Corporate & Securities Law

Call For Papers: DOJ Workshop on Airline Competition

Posted on April 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In October 2008, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice will host a one-day workshop on recent developments in airline antitrust and competition research to mark the 30-year anniversary of airline deregulation in...

IBA International Conference

Posted on April 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The IBA International Conference is immidiately after the ICN annual conference and promises to be an excellent recap of the ICN meeting along with further insights by top practitioners, government officials and academics. Thursday 17...

Take Two: Stare Decisis in Antitrust - The Per Se Rule Against Horizontal Price-Fixing

Posted on April 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Randal Picker of the University of Chicago Law School has posted Take Two: Stare Decisis in Antitrust - The Per Se Rule Against Horizontal Price-Fixing. ABSTRACT: In this essay prepared for the American Bar Association's...

Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008

Posted on April 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a potentially significant (and for the most part positive) change for the FTC, Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced the Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008. BNA has a report...

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ICN Annual Meeting in Kyoto

Posted on April 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Next week (April 14-16) is the ICN annual meeting of competition agencies in lovely Kyoto, Japan. I will serve as a rapporteur for the event. I have included the meeting agenda. Download draft_agenda.doc

Assessing Excessive Pricing: The Case of Flat Steel in South Africa

Posted on April 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Simon Roberts, Chief Economist, Competition Commission of South Africa, and Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand provides an interesting examination of Assessing Excessive Pricing: The Case of Flat Steel in South Africa...

Is There Consensus of the Antitrust Treatment of Single Firm Conduct

Posted on April 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol William Comanor of UCLA asks Is There Consensus of the Antitrust Treatment of Single Firm Conduct, which is forthcoming in the University of Wisconsin Law Review. Download comanor.doc ABSTRACT: Enforcement officials and commentators have suggested...

Technical Advisors Wanted in Pakistan

Posted on April 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pakistan is looking for two technical assistance advisors, to be based in Islamabad for about one year, each for a compensation package of about $200,000 per year. Anyone interested should reply to Chairman Khalid at...

EU Private Rights of Action Background Study

Posted on April 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol For those of you who breezed through the short White Paper Download eu_pvt_rights_of_action_white_paper_408.pdf (11 pages), the background study Download eu_pvt. Rights of Action background study 4-08.pdf (671 pages) should give you something to read this...

Summary of FTC Bureau of Competition Activity FY 2004- FY 2008

Posted on April 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol One of the key outputs from the ABA Spring Meeting two weeks ago (I did not make it as we were house hunting in Gainesville) was the excellent summary of the FTC's Bureau of Competition...

Microsoft: Predator or Prey?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert Hahn of AEI's Reg-Markets Center and Peter Passell of the Milken Institute ponder Microsoft: Predator or Prey? In February, the European Competition Commission fined Microsoft $1.35 billion in what was just the latest in...

First Thoughts on the European White Paper on Damages-- Enter the White Paper for Damages Actions: A First Selective Appraisal

Posted on April 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Assimakis Komninos (White & Case) has published an analysis of the European Commission's White Paper on damages titled Enter the White Paper for Damages Actions: A First Selective Appraisal. ABSTRACT: On April 3, 2008, the...

International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition Formed

Posted on April 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition has been formed. According to its mission statement the organization is ?to promote and maintain a healthy competition culture around the world by coalition building among...

An Analysis of Price-based Tests of Antitrust Market Delineation

Posted on April 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Patrick J. Coe (Department of Economics, Carleton University) and David Krause (Economic Analysis, Bell Canada) undertake An Analysis of Price-based Tests of Antitrust Market Delineation in their newest article. ABSTRACT: There are well-known theoretical concerns...

Georgiev's Article on EU Settlements Published by Utah Law Review

Posted on April 04, 2008
posted by Shubha Ghosh Last week we posted that George Stephanov Georgiev's article on US style antitrust settlements in the EU won Third Annual Swope Antitrust Prize, sponsored by Jones Day. We inadvertently failed to include a link to the...

