Corporate & Securities Law

Gasoline Price Cycle Drivers: An Australian Case Study

Posted on March 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Harry Bloch Curtin University of Technology - School of Economics and Finance and Nick Wills-Johnson Acil Tasman explore Gasoline Price Cycle Drivers: An Australian Case Study. ABSTRACT: In many retail gasoline markets, prices follow a...

Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report

Posted on March 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin (both Stanford - Econ) provide Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report. ABSTRACT: The field of Industrial Organization has made dramatic advances over the last few decades in developing empirical methods...

International Antitrust Litigation ? Conflict of Laws and Coordination

Posted on March 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the decentralization of competition law enforcement and the development of private damages actions in the European Union as well as with the increasingly international character of antitrust proceedings, there is a growing need for...

Mexican Cartels Under Attack

Posted on March 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Drug cartels are not the only cartels under attack, as this story in The Economist explains. Kudos to Eduardo Perez Mota and his enforcement team at the Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC).

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Networking

Posted on March 07, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol You might wonder who other readers of the blog are. They are government officials, practitioners of economics and law, and professors among others. Network with each other via our Linkedin page, Readers of the Antitrust...

Entry as a Source of Post-Merger Price Discipline

Posted on March 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Elizabeth M. Bailey (NERA) explains Entry as a Source of Post-Merger Price Discipline. Download Antitrust_Insights_Winter 2010 (2) ABSTRACT: Entry?including the threat of entry?is a market dynamic that is critical in evaluating the competitive impact of...

Rethinking Exclusionary Abuses in EU Competition Law

Posted on March 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ekaterina Rousseva (DG Comp) has a new book out on Rethinking Exclusionary Abuses in EU Competition Law. BOOK ABSTRACT: This book offers an original interpretation of the case law on exclusionary abuses under Article 82...

Nine Modest Suggestions for the New EU Commissioner for Competition

Posted on March 05, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Paul Lugard (Royal Phillips Electronics and Tilburg Law) provides Nine Modest Suggestions for the New EU Commissioner for Competition. ABSTRACT: This contribution includes some modest suggestions for areas where the new Commissioner and his staff...

A New Treaty, A New Commissioner, A New Competition Policy?

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christophe Lemaire and Simon Naudin (both Ashurst) ask A New Treaty, A New Commissioner, A New Competition Policy? ABSTRACT: The impulse for change in competition law and policy should not be expected to come either...

Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-Merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chongwoo Choe, Monash University and Chander Shekhar, University of Melbourne explore Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-Merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence. ABSTRACT: We compare the prevailing system of compulsory pre-merger notification with the Australian system of...

The Failed Resurrection of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Einer Elhauge (Harvard Law) has an interesting new article The Failed Resurrection of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory. Download it while it is hot. ABSTRACT: Various arguments attempting to resurrect the single monopoly profit theory...

Excellent New Film on Leniency by the Swedish Competition Authority - A Must See

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Swedish Competition Authority has launched a film about leniency in order to raise awareness of their leniency program. You can see the film here.

Professional Interpretation of the Standard of Proof: An Experimental Test on Merger Regulation

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bruce Lyons (School of Economics and ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia), Gordon Menzies (School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology Sydney) and Daniel Zizzo (School of Economics, ESRC Centre for...

2010 Milton Handler Lecture

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol THE ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INVITES YOU TO THE 2010 MILTON HANDLER LECTURE Professor Handler and the New York City Bar Association...

DOJ Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Spring 2010 Seminar Series

Posted on March 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Economic Analysis Group Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice Date Speaker Topic (Tues 2-3:30pm) Tim Brennan UMD-Baltimore County Exclusion vs. Predation: Drawing Lines Between Easy and Hard Abuse Cases March 30 (Tues 2-3:30pm) James Roberts...

Of Vulnerable Monopolists?: Questionable Innovation in the Standard for Class Certification in Antitrust Cases

Posted on March 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joshua P. Davis, University of San Francisco - School of Law and Eric L. Cramer, Berger & Montague have an interesting new paper titled Of Vulnerable Monopolists?: Questionable Innovation in the Standard for Class Certification...

Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Posted on March 03, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kris James Mitchener and David C. Wheelock have a paper on Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the relationship between the structure...

New Ideas for Limiting Bank Size - Murphy Conference on Corporate Law, Fordham Law School, March 12, 2010

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I will be participating in what looks to be an interesting conference at Fordham on March 12, 2010. New Ideas for Limiting Bank Size Murphy Conference on Corporate Law Fordham Law School March 12, 2010...

Entry Barriers in Retail Trade

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fabiano Schivardi (University of Cagliari) and E. Viviano (Bank of Italy) describe Entry Barriers in Retail Trade. ABSTRACT: The 1998 reform of the Italian retail trade sector delegated the regulation of entry of large stores...

Who Has the Best Global Antitrust/Competition Practice? Chambers Global Rankings Are Out

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol It is time to play up bragging rights. The Chambers Global rankings for are out for antitrust/competition. In the Global Category are: Band 1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Band...

ICN Annual Conference - Istanbul, Turkey

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The 9th Annual Conference of the International Competition Network, will take place in Istanbul from April 27th to April 29th, 2010. The program is available here.

How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Shaun McRea and Frank Wolack (both Stanford) ask and asnwer How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market. ABSTRACT: This paper uses the framework in Wolak (2003a,b and 2007)...

Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden

Posted on March 02, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Johan Lundberg (Department of Economics, Umeå University) and Sophia Lundberg, (Department of Economics, Umeå University) provide Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden. ABSTRACT: From economic theory, it is known that consumer loyalty...

Competition, Innovation and Maintaining Diversity Through Competition Law

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolfgang Kerber, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics has an interesting piece on Competition, Innovation and Maintaining Diversity Through Competition Law. ABSTRACT: The analysis of the advantages of competition as a...

Dynamic price competition with network effects

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luis Cabral (IESE Business School) has posted a paper on Dynamic price competition with network effects. ABSTRACT: I consider a dynamic model of competition between two proprietary networks. Consumers die and are replaced with a...

Unilateral versus Coordinated Effects: Comparing the Impact on Consumer Welfare of Alternative Merger Outcomes

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matt Olczak (CCP- University of East Anglia) has written on Unilateral versus Coordinated Effects: Comparing the Impact on Consumer Welfare of Alternative Merger Outcomes. ABSTRACT: The nature of tacitly collusive behaviour often makes coordination unstable,...

Bertrand competition with non-rigid capacity constraints

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi) offers his thoughts on Bertrand competition with non-rigid capacity constraints. ABSTRACT: We examine a model of Bertrand competition with non-rigid capacity constraints, so that by incurring an...

Looking for a Great Competition Law Job in London: Competition Committee Looking for Chief Legal Adviser

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Job description and salary Closing date Chief Legal Adviser Circa £100,000 We are looking for someone with an excellent track record as a barrister or solicitor with wide experience of a number of areas of...

Brands, Competition and the Law

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Deven R. Desai, Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law explain Brands, Competition and the Law. Brands matter. In modern times, brands and brand management have become...

Earthquake in Chile

Posted on February 28, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As many of you know, I spent this past summer teaching antitrust at the Catholic University of Chile. My family and I read about the disaster yesterday with particular concern for our many friends there....

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