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Assessing the Antitrust Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

Posted on June 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Zimbalist (Smith College - Econ) writes on Assessing the Antitrust Case Against the Bowl Championship Series. ABSTRACT: In an uncertain world, one predictable event is that the Bowl Championship Series (?BCS?) perennially engenders widespread...

Economic Theory And Competition Law

Posted on June 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Recently out is Economic Theory And Competition Law, edited by Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute). BOOK ABSTRACT: It is a fact that economics matters when it comes to competition law. Yet, the context for this...

Two-Sided Market Definition

Posted on June 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David S. Evans, University College, London, University of Chicago Law School, LECG explains Two-Sided Market Definition. ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the analysis of market definition when the parties involved in an antitrust or merger analysis...

Antitrust/Competition Professors - Separated at Birth

Posted on June 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol While waiting in the Athens airport on the way back from a conference, a colleague and I played the game of who antitrust professors look like. Here is our list in alphabetical order (and please...

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Merger Action Group v. Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Posted on May 31, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Helen Davies (Brick Court Chambers) & Richard Blakeley (Brick Court Chambers) describe Merger Action Group v. Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. ABSTRACT: On December 10, 2008, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (?CAT?)...

The Role of Behavioural Economics in Consumer Protection and Competition Law

Posted on May 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Role of Behavioural Economics in Consumer Protection and Competition Law to be held on 3 June 2009 from 4.30 - 7.30, at UCL Law Faculty, London accredited with 3 CPD hours by the Bar...

Mergers, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms

Posted on May 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kaoru Hosono (Gakushuin University), Miho Takizawa (Toyo University), and Kotaro Tsuru (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) undertake a nice empirical study in Mergers, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms...

Market Concentration and Business Survival in Static v Dynamic Industries

Posted on May 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Burke (Cranfield School of Management) and Aoife Hanley (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) have an interesting study on Market Concentration and Business Survival in Static v Dynamic Industries. ABSTRACT: We propose that the...

Influence of integration of Czech Republic into EU on form and protection of economic competition

Posted on May 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pavl�na Pelle?ov� (University of Silesia-School of Business Administration) discusses the Influence of integration of Czech Republic into EU on form and protection of economic competition. ABSTRACT: The article is focused on area of economic competition...

Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Alchemy in the Age of Empiricism?

Posted on May 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Greaney of Saint Louis University School of Law asks Efficiencies in Merger Analysis: Alchemy in the Age of Empiricism? ABSTRACT: One is hard-pressed to find in law an undertaking more fraught with uncertainty than...

Retail and Wholesale Market Power in Organic Foods

Posted on May 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Timothy J. Richards (ASU - School of Management and Agribusiness), Ram Acharya (New Mexico - Agricultural Economics), and Ignacio Molina (ASU - National Food and Agricultural Policy Project) undertake a study into Retail and Wholesale...

Supermarket Competition through Price Promotions: A Cross Category Analysis

Posted on May 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard James Volpe (UC Davis Ag Econ) examines Supermarket Competition through Price Promotions: A Cross Category Analysis. ABSTRACT: This study takes an important first step at quantifying the nature of competition between major supermarket chains...

Merger Action Group v. Secretary of State for BERR: External Control of the Scottish Economy, Merger Control and the Scottish 'Ring-fence': the LloydsTSB/HBOS Merger

Posted on May 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Barry Rodger (University of Strathclyde Law School) has been doing some very interesting empirical work on private rights of action in the UK. In a departure from that work, he takes on the issue of...

Exclusive Dealing, Entry, and Mergers

Posted on May 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi - Economics) Massimo Motta (Bologna - Economics) Thomas Roende (Copenhagen - Economics) theorize about Exclusive Dealing, Entry, and Mergers. ABSTRACT: This paper studies a model where exclusive dealing (ED) can both promote...

Hydrogen Peroxide: The Crest of the Wave

Posted on May 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kenneth Ewing (Steptoe & Johnson) explains antitrust class actions in Hydrogen Peroxide: The Crest of the Wave. ABSTRACT: On January 16, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an amended decision in...

