Corporate & Securities Law

Competition Law - New Tendencies, New Tools and New Enforcement Methods

Posted on February 26, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol COMPETITION LAW ? NEW TENDENCIES, NEW TOOLS AND NEW ENFORCEMENT METHODS FROM AN EC AND POLISH PERSPECTIVECOLLEGE OF EUROPEWARSAW ? NATOLIN, 13 MARCH 2009CONFERENCE PROGRAMME8.30 ? 9.15: Registration 9.15 ? 9.30: Welcome wordsProf...

linkLine Supreme Court Decision is Out

Posted on February 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The decision is available here.

Market Power in Competition for the Market

Posted on February 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sangin Park, Seoul National University, South Korea Graduate School of Public Administration presents Market Power in Competition for the Market. ABSTRACT: In the evaluation of abuse of dominance (or Section 2 cases in the United...

Expropriating Monopoly Rents through Stable Buyer Groups

Posted on February 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chris Doyle, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics and Martijn A. Han, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics have an interesting piece on Expropriating Monopoly...

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The Concept of State Aid in Liberalised Sectors

Posted on February 25, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas Von Danwitz, European Court of Justice addresses The Concept of State Aid in Liberalised Sectors. ABSTRACT: The author highlights the balancing act both on the regulatory as well as on the institutional level between....

Anti-Monopolization Workarounds

Posted on February 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Reza Dibadj, University of San Francisco - School of Law focuses his latest work on Anti-Monopolization Workarounds. ABSTRACT: Bringing a monopolization claim under the Cartwright Act is difficult work. This article first explains the possible...

Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility

Posted on February 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Axel Gautier, University of Liege - Research Center on Public and Population Economics, Catholic University of Louvain - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Manipushpak Mitra, University of Bonn - Institute of Economic...

Best Practice for Economic Submissions

Posted on February 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a newly released document, the British Competition Commission released a statement on best practices for economic submissions.The Competition Commission (CC) has published a short document outlining guiding principles for parties to follow when submitting...

Measuring and Explaining Competition in the Financial Sector

Posted on February 24, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Addressing an important issue are Jacob A. Bikker (Utrecht - Economics) and Laura Spierdijk (Groningen - Economics) in their paper Measuring and Explaining Competition in the Financial Sector. ABSTRACT: The first part of this paper...

Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance

Posted on February 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Iain M. Cockburn (BU Economics), Megan J. MacGarvie (BU Economics), and Elisabeth Mu?ller (ZEW Centre for European Economic Research) discuss Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance. ABSTRACT: We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property...

Do Islamic Banks Have Greater Market Power?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Laurent Weill of the Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LARGE) (Management Research Laboratory) Université de Strasbourg asks, Do Islamic Banks Have Greater Market Power? ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether Islamic...

Abuse and Monopolization: Unilateral Conduct by Two Competition Authorities?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gunnar Niels of Oxera offers insights into Abuse and Monopolization: Unilateral Conduct by Two Competition Authorities? ABSTRACT: Within the space of a few months, two pre-eminent competition authorities issued widely publicized reports on unilateral conduct,...

If You Are an Antitrust Lawyer, Economist or Professor in the DC area, What Are Your Plans for This Friday and Saturday?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol If you are in town, you should attend Private Enforcement of Competition Law: New Directions The GW Competition Law Center hosts this conference with the goal of promoting discussion among policymakers, practitioners, and academics --...

Kroes - The Road to Recovery

Posted on February 23, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Neelie Kroes gave a speech to the OECD's 105th meeting of the OECD Competition Committee on The Road to Recovery. Among her points:A middle way would be to have regulators to require full and frank...

Competition and Competition Policy in the Trans-Tasman Air Travel Market

Posted on February 22, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Hazledine, University of Auckland Business School writes on Competition and Competition Policy in the Trans-Tasman Air Travel Market. ABSTRACT: New data on air fares offered on 29 trans-Tasman and domestic New Zealand routes are...

