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Market Sharing and Price Leadership

Posted on March 30, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ante Farm (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University) addresses Market Sharing and Price Leadership in a new working paper. ABSTRACT: This paper proposes an alternative to the traditional model of supply and demand in...

Blog Symposium on Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law

Posted on March 29, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol On March 30th and 31st, our friends at Truth on the Market will hold their first blog symposium. The topic will be Michael Carrier?s (Rutgers) forthcoming book: Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power...

Merger Review of Firms in Financial Distress

Posted on March 28, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yesterday at the ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, I bumped into DOJ superstar Ken Heyer prior to my session. Ken let me know that his new paper with Sheldon Kimmel (also of DOJ), Merger Review...

Why Different Jurisdictions Do Not (and Should Not) Adopt the Same Antitrust Rules

Posted on March 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Evans (University of Chicago, University College London, LECG) makes the persuasive case Why Different Jurisdictions Do Not (and Should Not) Adopt the Same Antitrust Rules. ABSTRACT: This article summarizes the theory on the optimal...

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Regulating Interoperability: Lessons from AT&T, Microsoft, and Beyond

Posted on March 27, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Phil Weiser at the University of Colorado Law School discusses Regulating Interoperability: Lessons from AT&T, Microsoft, and Beyond. ABSTRACT: Antitrust law confronted the challenges of regulating interoperability between platforms and applications in both the AT&T...

What Drives Channel Choice in Grocery Shopping?

Posted on March 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In light on the FTC case against Whole Foods, we have increased interest here at the blog on supermarket issues. Pradeep K. Chintagunta (University of Chicago Booth-Business), Junhong Chu (NUS Business School) and Javier Cebollada-Calvo,...

Revitalizing Section 5 of the FTC Using 'Consumer Choice' Analysis

Posted on March 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert H. Lande of the University of Baltimore Law School suggests Revitalizing Section 5 of the FTC Using 'Consumer Choice' Analysis. ABSTRACT: This paper makes two points. First, Section 5 of the FTC Act, properly...

Professor Carrier's New Book from Oxford University Press

Posted on March 26, 2009
posted by Shubha Ghosh Congratulations to Professor Michael Carrier of Rutgers-Camden Law School on the publication of his new book Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law, published earlier this month by Oxford...

Call for Nominations for the Jerry S. Cohen Award for the Best Antitrust Scholarship of 2009

Posted on March 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Charitable Trust is again seeking nominations for its annual award for best antitrust scholarship. Legal, economic, and business articles, monographs, and books published during 2008 are eligible for this award...

Assessing the Consequences of a Horizontal Merger and its Remedies in a Dynamic Environment

Posted on March 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Isao Ishida (Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo) Toshiaki Watanabe (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) offer some thoughts on Assessing the Consequences of a Horizontal Merger and its...

The Joint Estimation of Firm-level Market Power and Efficiency

Posted on March 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Manthos Delis (University of Ioannina Department of Economics) and Efthymios Tsionas (Athens University of Economics and Business) provide The Joint Estimation of Firm-level Market Power and Efficiency. ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to...

ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting Begins Today

Posted on March 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The most important world-wide antitrust conference of the year begins today in Washington DC at the JW Marriott Hotel and the National Press Club. You can download the agenda here. Academics in law and economics,...

Second Annual Searle Center Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy

Posted on March 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Second Annual Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy at Northwestern University...

Collusion Sustainability with Multimarket Contacts: Revisiting HHI Tests

Posted on March 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Edmond Baranes (LASER-CREDEN Universit� de Montpellier), Francois Mirabel (LASER-CREDEN Universit� de Montpellier), and Jean-Christophe Poudou (LASER-CREDEN Universit� de Montpellier) address Collusion Sustainability with Multimarket Contacts: Revisiting HHI Tests...

The Evolution of Competition Law and Policy in the United Kingdom

Posted on March 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Scott (LSE Law) describes The Evolution of Competition Law and Policy in the United Kingdom. ABSTRACT: A modern, statutory competition regime emerged in Britain only after the Second World War, developing somewhat haphazardly thereafter...

