Corporate & Securities Law

Price Controls and Consumer Surplus

Posted on December 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeremy Bulow (Stanford - Graduate School of Business) and Paul Klemperer (Oxford - Econ) provide thoughts on Price Controls and Consumer Surplus. ABSTRACT: The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare in perfect...

Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence

Posted on December 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph A. Clougherty (WZB - Econ) has an interesting paper on Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence. ABSTRACT: Motivated by the general lack of empirical scholarship concerning the cross-national environment for competition...

Regional Competition Law Agreements: An Important Step for Antitrust Enforcement

Posted on December 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michal Gal (Haifa - Law) has an interesting new paper on Regional Competition Law Agreements: An Important Step for Antitrust Enforcement. ABSTRACT: In the past two decades the number of jurisdictions that adopted a competition...

Merger Control and the Rule of Law

Posted on December 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol R.A.A. Khan, Free University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law and Gareth T. Davies, Free University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law are concerned about Merger Control and the Rule of Law. ABSTRACT: This article...

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Antitrust and Innovation: Framing Baselines in the Google Book Search Settlement

Posted on December 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Randy Picker, U. Chicago - Law, explains Antitrust and Innovation: Framing Baselines in the Google Book Search Settlement. ABSTRACT: The Google Book Search Settlement has received a great deal of attention. In response to opposition,...

On Polarized Prices and Costly Sequential Search

Posted on December 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ruth G. Gilgenbach (SMU - Econ) writes On Polarized Prices and Costly Sequential Search. ABSTRACT: This paper presents a homogenous goods duopoly model of costly sequential consumer search with three classes of consumers: costless searchers;...

Post Doctoral Research Fellow at UEA Centre for Competition Policy

Posted on December 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ESRC CENTRE FOR COMPETITION POLICY Post Doctoral Research Fellow ? Ref: RA625 £29,704 to £35,469 per annum The Centre is a focus of research into Competition and Regulation across a range...

Antitrust Law in China, Korea and Vietnam

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Recently out is Antitrust Law in China, Korea and Vietnam by Mark Furse (Glascow - Law). BOOK ABSTRACT: Following China's entry into the WTO in September 2001, it has been keen to establish itself among...

Collective Dominance In Canada: A New Direction

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anita Banicevic & Mark Katz (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP)explore Collective Dominance In Canada: A New Direction. ABSTRACT: The October issue of Global Competition Policy contained an informative series of articles discussing the concept...

Senator Orrin Hatch Releases His New Chanukah Song (I am Serious)

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol If Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan can pen a Christmas Album, then why not the opposite? Senator Orin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah (and a Mormon), has just released his first Chanukah song. The...

2010 WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Max Planck Research School For Competition and Innovation & The Professorship for Intellectual Property ETH Zurich 2010 WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION...

EU Cartel Fining Laws and Policies in Urgent Need of Reform

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Karl Hofstetter (University of Zurich) expressess concern that EU Cartel Fining Laws and Policies in Urgent Need of Reform. ABSTRACT: The criticisms against the cartel fining policies of the European Commission are mounting. Feeling the...

More Antitrust, More Problems

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ronn Cass (former Dean of BU Law) writes in Forbes on More Antitrust, More Problems.

Collusion in Experimental Bertrand Duopolies with Convex Costs: The Role of Information and Cost Asymmetry

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cédric Argenton, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University - Econ, and Wieland Müller, Tilburg - Econ undertake work in Collusion in Experimental Bertrand Duopolies with Convex Costs: The Role of Information and Cost...

The Second Circuit Cautiously Expands Walker Process Standing in In re DDAVP

Posted on December 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aidan Synnott (Paul Weiss) & Charlene Jones (Paul Weiss) illustrate how The Second Circuit Cautiously Expands Walker Process Standing in In re DDAVP. ABSTRACT: In October 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the...

