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A Progressive Agenda for Antitrust Enforcement at the Antitrust Division

Posted on March 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Balto (Center for American Progress) calls for A Progressive Agenda for Antitrust Enforcement at the Antitrust Division in his Senate testimony.

Big Trouble in China - Coca-Cola/Huiyuan Deal Rejected

Posted on March 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what is a troubling development, the Chinese government has rejected the Coca-Cola acquisition of Chinese orange juice maker Huiyuan. Upon first glance, I do not see how this deal creates anti-competitive effects and indeed...

Tender Offer Merger and Regulatory Review in Spanish Law

Posted on March 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Francisco Marcos of Instituto de Empresa Business School (and a judge of the Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia de la Comunidad de Madrid) discusses Tender Offer Merger and Regulatory Review in Spanish Law. ABSTRACT:...

The Dynamics of Entry and Exit

Posted on March 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Fok (Erasmus University Rotterdam - Economics), André van Stel (University of Amsterdam - Entrepreneurship), Andrew Burke (Cranfield University - Entrepreneurship), and Roy Thurik (Erasmus University Rotterdam - Economics) address The Dynamics of Entry and...

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Bathwater Out. Now What to Do with Economic Analysis? Antitrust Standards for Unilateral Conduct: Sense and Consensus

Posted on March 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The US Chamber of Commerce has taken a stand in which it defends the Section 2 Report in Bathwater Out. Now What to Do with Economic Analysis? Antitrust Standards for Unilateral Conduct: Sense and Consensus....

Long-term Energy Supply Contracts in European Competition Policy: Fuzzy not Crazy

Posted on March 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jean-Michel Glachant (University Paris XI - Economics) and Adrien de Hauteclocque (University Paris XI - Economics) argue that Long-term Energy Supply Contracts in European Competition Policy: Fuzzy not Crazy. ABSTRACT: Long-term supply contracts often have...

Pros and Cons of ?Backing Winners? in Innovation Policy

Posted on March 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Frank A.G. den Butter (University of Amsterdam - Economics) and Seung-gyu Jo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Economics) focus on the Pros and Cons of ?Backing Winners? in Innovation Policy. ABSTRACT: In the economics profession there...

The Deterrence Effect of Excluding Ringleaders from Leniency Programs

Posted on March 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jesko Herre, University of Cologne - Economics and Alexander Rasch, University of Cologne - Economics have an interesting account of The Deterrence Effect of Excluding Ringleaders from Leniency Programs. ABSTRACT: This paper looks at the...

Online Retailing and Antitrust: Taking Account of the Paradigm Shift

Posted on March 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan Riley (City University London - Law) writes on Online Retailing and Antitrust: Taking Account of the Paradigm Shift. ABSTRACT: In the run up to the Commission?s reform of its vertical restraints legislation, the advisers...

Who?s Afraid of the Internet? Time to Put Consumer Interests at the Heart of Competition

Posted on March 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephen Kinsella (Sidley Austin) and Hanne Melin (Sidley Austin) ask Who?s Afraid of the Internet? Time to Put Consumer Interests at the Heart of Competition. ABSTRACT: The on-going review of the Vertical Restraints Regulation (?VRR?)...

University of Florida Levin College of Law Student Wins ABA Antitrust Section Writing Prize for note "Does a Cartel Aim Expressly? Trusting Calder Personal Jurisdiction When Antitrust Goes Global"

Posted on March 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am happy to announce that the winner of the ABA Antitrust Section writing prize for the best antitrust note written by a law school student is our own Larry Dougherty. Larry is the outgoing...

Injecting Innovation into The Rule of Reason: A Comment on Evans and Hylton

Posted on March 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard Gilbert (University of California at Berkeley - Economics) offers his thoughts on Injecting Innovation into The Rule of Reason: A Comment on Evans and Hylton. ABSTRACT: The Evans and Hylton paper on The Lawful...

Vertical Restraints and Competition Policy?Internet Sales, a New Dimension to be Considered

Posted on March 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kornel Mahlstein (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) has authored Vertical Restraints and Competition Policy?Internet Sales, a New Dimension to be Considered. ABSTRACT: The internet expands the size of the market and gives consumers...

