Corporate & Securities Law

Bates White?s Seventh Annual Antitrust Conference

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bates White?s Seventh Annual Antitrust Conference PANEL SESSIONS Merger Review and Enforcement Under New Guidelines Richard Feinstein, Director, Bureau of Competition, FTC Janet L. McDavid, Partner, Hogan Lovells Bruce J. Prager, Partner, Latham & Watkins...

Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cory S. Capps, Bates White, LLC, Guy David, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton, and Dennis W. Carlton, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, ask Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?...

Settlement as a Way Out in Hard-Core Cartel Investigations in Brazil: Practice and Problems

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol André Marques Gilberto (Marques Gilberto & Oliveira Felix) and Priscila Brolio Gonçalves (Vella Pugliese Buosi & Guidoni) have a short new piece on Settlement as a Way Out in Hard-Core Cartel Investigations in Brazil: Practice...

Happy Shavuot 2010

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tonight begins Shavuot, the Jewish celebration of God giving the law (see here) to the people of Israel. With a major holiday (one of the three pilgrimage holidays to Jerusalem along with Passover and Sukkot/Feast...

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Vertical Integration and Patent Licensing in Upstream and Downstream Markets

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fehmi Bouguezzi (LEGI and Faculty of Management and Economic Sciences of Tunis) and Moez EL ELJ (LEGI - Laboratory of Economics and Industrial Management EPT - Polytechnic School of Tunisia ISG - High Institute of...

Graduation

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol On Friday I gave the faculty address for the law school graduation (I was the student choice). I gave the students a sense that even in a world that is full of tumult, there are...

Dynamic Bertrand Oligopoly

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrew Ledvina and Ronnie Sircar (both ORFE Department, Princeton University) describe Dynamic Bertrand Oligopoly. ABSTRACT: We study continuous time Bertrand oligopolies in which a small number of firms producing similar goods compete with one another...

Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rafael Moner, José J. Sempere, Pedro Cantos, and Oscar Álvarez (all Department of Economic Analysis and ERI-CES, University of Valencia) discuss Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport. ABSTRACT: This paper develops a theoretical...

4th International Conference of IMEDIPA - May 21-22, Nicosia, Cyprus

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol 4th International Conference of IMEDIPA - May 21-22, Nicosia, Cyprus. Conference details are below. Download IMEDIPA_Cyprus

Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Hector Perez-Saiz (University of Chicago) discusses Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry. ABSTRACT: In many industries, firms usually have two choices when expanding into...

Department of Justice and USDA Announce Schedule and Panelists for Agriculture Workshop in Alabama

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the schedule and panelists for the second joint public workshop on competition and regulatory issues in agriculture, which will be held on...

Behavioral Antitrust

Posted on May 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Amanda P. Reeves, Federal Trade Commission and Maurice E. Stucke, University of Tennessee College of Law have a new paper on Behavioral Antitrust. ABSTRACT: Competition policy is entering a new age. Interest in competition laws...

PPI Remittal Decision Report and Press release published

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally decided that consumers will benefit from the introduction of a point-of-sale prohibition for all forms of payment protection insurance (PPI), with the exception of retail PPI...

Competition Policy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Assessment

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paolo Buccirossi (LEAR), Lorenzo Ciari (LEAR and EUI), Tomaso Duso (Humboldt University Berlin and WZB), Giancarlo Spagnolo (University of Rome Tor Vergata SITE, EIEF, CEPR), and Cristiana Vitale (LEAR) have an interesting paper on Competition...

An Introduction to Arbitration and Competition Law: Troubled Waters on the Way to a Brave New World

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Conor C. Talbot, European University Institute - Department of Law provides An Introduction to Arbitration and Competition Law: Troubled Waters on the Way to a Brave New World. ABSTRACT: Arbitration and competition law are quite...

My brother is recognized by the Financial Times for His Superior Financial Modeling

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol There was a dinner that the FT hosted last night in New York that recognized top research equity analysts. My brother Ariel was among those recognized. See here.

Collusive Networks in Market-Sharing Agreements Under the Presence of an Antitrust Authority

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Flavia Roldan, Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business discusses Collusive Networks in Market-Sharing Agreements Under the Presence of an Antitrust Authority. ABSTRACT: This article studies how the presence of an antitrust authority affects market-sharing agreements...

CALL FOR PAPERS: THIRD ANNUAL FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION & NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MICROECONOMICS CONFERENCE

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD ANNUAL FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION & NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MICROECONOMICS CONFERENCE November 18 and 19, 2010 Washington, D.C. The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics, Northwestern University's Searle Center on Law, Regulation and...

Testing for Asymmetric Pricing Behaviour in Irish and UK Petrol and Diesel Markets

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bermingham, Colin (Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland) and O? Brien, Derry (Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland) describe Testing for Asymmetric Pricing Behaviour in Irish and UK Petrol and Diesel...

The Impact of Vertical Integration and Outsourcing on Firm Efficiency: Evidence from the Italian Machine Tool Industry

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto (DISA, Faculty of Economics, Trento University) analyze The Impact of Vertical Integration and Outsourcing on Firm Efficiency: Evidence from the Italian Machine Tool Industry. ABSTRACT: In this paper we made...

Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Horst Raff (Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Department of Economics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), and Joachim Wagner (Institute of Economics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany) explore Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application...

Product Quality, Product Price, and Share Dynamics in the German Compact Car Market

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Uwe Cantner (School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), Jens J. Krüger (Technical University Darmstadt, Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften), and Rene Söllner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, DFG-RTG "The Economics of Innovative Change") discuss Product...

Collapse of BA Trial Risks Undermining Cartel Enforcement

Posted on May 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andreas Stephan (University of East Anglia) has an excellent post on how theCollapse of BA Trial Risks Undermining Cartel Enforcement. It is worth reading.

Spatial competition and cross-border shopping

Posted on May 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Brian Knight (Brown University ) and Nathan Schiff (University of Bristish Columbia) explore Spatial competition and cross-border shopping. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets...

Harmful competition in the insurance markets

Posted on May 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Giuseppe De Feo (Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde) and Jean Hindriks (Department of Economics and CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium) have posted Harmful competition in the insurance markets. ABSTRACT: There is a general...

Global Antitrust Enforcement & Compliance Summit

Posted on May 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Global Antitrust Enforcement & Compliance Summit An Advanced Forum to Address Increased International Agency Cooperation & Current Compliance Challenges Facing Antitrust Counsel Tuesday, July 20 to Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Westin Washington, Washington, DC, United...

Recent developments in Dutch hospitals; How does competition impact on inpatient care?

Posted on May 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sylvia Meijer, Rudy Douven, and Bernard van den Berg (all CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) ask about Recent developments in Dutch hospitals; How does competition impact on inpatient care? ABSTRACT: The aim of...

Branching Deregulation and Merger Optimality

Posted on May 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ana Lozano-Vivas (Department of Economic Theory, Universidad de Málaga), Miguel A. Meléndez-Jímenez (Department of Economic Theory, Universidad de Málaga), amd Antonio J. Morales (Department of Economic Theory, Universidad de Málaga) discuss Branching Deregulation and Merger...

Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets

Posted on May 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michiel Bijlsma (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis), Jan Boone (Tilburg Law and Economics Center), and Gijsbert Zwart (Tilburg Law and Economics Center) explore Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets...

Antitrust and the Changing Landscape of the Information Technology Sector

Posted on May 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antitrust and the Changing Landscape of the Information Technology Sector Location British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5JP Participants Speakers include: Simon Baxter, Clifford Chance LLP...

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