Corporate & Securities Law

Upward Pricing Pressure and Critical Loss Analysis: Response

Posted on February 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joe Farrell (FTC) and Carl Shapiro (DOJ) responjd to the critics in Upward Pricing Pressure and Critical Loss Analysis: Response. ABSTRACT: As members of the Department of Justice and Federal Trace Commission working group that...

The Evolution of Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Over the Last Two Decades

Posted on February 27, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Scott D. Hammond (DOJ) has a speech on The Evolution of Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Over the Last Two Decades.

Criminalisation of Cartel Behaviour

Posted on February 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David King (Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand) explores Criminalisation of Cartel Behaviour. ABSTRACT: This paper considers the case for criminalisation of hard-core cartel behaviour. Two frameworks are applied for considering the issue: retributive justice...

CC Publishes Remedies Review

Posted on February 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The press release is here.

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SEPA, Efficiency, and Payment Card Competition

Posted on February 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wilco Bolt and Heiko Schmiedel (both Bank of the Netherlands) have a new paper on SEPA, Efficiency, and Payment Card Competition. ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the welfare implications of creating a Single Euro Payments Area...

Competition for Long Distance Passenger Rail Services: The Emerging Evidence

Posted on February 26, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Preston University of Southampton- Department of Civic Engineering explores Competition for Long Distance Passenger Rail Services: The Emerging Evidence. ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to review the emerging evidence on competition in...

Reflections on Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC?s Case against Intel

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dan Crane (Michigan Law) provides Reflections on Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC?s Case against Intel. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the policy implications of the FTC's decision to file its enforcement action...

Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Johan Lundberg (Department of Economics, Umeå University) and and Sofia Lundberg, (Department of Economics, Umeå University) have some interesting data on Retailer Choice and Loyalty Schemes - Evidence from Sweden. ABSTRACT: From economic theory, it...

Dynamic Changes in Market Structure and Competition in the Corn and Soybean Seed Sector

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol William W. Wilson and Bruce Dahl (Dept of Agribusiness and Applied Economics - North Dakota State University) offer their thoughts on Dynamic Changes in Market Structure and Competition in the Corn and Soybean Seed Sector....

On factors promoting and hindering entry and exit

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Martin A. Carree (Maastricht University) has thoughts On factors promoting and hindering entry and exit. ABSTRACT: Entry and exit rates can differ widely between industries, between regions, between individuals and over time...

Getting The Deal Through When Time Is Of The Essence: Antitrust Strategies For Time Sensitive Transactions

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law The Mergers & Acquisitions Committee invites you to ?Getting The Deal Through When Time Is Of The Essence: Antitrust Strategies For Time Sensitive Transactions? Date: Wednesday, March 3,...

Entry Selection

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol J.J.A. Kamphorst, Erasmus School of Economics, E. Mendys-Kamphorst, OPTA (The Netherlands Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority), and B. Westbrock, Utrecht School of Economics discuss Entry Selection in a new working paper...

Is Google the Next Microsoft? The European Commission May Think So

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The new Commissioner seems to be proceeding along the lines of the old one with an investigation of potential abuse of dominance by a US tech firm. Stay tuned as I am sure sparks will...

Price-concentration analysis in merger cases with differentiated products

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Walter Beckert Birkbeck College, University of London, IFS and UK Competition Commission and Nicola Mazzarotto UK Competition Commission explain Price-concentration analysis in merger cases with differentiated products. ABSTRACT: This paper considers the empirical assessment of...

Law and Development: The Way Forward or Just Stuck in the Same Place?

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have written a short piece for an online symposium on Law and Development that involved a number of other scholoars. The group included: Tom Ginsburg (U. Chicago Law), Salil Mehra (Temple Law), Katharina Pistor...

Regulation, Generic Competition and Pharmaceutical Prices: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kurt Richard Brekke, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) - Department of Economics, Tor Helge Holmas, Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration, and Odd Rune Straume, University of Minho - Economic...

Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pio Baakey and Vanessa von Schlippenbachz (both DIW and Humboldt University Berlin - Econ) explain Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations. ABSTRACT: This paper examines how delivery tariffs and private quality standards are determined in vertical...

The Antitrust Consumer Welfare Paradox

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Barak Orbach (Arizona Law) has posted the interesting The Antitrust Consumer Welfare Paradox. ABSTRACT: ?Consumer welfare? is the only articulated goal of antitrust law in the United States. It became the governing standard following the...

Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture March 12 Iowa Panelists Announced

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The press release is here. Opening Remarks (9:00 a.m. CST - 9:15 a.m. CST) Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice Roundtable...

Calling All Antitrust/ Competition Law and Economics Professors: Join the ABA Antitrust Section

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This is the first of what will be periodic pleas for greater involvement by the academic community in the US and elsewhere in the ABA Antitrust Section. In my capacity as Vice Chair of the...

Competition, Innovation and Maintaining Diversity Through Competition Law

Posted on February 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolfgang Kerber, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics explains Competition, Innovation and Maintaining Diversity Through Competition Law. ABSTRACT: The analysis of the advantages of competition as a process of parallel experimentation...

The FTC's Anticompetitive Pricing Case Against Intel

Posted on February 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp (Iowa Law) provides his thoughts on The FTC's Anticompetitive Pricing Case Against Intel. ABSTRACT: The FTC?s wide ranging complaint against Intel Corporation indicates that the FTC intends to rely on the ?unfair methods...

Vertical Relations Under Credit Constraints

Posted on February 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Volker Nocke, Department of Economics, University of Oxford - Department of Economics and John E. Thanassoulis, University of Oxford - Department of Economics explain Vertical Relations Under Credit Constraints. ABSTRACT: We model the impact credit...

Market Definition with Shock Analysis

Posted on February 23, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Øystein Daljord, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Lars Sorgard, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and Øyvind Thomassen, explain Market Definition with Shock Analysis. ABSTRACT: The SSNIP test for market definition requires...

Most Downloaded New Antitrust Papers on SSRN for December 23, 2009 to February 21, 2010

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Most Downloaded New Antitrust Papers on SSRN for December 23, 2009 to February 21, 2010. Herb Hovenkamp makes the list twice and Barak Orbach tops the list. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 133 The Image...

Antirust Law: Merger Control and Dynamic Market Processes

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Diego Arce Jofre, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Grupo de Investigación Sectores Económicos Regulados, analyzes Antirust Law: Merger Control and Dynamic Market Processes. ABSTRACT: In the antitrust law, measurements of merger control are the result...

Competition, Contracts, and Innovation

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Simpson, FTC and Christopher J. Metcalf, FTC address Competition, Contracts, and Innovation in a new working paper. ABSTRACT: Our paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between innovation and market power by considering...

Does a Tougher Competition Policy Reduce or Promote Investment?

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Afonso Costa, and Pedro P. Barros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Econ ask Does a Tougher Competition Policy Reduce or Promote Investment? ABSTRACT: The question of how interventions from the Competition Authority (CA) affect investment is not...

Free Movement of Judgments: Increasing Deterrence of International Cartels through Jurisdictional Reliance

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Institute of Global Law and the UCL Centre for Law and Economics are delighted to present a lecture by Prof. Michal Gal, Haifa University on Free Movement of Judgments: Increasing Deterrence of International...

Misplaced Fears in the Legislative Battle Over Affordable Biotech Drugs

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David E. Adelman, University of Texas School of Law and Christopher M. Holman, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law describe Misplaced Fears in the Legislative Battle Over Affordable Biotech Drugs. ABSTRACT: Much...

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