Jones Day's $10,000 Swope Antitrust Writing Prize Winners Announced

Posted on March 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Law student Anthony J. Alt today won the William E. Swope Antitrust Prize. The writing competition sponsored by international law firm Jones Day awards a $10,000 first prize for an essay illustrating the fact-intensive approach...

Quality, Upgrades, and (the Loss of) Market Power in a Dynamic Monopoly Model

Posted on March 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol James J. Anton (Duke University - Fuqua Business) and Gary Biglaiser (UNC Chapel Hill - Economics) have written on Quality, Upgrades, and (the Loss of) Market Power in a Dynamic Monopoly Model. ABSTRACT: We examine...

A Chicago School Take on Patent Licensing: Understanding the Economics of the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine

Posted on March 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anne Layne-Farrar, (LECG), Gerard Llobet, (Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies), and A. Jorge Padilla, (LECG) offer A Chicago School Take on Patent Licensing: Understanding the Economics of the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine...

Selective Distribution of Branded and Luxury Products and the Conjuncture of Online and Offline Commerce in the Light of the European Commission's Revision of the Vertical Restraints Regime

Posted on March 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andr�s Font Galarza and Constantin Gissler (both of Mayer Brown) analyze Selective Distribution of Branded and Luxury Products and the Conjuncture of Online and Offline Commerce in the Light of the European Commission's Revision of...

The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements

Posted on March 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Keith N. Hylton, Boston University - School of Law and Sungjoon Cho, Chicago Kent College of Law offer their insights into The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements. ABSTRACT: This paper extends the economic literature...

Incentives to Foreclose

Posted on March 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Roman Inderst (University of Frankfurt - Finance) and Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London - Economics) address Incentives to Foreclose. ABSTRACT: The European Commission?s new non-horizontal merger guidelines envisage a three-step approach to assessing the threat...

Predicting Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Posted on March 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Newbery discusses Predicting Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets. ABSTRACT: The traditional measure of market power is the HHI, which gives implausible results given the low elasticity of demand in electricity spot markets, unless...

The View From China - Coke/Huiyuan Merger Decision by MOFCOM a Blunder

Posted on March 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Patrick Chovanec, an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing, calls the MOFCOM decision on Coke/Huiyuan Beijing's Antitrust Blunder in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal Asia...

Product Pricing When Demand Follows a Rule of Thumb

Posted on March 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christina Matzke and Benedikt Wirth (both University of Bonn - Economics) analyze Product Pricing When Demand Follows a Rule of Thumb. ABSTRACT: We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a...

Ten Points to Consider When Reviewing Regulation 2790/1999

Posted on March 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Lugard (Royal Philips Electronics) and Joost Haans (Royal Philips Electronics) offer Ten Points to Consider When Reviewing Regulation 2790/1999. Paul is one of the most thoughtful antitrust GCs in Europe. I have had the...

Dan Crane to Lateral to the University of Michigan

Posted on March 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust rising star Dan Crane (Cardozo), whose work includes interesting analysis of Section 2 issues, institutional arrangements of antitrust, and antitrust history has accepted a lateral offer to join the University of Michigan law School...

Daubert Challenges of Antitrust Experts

Posted on March 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol James Langenfeld, LECG and Chris Alexander, Loyola University of Chicago have posted Daubert Challenges of Antitrust Experts. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the affect of Daubert v. Merell Dow Pharms and related gatekeeping decisions on expert...

Unilateral Conduct Workshop

Posted on March 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The agenda for the ICN Unilateral Conduct Workshop, which will be held March 23-24, 2009 in Washington, DC prior to the spring meeting is now available. The agenda and speaker list is really good and...

The Influence of Industry Concentration on Merger Motives: Empirical Evidence from the Machinery Industry

Posted on March 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Florian Geiger, International University School Reichartshausen - Department of Finance & Accounting has a nice empirical piece on The Influence of Industry Concentration on Merger Motives: Empirical Evidence from the Machinery Industry...

International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Competition Law 2008 Book Now In Print

Posted on March 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Out this month is the annual Barry Hawk edited International Antitrust Law & Policy: Fordham Competition Law 2008. BOOK ABSTRACT: Every October the Fordham Competition Law Institute brings together leading figures from governmental organizations, leading...

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