google Antitrust GC Dana Wagner. The NY Times has a full story on Google's efforts to minimize its antitrust risk.

Enforcing competition law in the UK, Europe and the US

Posted on June 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Review will host Enforcing competition law in the UK, Europe and the US . Antitrust Litigation 2009 Enforcing competition law in the UK, Europe and the US Friday 2 October 2009, London...

Judicial Decision in Argentina Tackles the Interplay between Enforcing Patent Rights and Antitrust Law within the Dispute between Monsanto and the Argentine Government on the ?GM soy-seed RR?

Posted on June 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mariano Municoy (Moeller IP Advisors) explains how a Judicial Decision in Argentina Tackles the Interplay between Enforcing Patent Rights and Antitrust Law within the Dispute between Monsanto and the Argentine Government on the ?GM soy-seed...

Audio and Materials from AAI June Events Available Online

Posted on June 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 10th Annual Conference The AAI held its 10th annual conference June 18th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This year, the conference was titled "International Antitrust in a World without a Center" and...

Market Power versus Efficient-Structure in Arab GCC Banking

Posted on June 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Saeed Al-Muharrami - Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and Kent Matthews - Cardiff Business School look at Market Power versus Efficient-Structure in Arab GCC Banking. ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates the performance of the Arab GCC banking...

The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion

Posted on June 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrea Gallice, University of Siena - Economics, discusses The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion. ABSTRACT: According to traditional IO models, the characteristics of market demand (intercept, slope, elasticity) and of...

Harmonizing Essential Facilities and Refusals to Deal

Posted on June 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Spencer Waller (Chicago Loyola Law) and William Tasch explain Harmonizing Essential Facilities and Refusals to Deal. ABSTRACT: The United States and the rest of the world have taken markedly different views of the essential facilities...

Competition in Recession

Posted on June 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UK Competition Commission has posted materials from its very interesting Competition in Recession: A Members' Roundtable Meeting held at the Competition Commission 30 March 2009. Programme (pdf, 40kb) Background paper prepared by the CC...

Competition Policy and Property Rights

Posted on June 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Vickers (Oxford - Economics) explains Competition Policy and Property Rights. ABSTRACT: One of the most controversial questions in current competition policy is when, if ever, should competition law require a firm with market power...

The Cartel Offences: An Elemental Pathology

Posted on June 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Beaton-Wells and Brent Fisse (both University of Melbourne Law School) have posted The Cartel Offences: An Elemental Pathology. ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this paper is to review the requirement of a contract, arrangement...

Michael Jackson and Antitrust

Posted on June 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As you probably known by now, Michael Jackson - the King of Pop and among the most bizarre celebrities (if not the most bizarre) is dead. I checked westlaw and found no articles written on...

Facilitating Practices in the Israeli Retail Banking Sector

Posted on June 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Shlomi Parizat (Israeli Antitrust Authority) explains Facilitating Practices in the Israeli Retail Banking Sector. ABSTRACT: On April 26th 2009, the Director General of the Israel Antitrust Authority exercised her authority under § 43(a)(1) of the...

Numerical Comparative Competition Law: Effects of Competition Law Structures on Competition Intensity Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Posted on June 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pablo Márquez (Oxford - Law) explores Numerical Comparative Competition Law: Effects of Competition Law Structures on Competition Intensity Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean. ABSTRACT: This paper goal is to define a method to...

Removing Obstacles to Generic Drug Competition: A Critical Priority for Health Care Reform

Posted on June 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Along with holding Chairman Leibowitz's speech on exclusion payments yesterday, the Center for American Progress released a paper on pharmaceutical antitrust enforcement by David Balto titled Removing Obstacles to Generic Drug Competition: A Critical Priority...

Call for Papers - Antitrust in the Energy Sector

Posted on June 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (www.ogel.org) invites submissions for a Special issue covering antitrust issues in energy. The guest editor for this special issue is Prof. Nicolas Petit (Lecturer in Competition Law and Economics...

FTC Issues Interim Report on "Authorized Generic" Drugs

Posted on June 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the FTC press release: The Federal Trade Commission today issued ?Authorized Generics: An Interim Report,? which presents the first set of results from a study conducted to examine the short-term and long-term effects of...

The Luxembourg Competition Law

Posted on June 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol There are small economies and then there are small economies. Daniel Becker (Luxembourg Competition Inspectorate) explains The Luxembourg Competition Law. ABSTRACT: Till the end of 2004, prices of products and services had been regulated, in...

Pay for Delay Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: How Congress Can Stop Anticompetitive Conduct, Protect Consumers' Wallets, and Help Pay for Health Care Reform

Posted on June 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol FTC Chairman Leibowitz's speech on Pay for Delay Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: How Congress Can Stop Anticompetitive Conduct, Protect Consumers' Wallets, and Help Pay for Health Care Reform (the $35 billion solution), delivered earlier...

European Competition Journal Conference

Posted on June 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol European Competition Journal Conference THURSDAY 16th JULY, 2009 (18.30 ? 21.30) FRIDAY 17th JULY, 2009 (9.00 ? 17.00) Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DW Hart Publishing and the Editors of the European Competition Journal...

The Strong Get Stronger - Jones Day adds David Wales

Posted on June 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Antitrust powerhouse firm of Jones Day has just announced that it has added former FTC Bureau of Competition head David Wales to the firm.

Multi-Market Collusion with Demand Linkages and Antitrust Enforcement

Posted on June 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University - Department of Economics, and Heiko A. Gerlach, University of Auckland - Department of Economics address Multi-Market Collusion with Demand Linkages and Antitrust Enforcement. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes dynamic...

Rewriting the Horizontal Merger Guidelines in the Name of Dynamic Competition

Posted on June 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol J. Gregory Sidak, Criterion Economics, L.L.C., and David Teece, University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group advocate Rewriting the Horizontal Merger Guidelines in the Name of Dynamic Competition. ABSTRACT: We favor revision...

Boosting the Crisis Economy? Competition as an Ally

Posted on June 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rainer Lindberg (Finnish Competition Authority) explains Boosting the Crisis Economy? Competition as an Ally. ABSTRACT: There is well-established empirical evidence that competition?spurring efficiency?promotes productivity within firms and between firms...

Economic Analysis of the Dominican Republic Competition Law

Posted on June 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mónika Infante, (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic - Law) y Fanny Solano, (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Law) provide an Economic Analysis of the Dominican Republic Competition Law. ABSTRACT: After the...

Toward a Unified Theory of Access to Local Telephone Systems

Posted on June 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Spulber (Northwestern - Kellogg School of Management) and Christopher Yoo (Penn Law) have thoughts Toward a Unified Theory of Access to Local Telephone Systems. ABSTRACT: One of the most distinctive developments in telecommunications policy...

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