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Eighth Global Forum on Competition

Posted on January 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The OECD will host the Eighth Global Forum on Competition in Paris on February 19-20, 2009. -- Draft agenda -- (As at 15 December 2008) ------------------------------------- Thursday 19 February 2009 ------------------------------------- Thursday Morning Opening (1/2...

A Record 110 Countries and 115 Jurisdictions Now Regulate Mergers Through Antitrust Laws

Posted on January 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the White & Case press release: A record 115 jurisdictions worldwide now regulate mergers and acquisitions, according to a new survey by global law firm White & Case LLP. Since 1996, White & Case...

The Impact of a Corporate Leniency Program on Antitrust Enforcement and Cartelization

Posted on January 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Myong-Hun Chang (Cleveland State - Economics) and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. (Johns Hopkins - Economics) have an interesting new paper on The Impact of a Corporate Leniency Program on Antitrust Enforcement and Cartelization. ABSTRACT: To...

Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property, Competition and Regulatory Law

Posted on January 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Stothers (University College London Law and Milbank Tweed) is the author of Parallel Trade in Europe: Intellectual Property, Competition and Regulatory Law. ABSTRACT: Are parallel importers the key to free trade, breaking down long-established...

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BCS may violate antitrust laws

Posted on January 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sports antitrust has always been a hot topic. As someone whose school is playing in the BCS championship game (go Gators!), I read with great interest that according to the Utah AG, the BCS may...

Exclusionary Vertical Contracts with Multiple Entrants

Posted on January 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hiroshi Kitamura (PhD student - Economics, Osaka University) undertakes an analysis of Exclusionary Vertical Contracts with Multiple Entrants. ABSTRACT: This paper constructs a model of anticompetitive exclusive dealing in the presence of multiple entrants...

Collusion via Resale

Posted on January 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thomas Tr�ger (University of Bonn - Economics), Rodney Garratt (UC Santa Barbara - Economics), and Charles Zheng discuss Collusion via Resale. ABSTRACT: The English auction is susceptible to tacit collusion when post-auction inter-bidder resale is...

Intellectual Property Law and EU Competition Law

Posted on January 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonathan Turner is the author of the forthcoming Intellectual Property Law and EU Competition Law. BOOM ABSTRACT: The interface between intellectual property rights and competition policy is one of the most important and difficult areas...

The Future of Monopolization Under an Obama Administration

Posted on January 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I had a heated discussion on this topic with some friends this weekend. For the record, I am sticking with my prediction (see my forthcoming short essay Change and Continuity in International Antitrust Under an...

FTC GC Blumenthal to Clifford Chance

Posted on January 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol FTC General Counsel Bill Blumenthal is leaving the agency to join international powerhouse Clifford Chance as the head of its US antitrust practice. Bill has played an important role in international efforts (including in China)...

Global Competition Law, Markets and Globalization

Posted on January 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Gerber of Chicago Kent Law has a written a forthcoming book titled Global Competition Law, Markets and Globalization. BOOK ABSTRACT: Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years...

How Can National Competition Authorities Mobilize in Times of Global Crisis?

Posted on January 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bruno Lasserre (Conseil de la concurrence) asks How Can National Competition Authorities Mobilize in Times of Global Crisis? ABSTRACT: The crisis that started with the U.S. mortgage market has spread to the worldwide banking sector...

Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Economic Complexity & Judicial Training on Appeals

Posted on January 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright of George Mason Law School and Michael Baye of the IU Kelley School of Business have an interesting article on Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Economic Complexity &...

Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy

Posted on January 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vincenzo Atella (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University), and Lorenzo Carbonari (University of Rome Tor Vergata) provide us with an analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and...

To a New Era of Competition Law Teaching

Posted on January 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dear Readers, I need you help. This week I will go to San Diego for a meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), where American law professors gather on a yearly basis to...

The Quiet Life of a Monopolist: The Efficiency Losses of Monopoly Reconsidered

Posted on January 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jun Chen and Zhiqi Chen (both of Department of Economics, Carleton University) write on The Quiet Life of a Monopolist: The Efficiency Losses of Monopoly Reconsidered. ABSTRACT: In this paper we study the efficiency losses...

