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A Price-Fixer's Memoir ? Exculpation and Revenge While Confronting the Antitrust Abyss: An Essay on Threshold Resistance by Alfred Taubman

Posted on November 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Arthur Austin (Case Western Law) has a wonderful new piece in the latest issue of the Antitrust Source on A Price-Fixer's Memoir ? Exculpation and Revenge While Confronting the Antitrust Abyss: An Essay on Threshold...

Antitrust Under an Obama Administration

Posted on November 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This was an electoral landslide. What the election means for antitrust remains to be seen depending on who runs DOJ and FTC. The Daily Deal suggests that the next head of DOJ Antitrust will be...

The Democracy of Competition - EC (Competition) Law and the Fine Line between Markets, Public Interests and (Self-)Regulation

Posted on November 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hans Vedder of University of Groningen discusses The Democracy of Competition - EC (Competition) Law and the Fine Line between Markets, Public Interests and (Self-)Regulation in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: The EC and it's...

Network Structure and Design in the Deregulated U.S. Airline Industry: An Argument for Re-Regulation?

Posted on November 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sayed A. Hussain, University of Toronto and Serkan Bahçeci, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. - JPMorgan Asset Management discuss Network Structure and Design in the Deregulated U.S. Airline Industry: An Argument for Re-Regulation? ABSTRACT: This...

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Beyond the Cartel Law Handbook: How Corruption, Social Norms and Collectivist Business Cultures can Undermine Conventional Enforcement Tools

Posted on November 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andreas Stephan of the University of East Anglia Centre for Competition Policy offers his thoughts on Beyond the Cartel Law Handbook: How Corruption, Social Norms and Collectivist Business Cultures can Undermine Conventional Enforcement Tools...

Twombly and Communication: the Emerging Definition of Concerted Action Under the New Pleading Standards

Posted on November 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My colleague Bill Page has posted an excellent working paper Twombly and Communication: the Emerging Definition of Concerted Action Under the New Pleading Standards. ABSTRACT: After the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Bell Atlantic Corp...

Vertical Mergers

Posted on November 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeffrey Church, University of Calgary - Economics provides an overview into Vertical Mergers. ABSTRACT: This chapter provides an overview of the economics of vertical mergers. The overview strongly supports, on both theoretical and empirical grounds,...

International Antitrust Featured at SMU Dedman Conference-Fri, Nov 7

Posted on November 03, 2008
(posted by Shubha Ghosh) International Competition Policy is one of the four featured topics at the Nov 7 conference on The Rise of Transnational Networks. Professor Eleanor Fox of NYU School of Law, Professor George A Bermann of Columbia Law...

The Misuse of the Less Restrictive Alternative Inquiry in Rule of Reason Analysis

Posted on November 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gabe Feldman (Tulane Law) has just posted The Misuse of the Less Restrictive Alternative Inquiry in Rule of Reason Analysis. ABSTRACT: The rule of reason articulated by the Supreme Court in 1918 in Chicago Board...

The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2007?2008

Posted on November 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The annual Review of Industrial Organization Year in Review of DOJ Antitrust is available. Authored this year by Ken Heyer and Nicholas Hill, this is a short and wonderful piece. Download heyer-hill_1.pdf

The Emperor's New Clothes: Lifting the NCAA's Veil of Amateurism

Posted on November 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Amy C. McCormick, Michigan State University College of Law and Robert A. McCormick, Michigan State University College of Law bring us The Emperor's New Clothes: Lifting the NCAA's Veil of Amateurism. ABSTRACT: In The Emperor's...

Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis

Posted on November 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future, Jacob K. Goeree, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles A. Holt, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, Erica C. Myers, Resources...

Ex Post Assessment of Regulation 1/2003

Posted on November 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ian Forrester of White & Case provides an Ex Post Assessment of Regulation 1/2003. ABSTRACT: More than 25 years ago, Christopher Norall and I wrote an article challenging the Commission?s approach to the application of...

