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Frictions and Sticking Points: Applying the Textbook Model to the Analysis of Cost Pass-Through in Indirect Purchaser Class Actions

Posted on February 17, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Johnson and Greg Leonard, Vice Presidents in NERA?s Washington, DC and San Francisco offices, respectively, take a close look at how firms set their prices and find that in the real world, changes in...

Dealing with Cartel Risk: Cartels, Leniency and Settlements in an Increasingly Complex Environment

Posted on February 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Dealing with Cartel Risk: Cartels, Leniency and Settlements in an Increasingly Complex Environment conference on February 27, 2008 will bring a number of leading expert practitioners to discuss the latest in cartel issues...

Comment on the EC's Pharmaceutical Dawn Raids

Posted on February 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Susan Creighton and Scott Russell of law firm Wilson Sonsini provide a Comment on the EC's Pharmaceutical Dawn Raids. ABSTRACT: The pharmaceutical industry remains under close examination by antitrust enforcers on both sides of the...

Review of UK Competition Commission Merger Guidelines: Call for Submissions

Posted on February 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UK Competition Commission has launched a review of its guidelines for merger references (Merger References: Competition Commission Guidelines, CC2) with a deadline of March 31. See here for details.

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Safe Harbors for Quantity Discounts and Bundling

Posted on February 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Carlton (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business ) and Michael Waldman (Cornell University Johnson School of Business) take issue with the AMC Report as it deals with bundling in Safe Harbors for Quantity...

Twombley, Leegin and the Reshaping of Antitrust

Posted on February 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Randy Picker of the University of Chicago Law School has come out with Twombley, Leegin and the Reshaping of Antitrust. ABSTRACT: This paper considers the four antitrust decisions in the Supreme Court's 2006 Term. It...

Deadline for $10,000 Compass Lexecon Prize Approaching

Posted on February 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Compass Lexecon Prizes is soon approaching (February 29, 2008). There are separate prizes for faculty ($10,000) and graduate students ($5,000) for "economists whose papers make the most significant...

BIICL International Cartels Conference

Posted on February 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) will hold an International Cartels Conference on February 26 in London. Confirmed speakers include: Simon Williams, Office of Fair Trading Carolyn Galbreath, Irish Competition Authority Michael...

Unilateral Effects Analysis and Litigation Workshop

Posted on February 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The transcript and podcast of the FTC's Unilateral Effects Analysis and Litigation Workshop held yesterday are now on the FTC website .

International Antitrust and Monopolization

Posted on February 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luke Froeb of Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management provides a podcast interview on his newest paper on the EU Microsoft decision and antitrust in India and China. One of Luke's best insights in the interview...

Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement

Posted on February 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Zhijun Chen, University of East Anglia - Centre for Competition Policy, Zhejiang University - Department of Economics takes a stab at creating optimal cartel enforcement policy in his paper Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement...

The Economics of Article 82 Reform

Posted on February 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Oxford Competition Centre is hosting a lecture on The Economics of Article 82 Reform by Helen Jenkins of Oxera Consulting.

Role of Economics in Antitrust

Posted on February 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Sedona Conference will host a tele-seminar on the Role of Economics in Antitrust on February 13, 2008 from 03:00pm - 04:30pm EST. Topics to be covered include: Applying Fed. R. Evid. 702 to expert...

Buyer and Seller Power in Grocery Retailing: Evidence from Italy

Posted on February 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol On one of my favorite topics of supermarkets, a new paper by Monica Giulietti of Aston University Business School examines Buyer and Seller Power in Grocery Retailing: Evidence from Italy. ABSTRACT: This work investigates the...

Australian Consumer and Competition Commission Has Issued its Draft Merger Guidelines 2008 for Public Comment

Posted on February 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Details are here. One important item that the press release mentions is the following,"The Draft Merger Guidelines 2008 do not represent a new approach by the ACCC. The competition test is the same and analysis...