The OECD Competition Committee adopts Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement

Posted on March 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The OECD Competition Committee has adopted Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement.

Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC v. Rambus

Posted on March 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright of George Mason Law School explains Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC v. Rambus. ABSTRACT: In November 2008, the Federal Trade Commission petitioned the Supreme Court to review...

No Competition

Posted on March 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This week is spring break at the University of Florida so the Sokol family has been spending time in DC with my parents. During this visit, I am reminded that there is one area in...

The FTC's Procedural Advantage in Discovering Concerted Action

Posted on March 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My colleague Bill Page has posted an excellent working paper The FTC's Procedural Advantage in Discovering Concerted Action. ABSTRACT: Scholars have long argued that Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act can or should...

Imperfect Enforcement of Predatory Pricing Law

Posted on March 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Theon van Dijk, Lexonomics, and Dag Morten Dalen, Norwegian School of Management - Department of Economics, address the Imperfect Enforcement of Predatory Pricing Law. ABSTRACT: An important action that is illegal according to competition law,...

Agency Decision-Making

Posted on March 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Now in his new position as Chairman of the US Antitrust practice at Clifford Chance, Bill Blumenthal (formerly FTC General Counsel) made an interesting presentation at the To Enforce and Comply: Incentives inside Corporations and...

Intra- and Inter-Format Competition Among Discounters and Supermarkets

Posted on March 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kathleen Cleeren Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Department of Applied Economics, Marnik Dekimpe Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Department of Applied Economics, Katrijn Gielens Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Economics, and Frank Verboven...

Antitrust Summer Externship in Washington DC

Posted on March 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The American Antitrust Institute is pleased to announce an externship to employ at least one volunteer who will earn the title of Summer Research Fellow. Resumes can be sent to Bert Foer. AAI is particularly...

Carl Shapiro to Join DOJ as Chief Economist

Posted on March 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bloomberg reports that Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business, and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department, at the University of California at Berkeley is set to become...

Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing

Posted on March 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Iwan Bos (University of Amsterdam - Law and Economics Center) and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam - Law and Economics Center) have come up with Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point...

Are Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integration a Problem?

Posted on March 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon Pilsbury (Oxera) and Andrew Meaney (Oxera) ask Are Horizontal Mergers and Vertical Integration a Problem? ABSTRACT: This report examines market power in rail markets in Europe arising from horizontal and vertical mergers in the...

Why the EU Does Not Have an Independent Competition Agency: French Interests and Transaction Costs in Early European Integration

Posted on March 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yannis Karagiannis, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals asks Why the EU Does Not Have an Independent Competition Agency: French Interests and Transaction Costs in Early European Integration. ABSTRACT: A major achievement of new institutionalism in economics...

The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion

Posted on March 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel SokolAndrea Gallice, University of Sienna, has written The Neglected Effects of Demand Characteristics on the Sustainability of Collusion. ABSTRACT: According to standard IO models, the characteristics of market demand (intercept, slope, elasticity) and of the technology...

Managerial Effort Incentives and Market Collusion

Posted on March 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cécile Aubert (University of Bordeaux (GREThA) and Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA)) has written an interesting paper on Managerial Effort Incentives and Market Collusion. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the interactions between the incentives of managers...

New French Competition Authority Takes Shape

Posted on March 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The make-up of the new French competition authority, l'Autorité de la concurrence has been announced. Members are: - Bruno Lasserre, président - Françoise Aubert, vice-présidente - Anne Perrot, vice-présidente - Elisabeth Flüry-Hérard, vice-présidente - Patrick...

European State Aid Law

Posted on March 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Out soon is European State Aid Law, the definitive book by Conor Quigley QC (Brick Court Chambers). BOOK ABSTRACT: This new edition of Conor Quigley's book (originally 'EC State Aid Law and Policy'), offers the...

The Anticompetitive Effects of the Antitrust Policy

Posted on March 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Bartolini (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Economics) and Alberto Zazzaro (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Economics) have authored the provocative The Anticompetitive Effects of the Antitrust Policy...

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