The New Consensus on Class Certification: What it Means for the Use of Economic and Statistical Evidence in Meeting the Requirements of Rule 23

Posted on February 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Evans (University of Chicago, University College London, LECG)addresses The New Consensus on Class Certification: What it Means for the Use of Economic and Statistical Evidence in Meeting the Requirements of Rule 23. ABSTRACT: Offering...

State Action Doctrine in Spain: Treatment of State Anticompetitive Restrictions

Posted on February 20, 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 State Action Doctrine in Spain: Treatment of State Anticompetitive Restrictions...

Mergers and Market Dominance

Posted on February 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp,University of Iowa College of Law has a new piece on Mergers and Market Dominance. Mergers involving dominant firms legitimately receive close scrutiny under the antitrust laws, even if they involve tiny firms...

Antitrust Regulation Of Innovation Markets

Posted on February 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The remarks of FTC Commissioner Tom Rosch on Antitrust Regulation Of Innovation Markets that Rosch presented at the ABA Antitrust-IP conference at Berkeley are now available. Some highlights include:I would like to discuss the practical...

Microsoft, Refusal to License Intellectual Property Rights, and the Incentives Balance Test of the EU Commission

Posted on February 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolfgang Kerber, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics and Claudia Schmidt, University of Marburg - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration have a new paper on Microsoft, Refusal to License Intellectual...

Professor Christopher Leslie on the Move

Posted on February 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As reported by Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Chicago Kent professor Christopher Leslie is joining the faculty at the new UC Irvine Law School. Congratulations to Christopher on the move. His departure leaves David Gerber...

FTC Announces Third in Series of Hearings on Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace

Posted on February 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC has announced Public Hearings to be held in Washington, DC on March 18 and 19, 2009 on The Evolving Market for Intellectual Property. INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLESMARCH 18, 2009Four panels will examine the operation of...

It Takes 2 to Tango: Competition Policy Analysis for 2-Sided Markets

Posted on February 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol It Takes 2 to Tango: Competition Policy Analysis for 2-Sided Markets Lecturer(s): Professor David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee Two-sided markets is one of the hottest areas in economics and competition policy. Some businesses operate...

Prices and Profits in Dominant Firm Adjudication

Posted on February 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol F.M. Scherer of Harvard - Kennedy School of Government provides insights into Prices and Profits in Dominant Firm Adjudication. ABSTRACT: Written for a conference at the University of Lisbon, this paper analyzes policies toward prices...

The European Commission Formulates its Enforcement Priorities as Regards Exclusionary Conduct by Dominant Undertakings

Posted on February 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Philip Lowe (European Commission, DG Competition) has written an essay on The European Commission Formulates its Enforcement Priorities as Regards Exclusionary Conduct by Dominant Undertakings. ABSTRACT: During the past 50 years, the enforcement of Article...

A Larger Slice or a Larger Pie? An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining Power in the Distribution Channel

Posted on February 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michaela Draganska, Stanford - Graduate School of Business, Daniel Klapper, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-UniversitÄat Frankfurt and Sofia B. Villas-Boas, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics have a new paper on A Larger Slice or...

A Peak Into the Future? AAG-Designate Christine Varney on Section 2: Audio from AAI June 2008 Conference

Posted on February 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol At the AAI annual conference in June 2008, Christine Varney, President Obama's nominee for the top antitrust position at DOJ, spoke on a panel about Section 2 of the Sherman Act. She generally endorsed the...

Antitrust, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Posted on February 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol All are invited to The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Antitrust, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, with 2009 Guest Lecturer Prof. Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School. The lecture will be held at the American University...

The Commission Guidance on Predation: A Cautious Step In the Right Direction?

Posted on February 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas Janssens (Freshfields) provides his thoughts on The Commission Guidance on Predation: A Cautious Step In the Right Direction? ABSTRACT: In the EU, predatory pricing analysis traditionally has stood somewhat apart from the assessment of...

Managing Economic Analysis in Competition Law

Posted on February 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Managing Economic Analysis in Competition LawMarch 6-7, 2009Location: Schloss Gracht Modern EU competition law focuses on an effects-based analysis. The handling of empirical evidence and economic arguments and the incorporation of these into the legal...

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