R&D-hindering Collusion

Posted on May 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Emanuele Bacchiega, Luca Lambertini and Andrea Mantovani (all University of Bologna - Economics) write on R&D-hindering Collusion. ABSTRACT: In an extended version of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin's (1988) R&D competition model we find a region where...

Searching for the Concentration-Price Effect in the German Movie Theater Industry

Posted on May 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Enrico B�hme (Econ - Frankfurt Goethe University) and Christopher M�ller (Econ - Frankfurt Goethe University) investigate a relationship between concentration and prices in Searching for the Concentration-Price Effect in the German Movie Theater Industry ABSTRACT:...

Oligopsony Power: Evidence from the U.S. Beef Packing Industry

Posted on May 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Xiaowei Cai (Cal Poly - Agribusiness), Kyle W. Stiegert (Wisconsin - Agricultural and Applied Economics), and Stephen R. Koontz (Illinois - Agricultural and Resource Economics) provide Oligopsony Power: Evidence from the U.S...

Do prices fall faster when Wal-Mart is around? The effect of competition and reputation on cost pass-through and price adjustment

Posted on May 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol M. Andrea Martens (Illinois - Agriculture and Consumer Economics) asks, Do prices fall faster when Wal-Mart is around? The effect of competition and reputation on cost pass-through and price adjustment. ABSTRACT: This study analyzes Wal-Mart?s...

Toward Judicial Realism: The Evolution of Rule 23

Posted on May 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Katherine Funk (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP) describes Toward Judicial Realism: The Evolution of Rule 23. ABSTRACT: The Rule 23 analysis is currently undergoing what can only be described as a seismic jurisprudential shift...

Rarely Tried, and . . . Rarely Successful': Theoretically Impossible Price Predation Among the Airlines

Posted on May 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chris Sagers, Cleveland State University - Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, analyzes Rarely Tried, and . . . Rarely Successful': Theoretically Impossible Price Predation Among the Airlines. ABSTRACT: Two large bodies of literature bearing on the...

The ECJ Has Spoken: Where Do We Stand with Standard of Proof in Merger Control?

Posted on May 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pal Szilagyi, Competition Law Research Centre, Hungary explains The ECJ Has Spoken: Where Do We Stand with Standard of Proof in Merger Control? ABSTRACT: Comments on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in Bertelsmann....

Third International Conference of IMEDIPA on Competition Law and Policy

Posted on May 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Third International Conference of IMEDIPA on Competition Law and Policy Friday May 29, and Saturday, May 30, 2009 Karatzas Conference Center National Bank of Greece 82-84 Aiolou str., Athens Friday, 29 May 2009 08:30 -...

Monopolistic Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety

Posted on May 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrei Hagiu, Harvard Business School analyzes Monopolistic Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety. ABSTRACT: We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop...

Let's Abolish Telecommunications Law and Rely on Competition Law and Authorities

Posted on May 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antonios G. Broumas, University of Athens, suggests Let's Abolish Telecommunications Law and Rely on Competition Law and Authorities. We have not had enough natural experiments on this but the one that I am familiar with,...

Exceptional Approval of Major Mergers: London and Brussels Compared

Posted on May 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ian Forrester (White & Case) & Stefan Mahoney (White & Case) offer their thoughts on Exceptional Approval of Major Mergers: London and Brussels Compared. ABSTRACT: This note records a short, urgent, highly-publicised attempt by a...

On Government, Governance and Judicial Review: The Case of European Competition Policy

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dirk Lehmkuhl, University of St. Gallen, Political Science explains On Government, Governance and Judicial Review: The Case of European Competition Policy. ABSTRACT: Through the lens of a traditional rationalist principal-agent framework, the development of the...

Women in Antitrust

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have been thinking about gender in antitrust for an ongoing empirical project in which I am examining among other things why economic analysis of law has taken a monopoly position within the US legal...

More Important Additions to the FTC

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Those announced to join the FTC include: Will Tom, who has been practicing antitrust law as a partner in Morgan Lewis?s Washington, D.C. office, is rejoining the Commission, where he was Deputy Director of the...

Exclusive Dealing and Entry

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jo�o Le�o (ISCTE - Portugal) explores Exclusive Dealing and Entry. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the use of exclusive dealing agreements to prevent the entry of rival firms. An exclusive dealing agreement is a contract between...

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