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Antitrust Law Faculty Moves 2008

Posted on April 23, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol April 24 Version Below are the list of US permanent antitrust law faculty moves for 2008. Name New School Shubha Ghosh University of Wisconsin Max Huffman University of Indiana - Indianapolis Daniel Sokol University of...

Rambus Overturned by DC Circuit

Posted on April 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to the NY Times, the DC Circuit has overturned Rambus. I am surprised, as I thought that the FTC had a strong case. The decision itself can be found here. HT: Paul Jones

Harris to Jones Day

Posted on April 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Normally we do not report on practitioner moves but this one is a biggie. Steve Harris, the leading Asian antitrust practitioner in the United States, has made a lateral move to Jones Day where he...

Compensation Function and Deterrence Effects of Private Actions for Damages: The Case of Antitrust Damage Suits

Posted on April 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Francesco Denozza and Luca Toffoletti of the University of Milan Faculty of Jurisprudence discuss Compensation Function and Deterrence Effects of Private Actions for Damages: The Case of Antitrust Damage Suits in their latest paper...

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The Microsoft Case: The IT Industry and the Future of EC Competition Law

Posted on April 22, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Microsoft Case: The IT Industry and the Future of EC Competition Law University of Birmingham Conference Programme 15.30 ? 16:00 Registration and coffee 16:00-16:10 Welcome and introduction Chair: Dr Luca Rubini (IEL, Birmingham Law...

Cartel Code Attributes and Cartel Performance: An Industry-Level Analysis of the National Industrial Recovery Act

Posted on April 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jason Taylor, an economic historian at Central Michigan University undertakes some nice historical detective work in his article Cartel Code Attributes and Cartel Performance: An Industry-Level Analysis of the National Industrial Recovery Act...

Loyalty Discounts and Naked Exclusion

Posted on April 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge of Harvard Law School discusses Loyalty Discounts and Naked Exclusion in his latest working paper and takes a contrary approach to the commonly held views of this subject. ABSTRACT: Loyalty discounts are agreements...

Trends in Retail Competition: Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy

Posted on April 21, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fourth Symposium on Trends in Retail Competition: Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy Tuesday 20 May 2008 12h30 Venue: St Catherine's College Mary Sunley Room Organised by Centre for Competition Law & Policy Private label...

Ghosh to University of Wisconsin

Posted on April 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol It is with great pleasure that I announce that co-blogger Shubha Ghosh has accepted a lateral offer at the University of Wisconsin Law School. This is a wonderful development for Shubha (except for the cold...

Should the Government Prosecute Monopolies?

Posted on April 20, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice Stucke of the University of Tennessee Law School asks perhaps the fundamental policy question of antitrust, Should the Government Prosecute Monopolies? Given Maurice's post-Chicago leanings, the answer is clear--yes! ABSTRACT: In the past few...

The Language of Sex and Antitrust

Posted on April 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Something in English that has not translated into other languages has been the sexualized language of antitrust- ?naked? and ?hard-core? cartels (although perhaps one also could make the case for ?cheap talk?). I will omit...

Issue 4 of Competition Survey Journal is Out

Posted on April 19, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Issue 4 of th COMPETITION SURVEY: STUDIES AND RESEARCHES RELATING TO ECONOMIC COMPETITION, by the Competition Council of Romania is now out and can be downloaded below. As my grandmother (my mother's mother) was born...

New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (ISCR) Looking For a New Executive Director

Posted on April 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol NZ INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF COMPETITION AND REGULATION Pipitea Campus Executive Director The Institute for the Study of Competition & Regulation is New Zealand's leading centre for research on the economics of competition, regulation,...

The Political Economy of European Merger Control: Evidence Using Stock Market Data

Posted on April 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tomaso Duso (Humboldt University Berlin), Damien J. Neven (Graduate Institute of International Studies and DG Competition), and Lars-Hendrik R�ller (European School of Management and Technology) discuss The Political Economy of European Merger Control: Evidence Using...

Can Standard-Setting Lead to Exploitative Abuse? A Dissonant View on Patent Hold-Up, Royalty Stacking and the Meaning of FRAND

Posted on April 18, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Miguel Rato and Damien Geradin (both of Howry though Damien also heads the College of Europe's Competition Law Center) ask Can Standard-Setting Lead to Exploitative Abuse? A Dissonant View on Patent Hold-Up, Royalty Stacking and...

