Corporate & Securities Law

Low Cost Solutions to Health Care Through Generic Competition

Posted on June 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol June 23, 2009, 9:30am to 11:00am Admission is free. RSVP to attend this event Keynote speaker: Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission Featured Panelists: Seth Bloom, General Counsel, Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Heather Bresch, Chief Operating...

Is Collective Administration of Copyrights Justified by the Economic Literature?

Posted on June 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ariel Katz (Toronto - Law) asks Is Collective Administration of Copyrights Justified by the Economic Literature? ABSTRACT: On March 2007 Canada's Competition Bureau hosted a symposium on the interface between competition and intellectual property...

The Politics of Cartel Criminalisation: A Pessimistic View from Australia

Posted on June 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Beaton-Wells (University of Melbourne Law School) has posted The Politics of Cartel Criminalisation: A Pessimistic View from Australia. ABSTRACT: A global movement towards a tougher stance against serious cartel conduct has seen several countries...

Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care

Posted on June 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tim Greaney (St. Louis Law) describes Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care. ABSTRACT: A central challenge for all health care reform proposals currently being discussed is finding the means to effectively channel market...

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Judgment-Sharing Agreements

Posted on June 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Leslie (UC Irvine Law) explains Judgment-Sharing Agreements. ABSTRACT: Antitrust law condemns price-fixing cartels and seeks to encourage private suits against the conspirators by automatically trebling antitrust damages and by providing for joint and several...

Market Share Exclusion

Posted on June 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo - Department of Economics examines Market Share Exclusion. ABSTRACT: A market share exclusion contract between a seller and a buyer prevents rival sellers from competing for a share of the...

Eleanor Fox - Scholar, Advocate, Humanist, Female Traiblazer

Posted on June 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today the American Antitrust Institute honored my friend, mentor and co-author Eleanor Fox. A number of people gave speeches - Christine Varney (DOJ), John Fingleton (OFT) and Ilene Gotts (Wachtell). Eleanor followed. All the speeches...

Merger Analysis and the Importance of Looking Beyond the Level of Pre-Transaction Competition Between the Merging Parties

Posted on June 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Timothy Daniel (NERA) has written on Merger Analysis and the Importance of Looking Beyond the Level of Pre-Transaction Competition Between the Merging Parties. ABSTRACT: Timothy Daniel discusses four proposed mergers that were challenged by the...

Complements and Potential Competition

Posted on June 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo - Department of Economics has a paper that address Complements and Potential Competition. ABSTRACT: In this paper we examine the effect of cooperation between complementary incumbent monopolists on consumer welfare...

Are There Any Chicago School European Competition Law or Econ Professors?

Posted on June 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol After two conferences in the last three weeks of primarily European professors in both law and economics, I have noticed nobody from Europe who shows a proclivity to Chicago School antitrust analysis. Because of the...

Fight Against Cartels in Croatia: More than a Decade of Enforcement Practice

Posted on June 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jasminka Pecotic Kaufman (University of Zagreb) discusses the Fight Against Cartels in Croatia: More than a Decade of Enforcement Practice. ABSTRACT: The Croatian Competition Act 2003 prohibits cartel agreements and considers them to be null...

What Could Anti-Trust in the OECD Mean for Development?

Posted on June 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Institute of Social Studies asks What Could Anti-Trust in the OECD Mean for Development? ABSTRACT: The extra-territorial effects of cartels, mergers and other non-competitive activities require consideration especially if they harm...

Antitrust Law Developments, Sixth Edition

Posted on June 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has put out Antitrust Law Developments (Sixth). Antitrust Law Developments (Sixth) is the seminal comprehensive review of federal antitrust law, with reports on current case law and administrative and legislative developments...

Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

Posted on June 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kurt Richard Brekke, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration - Department of Economics Luigi Siciliani, University of York - Department of Economics, and Odd Rune Straume, University of Minho - Economic Policies Research Unit...

Judicial Review in Hungarian Competition Law -Tetra Laval Á La Hongroise

Posted on June 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kati Cseres, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics and Jurian Langer, University of Amsterdam address Judicial Review in Hungarian Competition Law -Tetra Laval Á La Hongroise. ABSTRACT: This paper assesses the...