Procedural Fairness

Posted on December 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jonathan Zuck (Association for Competitive Technology argues for Procedural Fairness. ABSTRACT: In a recent speech, Neelie Kroes of the European Commission argued that ?as enforcers we do have ?special responsibility? to ensure a fair and...

Getting The Job Done Right: Strengthening The Senate Bill To Fully Protect Competition

Posted on December 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Balto (Center for American Progress) has a posting on the Huffington Post on Getting The Job Done Right: Strengthening The Senate Bill To Fully Protect Competition.

Antitrust, Economics, and Innovation in the Obama Administration

Posted on December 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright (George Mason Law) explains Antitrust, Economics, and Innovation in the Obama Administration. ABSTARCT: The strength of antitrust doctrine has been its ability to incorporate economic thought and empirical evidence over time...

The Middle Way On Applying Antitrust to Information Technology

Posted on December 08, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Evans (University of Chicago Law, University College London Law), suggests The Middle Way On Applying Antitrust to Information Technology. ABSTRACT: Antitrust analysis ought to account for special features of IT?just like it ought to...

Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

Posted on December 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol William Kerr (Harvard Business School) and Ramana Nanda examine Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size. ABSTRACT: We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using...

Assessing Competition with the Panzar-Rosse Model: The Role of Scale, Costs, and Equilibrium

Posted on December 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jacob Bikker, Sherrill Shaffer, and Laura Spierdijk are involved in Assessing Competition with the Panzar-Rosse Model: The Role of Scale, Costs, and Equilibrium. ABSTRACT: The Panzar-Rosse test has been widely applied to assess competitive conduct,...

Preferences and Equilibrium in Monopoly and Duopoly

Posted on December 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics) and Michael H. Riordan (Columbia University - Department of Economics) provide thoughts on Preferences and Equilibrium in Monopoly and Duopoly. ABSTRACT: This paper takes...

The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets

Posted on December 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This is a reminder that the Truth on the Market symposium on The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets begins tomorrow. The symposium will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, December...

Information Advantage in Cournot Oligopoly with Separable Information, or Nondifferentiable

Posted on December 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ori Haimanko (Hitotsubashi University - Econ) analyzes Information Advantage in Cournot Oligopoly with Separable Information, or Nondifferentiable. ABSTRACT: Einy et al (2002) showed that information advantage of a firm is rewarded in any equilibrium of...

Desarrollos Recientes y Nuevas Tendencias en Libre Competencia

Posted on December 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Desarrollos Recientes y Nuevas Tendencias en Libre Competencia Fecha: 16 y 17 de diciembre de 2009 Lugar: Aula Magna, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile Dirección: Pío Nono 1, Providencia, Santiago, Chile El objetivo de...

Chanukah and the Antitrust Professor

Posted on December 06, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol We spent this afternoon at an early Chanukah party (since Chanukah does not start till the evening of December 12, 2009). This year we bought some new Chanukah books for the girls. The first that...

Profile on antitrust law scholar Maurice Stucke

Posted on December 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The University of Tennessee Law School Magazine has an interesting profile on Maurice Stucke in its latest issue. Included are pictures from Maurice during law school and discussion of how he worked at Bloomingdales in...

Price distributions and competition

Posted on December 05, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ken Burdett (Penn - Econ) and Eric Smith (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) explain Price distributions and competition. ABSTRACT: Considerable evidence demonstrates that significant dispersion exists in the prices charged for seemingly homogeneous goods...

Microsoft and the Limits of Antitrust

Posted on December 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol My colleague Bill Page has posted a very interesting article on Microsoft and the Limits of Antitrust. Highly recommended! ABSTRACT: Frank Easterbrook?s 1984 article, The Limits of Antitrust, did not focus on public antitrust enforcement...

Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence

Posted on December 04, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph A. Clougherty, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an interesting paper on Competition Policy Trends and Economic Growth: Cross-National Empirical Evidence. ABSTRACT: Motivated by the general lack of empirical scholarship concerning...

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