Facilitating Practices and Concerted Action Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

Posted on April 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My soon to be colleague at UF Bill Page (we move next month to Gainesville) has posted a new working paper, Facilitating Practices and Concerted Action Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. ABSTRACT: Successful...

Second Annual Conference on Competition Law, Economics and Policy in South Africa

Posted on April 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Second Annual Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal and Mandela Institute Conference on Competition Law, Economics and Policy in South Africa will be held on Friday, 6 June 2008 at the Chalsty University of the Witwatersrand...

Abolishing the Price Squeeze as a Theory of Antitrust Liability

Posted on April 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Greg Sidak of Georgetown Law School and Criterion Economics suggests that the US Supreme Court should undertake an effort at Abolishing the Price Squeeze as a Theory of Antitrust Liability. ABSTRACT: A ?price squeeze,? or...

Oxford Centre for Competition Law & Policy Round Table Discussion - Article 82 EC

Posted on April 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oxford's Centre for Competition Law & Policy will host a Round Table Discussion on Article 82 EC. Speakers include: Dr Gunnar Niels, OXERA, on ?Economic effects-based tests and legal (un)certainty under Article 82? Dr Ioannis...

Post Merger Product Repositioning

Posted on April 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maybe mergers are not as anti-competitive as we might otherwise assume. This is a finding in an excellent new article by Amit Gandhi (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Luke Froeb (Owen Graduate School of...

Competition Policy in Auctions and 'Bidding Markets'

Posted on April 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Klemperer of University of Oxford's Department of Economics has a wonderful literature review in the HANDBOOK OF ANTITRUST ECONOMICS (P. Buccirossi, ed., MIT Press, Forthcoming) on Competition Policy in Auctions and 'Bidding Markets'...

The ICN Recommended Practices for Merger Process: Why They Matter

Posted on April 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bill Blumenthal, the General Counsel of the FTC, has a short speech worth reading titled The ICN Recommended Practices for Merger Process: Why They Matter. ?

Most Interesting Take-Away From Day 1 of the ICN Meeting

Posted on April 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I discovered that Greenland now has a competition authority. Antitrust practitioners, add this to your list of jurisdictions for client counseling. I would love to hear the justification for this agency. A number of years...

Revenue Sharing Distortions and Vertical Integration in the Movie Industry

Posted on April 13, 2008
Posted by D.?Daniel Sokol Ricard?Gil ?Economics at University of California Santa Cruz? writes on?Revenue Sharing Distortions and Vertical Integration in the Movie Industry. ABSTRACT: I analyze how variation in firm boundaries affect economic outcomes in the movie industry...

ICN Meeting in?Kyoto

Posted on April 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am jetlagged and in Kyoto for the ICN meeting. It will be interesting to gauge agency and practitioner thoughts on the Chinese AML.?In flight movies were excellent. I watched There Will be Blood, I...

Fulbright Opportunities for Teaching/Research Abroad

Posted on April 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A number of interesting opportunities for research or teaching abroad are available for academic year 2009-2010 via the Fulbright program for US based economics and law faculty. There are also opportunities for non-US based scholars...

European and American Leniency Programmes: Two Models Towards Convergence?

Posted on April 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicolo Zingales of the European Policy Centre asks about European and American Leniency Programmes: Two Models Towards Convergence? ABSTRACT: This paper compares the different approach that United States and Europe have embraced in designing their...

Irish Competition Authority Publishes Study of the Grocery Sector

Posted on April 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This week the Irish Competition Authority published a study of its grocery sector. According to the press release: The first report, A Description of the Structure and Operation of Grocery Retailing and Wholesaling in Ireland:...

TOP 10 Most Downloaded New Papers on SSRN for Antitrust Law & Policy

Posted on April 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol For the first time ever, the most downloaded antitrust paper is by a current law student. TOP 10 Most Downloaded New Papers on SSRN for Antitrust Law & Policy February 11, 2008 to April 11,...

Report on Criminalization of Cartels Blocked by Australian Treasury

Posted on April 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We know that when firms collude and operate in secret, they are up to no good. What I did not expect was the government agencies might agree not to publish a report on cartels. Yet,...

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