The Law and Economics of Innovation: Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation

Posted on April 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol George Mason University School of Law and Microsoft Corporation announce the second in an annual series of conferences The Law and Economics of Innovation: Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation May 15, 2008, Arlington, VA...

The Fundamental Goal of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not Increasing Efficiency

Posted on April 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert Lande (University of Balimore Law) and John Kirkwood (Seattle University Law) argue The Fundamental Goal of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not Increasing Efficiency. ABSTRACT: The conventional wisdom in the antitrust community is that the purpose...

Lessons From the Recent Stock Exchange Merger Activity

Posted on April 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Kokkoris (OFT) and Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal (Warwick School of Law) offer Lessons From the Recent Stock Exchange Merger Activity. ABSTRACT: Stock markets across the globe have been the subject of merger discussions following pressure to...

Competition Law Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights

Posted on April 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Heimler, Chief Economist of Italy's Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato discusses Competition Law Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: Antitrust violations in the field of intellectual property...

Paulson's Financial Reorg-- Should We Rethink the Structure of US Antitrust Agencies?

Posted on March 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has urged a substantial and fundamental reorganization of American oversight of the US financial system. Here is the report, and here's the text of Paulson's speech. I wonder if it might...

Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions

Posted on March 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol An interesting new paper is Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions by Thomas J. Holmes (Department of Economics, University of Minnesota), David K. Levine (Department of Economics Washington University), James...

The Implementation of the European Commission's Merger Regulation 2004: An Empirical Analysis

Posted on March 31, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Borja Martinez Fernández (Staffordshire University), Iraj Hashi (Staffordshire University) and Marc Jegers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) present some interesting findings in their article The Implementation of the European Commission's Merger Regulation 2004: An Empirical Analysis...

The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

Posted on March 30, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton Department of Economics) and Daniel Hosken (FTC) bring us The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies. ABSTRACT: In this paper we propose a method to evaluate...

Effective Competition? Only ? ? Google/DoubleClick and other Recent ECMR Controversies

Posted on March 29, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Effective Competition? Only ? ? Google/DoubleClick and other Recent ECMR Controversies Brussels 25 April 2008 Fondation Universitaire Institute for European Legal Studies, LL.M in Competition and IP Law,University of Liège Facultés Universitaires St Louis, Bruxelles...

The Role of Economic Analysis in Intellectual Property Law: Implications for Competition Law

Posted on March 28, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Role of Economic Analysis in Intellectual Property Law: Implications for Competition Law Tuesday 6 May 2008 4.30pm - 7.30pm University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Programme 4.30pm Registration in the South Cloisters,...

Eighth Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium-Friday April 25

Posted on March 27, 2008
Posted by Shubha Ghosh The Institute for Consumer Antitrust at Loyola Chicago Law School will be hosting the Eighth Annual Antitrust Colloquium on Friday April 25, and Professor Spencer Waller has put together another stimulating program. Papers include Professor Maurice...

University of Georgia Conference on "Patent Failure"

Posted on March 26, 2008
Posted by Shubha Ghosh Professor James Bessen and Michael Meurer have recently published "Patent Failure" available from Princeton University Press. This weekend The University of Georgia is hosting a day long symposium devoted to the book. This event promises to...

Congratulations to this year's winner of the Jones Day Swope Prize

Posted on March 26, 2008
Posted by Shubha Ghosh The following was received yesterday: Young London-Based Lawyer Wins Jones Day's $10,000 Swope Antitrust Writing Prize WASHINGTON, March 25 -- A 2007 Yale Law graduate practicing in the UK has won the Third Annual William E....

$10,000 Third Annual William E. Swope Antitrust Prize Awarded

Posted on March 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A 2007 Yale Law graduate practicing in the UK has won the Third Annual William E. Swope Antitrust Prize for a paper analyzing the recent introduction of U.S.-style antitrust settlements in the European Union. The...

Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy

Posted on March 25, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp offers an insightful examination of Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy in a new article for the Alabama Law Review. ABSTRACT: Antitrust policy and the IP laws are both concerned with practices...

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