Beyond Microsoft: Intellectual Property, Peer Production and the Law's Concern with Market Dominance

Posted on February 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Is it just me or does a quarter of recent antitrust scholarship seem to be about Microsoft? The latest entry in this literature is Beyond Microsoft: Intellectual Property, Peer Production and the Law's Concern with...

Best 40 Under 40 in Antitrust/Competition Law

Posted on February 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Review is running perhaps the most important survey in terms of bragging rights- the 40 Best People under 40 in Antitrust/Competition Law. As they explain, "Every five years Global Competition Review runs...

European Competition Policy in the Age of Globalisation ? Towards a Global Competition Order?

Posted on February 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DG Comp has put up a speech that Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, gave yesterday at the First Symposium in Innsbruck, Forschungsinstitut f�r Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb (FIW) titled European Competition Policy in the...

Collusion in Vertical Relations Under Article 81 EC

Posted on February 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ioannis Lianos of the Faculty of Laws, University College London discusses Collusion in Vertical Relations Under Article 81 EC in his latest paper. ABSTRACT: The paper's starting point is that EC competition law does not...

FTC Unilateral Effects Workshop

Posted on February 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yesterday's DOJ/FTC workshop on technical assistance was really great (particularly from comments by Bill Kovacic, Eleanor Fox, Jim Rill, Michal Gal and Angel Lopez). While at the FTC building, I was reminded that next week....

What is the Right Balance Between Regulation and Competition Policy?

Posted on February 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CCP Fourth Annual Conference, 7-8 July 2008 What is the Right Balance Between Regulation and Competition Policy? The 2008 Annual Conference will explore the boundaries of competition policy, and the appropriate balance between regulation and...

Areeda, Epithets, and Essential Facilities

Posted on February 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Spencer Waller at Chicago Loyola Law School takes a new look at essential facilities (which, as I read Trinko, is almost totally dead in US antitrust jurisprudence) in his article Areeda, Epithets, and Essential Facilities.....

Women in Antitrust Networking Opportunity and Panel Discussion

Posted on February 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section will hold the first gathering of the WOMEN?S ANTITRUST NETWORK for a PANEL DISCUSSION Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 6pm Competition Policy Associates Conference Center 1101 K Street, NW, Washington DC...

Did Mandatory Unbundling Achieve Its Purpose? Empirical Evidence from Five Countries

Posted on February 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jerry Hausman (Department of Economics - MIT) and Greg Sidak (Georgetown Law) ask Did Mandatory Unbundling Achieve Its Purpose? Empirical Evidence from Five Countries. ABSTRACT: In this article, we examine the rationales offered by telecommunications...

More Money for DOJ and FTC

Posted on February 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today's BNA reports that the new proposed FY2009 Bush budget would increase the funding of the DOJ and FTC.

The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse

Posted on February 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bruce Lyons of the University of East Anglia explains The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse. ABSTRACT: Monopoly pricing is a textbook market failure that is taught in the first year of any economics...

The Microsoft Judgment: Article 82 Revisited?

Posted on February 05, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Denis Waelbroeck of Ashurst has some interesting thoughts on the meaning of The Microsoft Judgment: Article 82 Revisited? ABSTRACT: The judgment of the European Court of First Instance in Microsoft raises several issues. In this...

This Week's Events

Posted on February 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am off tomorrow to DC. I will testify at the DOJ/FTC workshop on international technical assistance titled 2008 International Technical Assistance Workshop: Charting the Future Course of International Technical Assistance at the U...

Handbook of Antitrust Economics

Posted on February 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol One of the most important edited volumes to have on your bookshelves is the forthcoming Handbook of Antitrust Economics edited by Paolo Buccirossi. ABSTRACT: Over the past twenty years, economic theory has begun to play...

Triggering Inspections Ex Officio: Moving Beyond a Passive EU Cartel Policy

Posted on February 04, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hans W. Friederiszick and Frank P. Maier-Rigaud provide us a normative assessment of EU cartel policy in Triggering Inspections Ex Officio: Moving Beyond a Passive EU Cartel Policy. ABSTRACT: The implementation of leniency programs is...

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