Latin American Competition Law and Policy

Posted on June 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In what is the most important book on the topic to date, Eleanor Fox (NYU - Law) and Daniel Sokol (University of Florida - Law) have edited the forthcoming Latin American Competition Law and Policy....

Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets

Posted on June 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jay Pil Choi (MSU - Economics) has a new paper on Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets. ABSTRACT: This paper develops a simple model to analyze the effects of mergers in complementary system markets when...

Patent Settlements as a Barrier to Entry

Posted on June 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Anne Duchene, Drexel University - Department of Economics & International Business and Konstantinos Serfes, Drexel University - Department of Economics & International Business examine Patent Settlements as a Barrier to Entry...

Competition Law and the Maritime Sector

Posted on June 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol THE LONDON SHIPPING LAW CENTRE AT UCL WELCOMES MEMBERS AND THEIR COLLEAGUES TO THE TENTH MONTHLY EVENT IN THE 2008 ? 2009 EVENTS PROGRAMME Competition Law and the Maritime Sector 1st July 2009, 4.30pm On...

New to the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog

Posted on June 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have created a Linkedin site for readers of the blog to network and post announcements. I hope that people can post on substantive issues and also on any job announcements and tenders. Click here...

The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law

Posted on June 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolfgang Kerber, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics explains The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law. ABSTRACT: The governance of competition on global markets is an open policy question (lack...

2009 Chambers USA Rankings Now Out

Posted on June 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol It is finally out - the Chambers USA 2009 Antitrust Rankings. No doubt most of us will receive a series of client alerts about how well people did. Today I will focus on the top...

Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines

Posted on June 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol C. Lanier Benkard (Stanford - Business), Aaron Bodoh-Creed (Stanford - Econ) and John Lazarev (Stanford) undertake some interesting work regarding Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines. ABSTRACT: We propose a new method...

Is This Promoting Competition?

Posted on June 12, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I just read a news story on Microsoft from CNET that begins: Reacting to antitrust concerns expressed by European regulators, Microsoft plans to offer a version in Europe that has the browser removed. Computer makers...

The Single Entity Battle Continues: American Needle and the Seventh Circuit?s Hybrid Approach

Posted on June 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gabe Feldman (Tulane Law) discusses The Single Entity Battle Continues: American Needle and the Seventh Circuit?s Hybrid Approach. ABSTRACT: Courts have long struggled to articulate a coherent or sensible approach to applying the Sherman Act...

The Cardboard Box Cartel Case: Was All the Fuss Warranted?

Posted on June 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Caron Beaton-Wells (University of Melbourne Law School) and Neil Brydges (University of Melbourne Law School) explore The Cardboard Box Cartel Case: Was All the Fuss Warranted? ABSTRACT: The ACCC's legal action for price fixing against...

Resale Price Maintenance and Interlocking Relationships

Posted on June 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Patrick Rey (Toulouse - Econ) and Thibaud Vergé (CREST-LEI) explain Resale Price Maintenance and Interlocking Relationships. ABSTRACT: An often expressed idea to motivate the per se illegality of RPM is that it can limit interbrand...

Competition Policy and Intellectual Property

Posted on June 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Vaver (Oxford - Law), Marcel Boyer (University of Montreal - Econ), and Michael Trebilcock (Torinto - Law) have edited a new book Competition Policy and Intellectual Property. BOOK ABSTRACT: Competition Policy and Intellectual Property...

Naked Exclusion: Towards a Behavioral Approach to Exclusive Dealing

Posted on June 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jan Boone, Wieland Müller, Sigrid Suetens (all Tilburg econ) write about Naked Exclusion: Towards a Behavioral Approach to Exclusive Dealing. ABSTRACT: We report experimental results on exclusive dealing inspired by the literature on "naked exclusion"...

Rethinking Broadband Internet Access

Posted on June 10, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Daniel F. Spulber, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Christopher S. Yoo - Penn Law engage in Rethinking Broadband Internet Access. ABSTRACT: The emergence of broadband Internet technologies, such as cable modem and...

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