Antitrust Legislation and Policy in a Global Economic Crisis?A Canadian Perspective

Posted on January 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol George Addy, Anita Banicevic, & Mark Katz (all of Davis Ward Phillips & Vineberg) provide their thoughts on Antitrust Legislation and Policy in a Global Economic Crisis?A Canadian Perspective. ABSTRACT: As the global economic crisis...

Article 81 EC and Public Policy

Posted on January 03, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Townley (King's College, London - Law) is writing a book on Article 81 EC and Public Policy. BOOK ABSTRACT: This book discusses the role of public policy in Article 81 of the EC Treaty....

ICN Seminar on Competition Agency Effectiveness

Posted on January 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This seminar will constitute a forum for exchange of ideas and brainstorming on different organisational and planning tools and methods in use in competition agencies and their relative merits. The seminar will take place in...

Evaluating Market Power with Two-Sided Demand and Preemptive Offers to Dissipate Monopoly Rent: Lessons for High-Technology Industries from the Antitrust Division's Approval of the XM-Sirius Satellite Radio Merger

Posted on January 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a new paper, Greg Sidak (Criterion Economics) and Hal Singer (Empirus) discuss Evaluating Market Power with Two-Sided Demand and Preemptive Offers to Dissipate Monopoly Rent: Lessons for High-Technology Industries from the Antitrust Division's Approval...

The Assessment of Collective SMP: Lessons Learned from the First Round of Market Review

Posted on January 02, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Liyang Hou of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT reviews The Assessment of Collective SMP: Lessons Learned from the First Round of Market Review. ABSTRACT: The legal uncertainty in the application...

Can the Threat of Entry Reduce Competition?

Posted on January 01, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Martin C. Byford, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School and Joshua S. Gans, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne - Department of Economics ask Can the Threat of Entry Reduce...

OECD-Korea Policy Centre Looking For an Expert to Head It

Posted on December 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to the OECD Competition Policy website posting (deadline is January 14, 2009): We are looking for a senior expert with substantial experience in competition policy analysis and the application of competition laws. S/he will...

Intellectual Property Disclosure as 'Threat'

Posted on December 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Scott Baker (University of North Carolina, School of Law), Pak Yee Lee (University of Leicester, Department of Economics), and Claudio Mezzetti (University of Warwick, Department of Economics), have an interesting paper on Intellectual Property Disclosure...

Competition of Competition Policy Journals

Posted on December 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Over the last few years, we have witnessed important changes in the antitrust academic journal community. As new journals have emerged (e.g., Journal of Competition Law and Economics, European Competition Journal, Competition Law Review), I...

ABA Antitrust-IP Conference

Posted on December 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This year?s two-day ABA Antitrust Section Intellectual Property/Antitrust conference will take place at the crossroads of Administrations, and will provide a comprehensive review of recent developments, as well as a look ahead at potential changes,...

Michael Baye to Leave FTC

Posted on December 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Just in time for the coming academic semester, Michael Baye will return to the IU Bloomington Kelley School of Business from a successful stint as the head of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC....

Keeping the Engagement Ring: Apportioning Antitrust Risk with Reverse Breakup Fees

Posted on December 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Darren Tucker, O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Kevin Yingling, O'Melveny & Myers LLP ask about Keeping the Engagement Ring: Apportioning Antitrust Risk with Reverse Breakup Fees. ABSTRACT: Reverse breakup fees are payments from a buyer...

Competition Law and Policy in Bad Times

Posted on December 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Lewis (Competition Tribunal of South Africa) discusses Competition Law and Policy in Bad Times. ABSTRACT: Macroeconomists often stand accused?with good reason?of treating firms as black boxes whose diverse features are not acknowledged, or even...

Change and Continuity in International Antitrust under an Obama Administration

Posted on December 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol D. Daniel Sokol of the University of Florida Levin College of Law (i.e., your blog editor) has a forthcoming essay in Competition Policy International on Change and Continuity in International Antitrust under an Obama Administration...

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