NY Times Editorial Comes Out Against DOJ Section 2 Report and DO Antitrust Division

Posted on November 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I cannot remember the last time there was an editorial about antitrust in the NY Times but only days before the election, there is an editorial about the DOJ Section 2 Report and the Division...

2008 Compass Lexecon Prize

Posted on October 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The winners of the 2008 Compass Lexecon Prize have been announced. According to the press release: The Compass Lexecon Prize Selection Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Compass Lexecon Prize....

FTC For Kids

Posted on October 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC has created a special website for kids.

Competition Can Harm Consumers

Posted on October 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon Cowan, University of Oxford - Department of Economics and Xiangkang Yin, La Trobe University - Department of Economics and Finance suggest that Competition Can Harm Consumers. ABSTRACT: Duopolists selling differentiated products can generate less...

Competition Commission Innagurated in the Gambia

Posted on October 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Gambia has inaugurated its Competition Commission. Welcome to the world of competition policy and remember which blog provides the greatest coverage of antitrust scholarship in the world.

Schumpeterian Competition and Antitrust

Posted on October 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp,University of Iowa College of Law, has a wonderful new piece (as so many of Herb's are) on Schumpeterian Competition and Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Joseph Schumpeter's vision of competition saw it as a destructive process...

Innocent Until Proven Guilty -- Or Not: An Economic Review of Market Power and Price Fixing Allegations for Text Messaging Services

Posted on October 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christian Dippon,(NERA) has written Innocent Until Proven Guilty -- Or Not: An Economic Review of Market Power and Price Fixing Allegations for Text Messaging Services. ABSTRACT: A fundamental shift in the US telecommunications industry's legal...

Antitrust and Competition Center in Chile

Posted on October 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Though already in existence for three years, let me introduce to a worldwide readership the Antitrust and Competition Center of the Universidad Catolica de Chile. It is the only center of its kind in Chile...

Some Potential Issues in Delta/Northwestern To Consider

Posted on October 30, 2008
Posted by Darren Bush Can someone help me out here? There might be compelling reasons for the merger. Don?t get me wrong. The most compelling case I have heard is from a former student of mine. Kristina McQuaid, Delta &...

EU Competition Enforcement And Human Rights

Posted on October 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a new book Arianna Andreangeli, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool brings together two topics that generally do not get much discussion among competition policy types in her book EU Competition Enforcement And Human...

DOJ Gives Blessing to Delta/Northwestern Merger

Posted on October 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DOJ has released a Statement of the Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division on Its Decision to Close Its Investigation of the Merger of Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corporation. In short, the merger...

Data Security Handbook

Posted on October 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has produced a Data Security Handbook. ABSTRACT: The purpose of the Data Security Handbook is to provide legal practitioners and information technology specialists with a concise, practical guide that summarizes common...

The Lawful Acquisition and Exercise of Monopoly Power and its Implications for the Objectives of Antitrust

Posted on October 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Evans of UCL Law and LECG and Keith Hylton of BU Law School and provide a fascinating examination of The Lawful Acquisition and Exercise of Monopoly Power and its Implications for the Objectives of...

Optimal Legal Standards for Refusals to License IP: An Welfare Based Analysis

Posted on October 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yannis S. Katsoulacos, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economic Science of the Athens University of Economics and Business has a forthcoming article on Optimal Legal Standards for Refusals to License IP: An Welfare...

State Aid: What is Possible Under EU Rules ? An Overview

Posted on October 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The EU has posted a memo on its website State Aid: What is Possible Under EU Rules ? An Overview.

State Antitrust Enforcement Handbook, Second Edition

Posted on October 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The prolific ABA Antitrust Section has published the State Antitrust Enforcement Handbook, Second Edition. ABSTRACT: State antitrust law and state attorneys general have become increasingly prominent parts of the antitrust landscape...

Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions

Posted on October 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Patrick Bajari (University of Minnesota - Department of Economics) and Jungwon Yeo (University of Minnesota - Department of Economics graduate student) have written on Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions...

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