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More Airline Price Fixing in Europe

Posted on March 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today's WSJ reports that the European Commission has begun a price fixing probe into Europe-Japan airline routes.

Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? An Empirical Analysis of Metering Price Discrimination

Posted on March 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wesley R. Hartmann of Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Ricard Gil of the University of California, Santa Cruz ask and answer Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? An Empirical...

Intel Battles the European Commission

Posted on March 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Intel has begun the first day of a two day hearing before the European Commission on abuse of dominance. No doubt, the Commission feels empowered by the Court of First Instance's Microsoft decision. HT: Sarah...

Question for Our Readers

Posted on March 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol For those blog readers who take long flights, I will be traveling to the ICN Annual Conference in Kyoto next month. A number of people have reocmmended compression socks to reduce the risk of deep...

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Geographic Deregulation and Competition in the U.S. Banking Industry

Posted on March 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol H. Semih Yildirim, York University - Atkinson School of Administrative Studies and Sunil Mohanty, University of St. Thomas - College of Business bring us Geographic Deregulation and Competition in the U.S. Banking Industry. ABSTRACT: We...

The Challenges of Economic Proof in a Decentralized and Privatized European Competition Policy System: Lessons From the American Experience

Posted on March 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Gavil of Howard Law School brings us another paper on private rights in the EU in his paper The Challenges of Economic Proof in a Decentralized and Privatized European Competition Policy System: Lessons From...

FTC to Host Workshop on Innovations in Health Care Delivery

Posted on March 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to an FTC press release: The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on April 24, 2008, to examine recent trends related to health care delivery. This workshop will bring together representatives of physician...

Article 82 EC: Where Do We Stand After the Microsoft Judgment??

Posted on March 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what will probably be a very interesting presentation, Bo Vesterdorf will speak on Article 82: Where Do We Stand After the Microsoft Judgment?? for the annual Queen Mary University of London School of Law...

Much Ado About Twombly? A Study on the Impact of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly on 12(B)(6) Motions

Posted on March 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In an interesting student note, Kendall Hannon of the Notre Dame Law School undertakes some empirical work in Much Ado About Twombly? A Study on the Impact of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly on 12(B)(6)...

Foxes in the Henhouse: FCC Regulation through Merger Review

Posted on March 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Public choice concerns go hand in hand with issues of regulation. Though antitrust is not immune from public choice, it is far less likely to be guided in its decision-making by such concerns than sector...

Price Discrimination Bans on Dominant Firms

Posted on March 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A new paper Price Discrimination Bans on Dominant Firms by Jan Bouckaert (University of Antwerp - Department of Economics), Hans Degryse (Tilburg University - CentER) and Theon van Dijk (affiliation unknown) suggests that static analysis...

Spanish Competition Agency (CNC) Begins a Cartel Leniency Program

Posted on March 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Continuing a global trend, Spain's CNC has begun a cartel leniency program. Let's hope that this will increase the number of cartels discivered.

Supranational Agency: A Solution for Conflict in International Mergers?

Posted on March 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Poonam Mehra of the University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics develops a theoretical model to suggest transfer payments across countries in international antitrust merger control in Supranational Agency: A Solution for Conflict...

Defining Markets that Involve Multi-Sided Platform Businesses: An Empirical Framework with an Application to Google's Purchase of DoubleClick

Posted on March 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael D. Noel of the University of California, San Diego Department of Economics and David Evans of LECG and University College London Faculty of Law address Defining Markets that Involve Multi-Sided Platform Businesses: An Empirical...

Market Definition in Online Markets

Posted on March 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Baye, the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Economics has some great slides on Market Definition in Online Markets.

Benefits from Private Antitrust Enforcement: An Analysis of Forty Cases

Posted on March 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what is an important addition to antitrust scholarship, Josh Paul Davis, University of San Francisco - School of Law and Robert H. Lande, University of Baltimore Law School have written Benefits from Private Antitrust...

Latest Developments on the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law

Posted on March 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the ICN meeting in Kyoto just a month away in which unilateral conduct will be a topic, we have some new developments on the Chinese Anti-monopoly Law (AML) courtesy of Paul Jones of Jones...

PhD Student Conference This Week at The Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy

Posted on March 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This week will be the first ever international PhD student conference at the Queen Mary, University of London Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy. The schedule of papers is available here.

Shyam Khemani Joins MICRA

Posted on March 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As the Global Competition Review reported yesterday, Shyam Khemani has joined consulting firm MICRA. Shyam retired last month from the World Bank, where he was the competition policy specialist. Shyam has done much good work...

Implementing the Hypothetical Monopolist SSNIP Test with Multi-Product Firms

Posted on March 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Serge Moresi, Steven Salop, and John Woodbury describe how to implement the hypothetical monopolist SSNIP test for market definition in the context of merger cases where firms produce multiple differentiated products in their paper from...

Winner of Tenth Annual Law Student Writing Competition of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law is My Research Assistant

Posted on March 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am pleased to announce that my research assistant, John Henry Kilper, has won first prize in the Tenth Annual Law Student Writing Competition of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. John won the award...

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Speaker Series

Posted on March 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Date Speaker/Paper/Host Feb. 7 Ben Atkinson (Competition Bureau Canada) ?Price Cycling? NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B Feb. 21 Robert Clark (HEC) "Market Structure and the Diffusion of Electronic Banking? NJ Avenue Conference Center Room...

More FTC Senior Departures

Posted on March 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Another week, another significant set of government departures-- the end of an administration tends to have this effect. Jeff Schmidt, the Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition is rumored to be leaving for Linklaters...

An Examination of the Efficiency, Foreclosure, and Collusion Rationales for Vertical Takeovers

Posted on March 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jaideep Shenoy, Georgia State University - Department of Finance, suggests that vertical integration is not anti-competitive in his paper An Examination of the Efficiency, Foreclosure, and Collusion Rationales for Vertical Takeovers...

Materials on European Community Law of Competition

Posted on March 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This past month, Oxford University Press released the 2008 edition of Bellamy & Child: Materials on European Community Law of Competition. Description: This fully up-to-date volume of European Community Law competition materials includes all of...

Improving Critical Loss Analysis

Posted on March 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (both of Berkeley- Economics Department and Haas School of Business respectively) offer two new tests using Critical Loss Analysis to determine if a candidate group of products contains enough substitutes...

DOJ Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Spring Lecture Series

Posted on March 03, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol March 11 (Tues 2-3:30pm) Fan Zhang EAG Dynamic Contract Breach March 18 (Tues 2-3:30pm) Michal Gal Haifa and Georgetown Competition Law in Small Economies April 1 (Tues 2-3:30pm) Julie Mortimer Harvard The Effects of Full-Line...

Market Concentration in the Antitrust Analysis of Horizontal Mergers

Posted on March 02, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonathan Baker of American University's Washington College of Law provides an important contribution to this literature in his piece Market Concentration in the Antitrust Analysis of Horizontal Mergers by providing one stop shopping for those...

Chart Overview of State RPM Laws

Posted on March 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol A very useful chart that provides an overview of state RPM laws is available in the most recent issue of Antitrust Magazine.

Graduate Diploma in Competition Law

Posted on March 01, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The University of Melbourne has a relatively new graduate diploma program in competition law. I strongly encourage prospective students, particularly those in Asia, to consider enrolling in this program. Unlike a number of the graduate...

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