Corporate & Securities Law

Class Action Standards in Crisis: Whether Common Merits Questions Predominate Does Not Depend on the Questions? Answers

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol J. Douglas Richards (Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll) argues Class Action Standards in Crisis: Whether Common Merits Questions Predominate Does Not Depend on the Questions? Answers. ABSTRACT: In recent class action case law, the United...

Multilevel Governance, Lead Jurisdiction Concepts and Global Competition

Posted on May 21, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oliver Budzinski, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Environmental and Business Economics explains Multilevel Governance, Lead Jurisdiction Concepts and Global Competition. ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the prospects and limits of combining the governance principles...

Dominant Firms? Duties to Deal with Pharmaceutical Parallel Traders Following Glaxo Greece

Posted on May 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert O?Donoghue & Louise Macnab (Brick Court Chambers) Dominant Firms? Duties to Deal with Pharmaceutical Parallel Traders Following Glaxo Greece. ABSTRACT: EU competition policy on dominant firms and pharmaceutical parallel trade?wholesalers taking advantage of arbitrage...

Handbook of Competition Enforcement Agencies 2009

Posted on May 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Review has published The Handbook of Competition Enforcement Agencies 2009. Overview Introduction David Lewis - International Competition Network (ICN) Countries Albania Argentina Viviana Guadagni, Norberto Caneva, Hugo Quevedo - Quevedo Abogados Australia...

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Competition and Consumer Policies: Starting Points for Better Convergence

Posted on May 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Kati Cseres, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics has a new paper on Competition and Consumer Policies: Starting Points for Better Convergence. ABSTRACT: Competition and consumer policies have developed in many...

Competition Policy and International Trade Liberalisation: Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets

Posted on May 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Robert D. Anderson (WTO) and William E. Kovacic (FTC) write on Competition Policy and International Trade Liberalisation: Essential Complements to Ensure Good Performance in Public Procurement Markets. This article reviews and synthesises relevant literature and...

Cartels and Tacit Collusion

Posted on May 20, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Summer is the time for great conferences. One worth attending is Cartels and Tacit Collusion. Download CCP_cartels_and_tacit_collusion_June09 ESRC Centre for Competition Policy University of East Anglia Cartels and Tacit Collusion CCP 5th Annual Conference 18?19...

Towards an Optimal Enforcement of Competition Rules in Europe - Time for a Reviwew of Regulation 1/2003?

Posted on May 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Law Centre of the College of Europe presents its Fifth Annual Conference, titled Towards an Optimal Enforcement of Competition Rules in Europe - Time for a Reviwew of Regulation 1/2003? This year...

Margins of Appreciation: Changing Contours in Community and Domestic Case Law

Posted on May 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Vivien Rose (U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal) addresses Margins of Appreciation: Changing Contours in Community and Domestic Case Law. ABSTRACT: This article considers the circumstances in which a court, faced with a challenge to a decision...

Model Jury Instructions in Criminal Antitrust Cases

Posted on May 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has published Model Jury Instructions in Criminal Antitrust Cases This practical book provides guidance regarding jury instructions in criminal antitrust cases for juries sitting in judgment in antitrust trials of all...

Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger Enforcement

Posted on May 19, 2009
Posted b D. Daniel Sokol Commissioner Bill Kovacic (FTC) discusses Assessing the Quality of Competition Policy: The Case of Horizontal Merger Enforcement. ABSTRACT: This article suggests how a jurisdiction might best go about evaluating the quality of its competition policy...

Market Share Exclusion

Posted on May 19, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo - Department of Economics describes 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...

Google an Antitrust Target?

Posted on May 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today's NY Times has a story on potential antitrust problems that Google faces. The article discusses antitrust issues in the United States. As events of the last few weeks remind us, even with ramped up...

IP and Antitrust: Errands into the Wilderness

Posted on May 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christina Bohannan, University of Iowa - College of Law and Herb Hovenkamp, University of Iowa - College of Law have an interesting new working paper IP and Antitrust: Errands into the Wilderness. ABSTRACT: Antitrust and...

Dissecting Regional Integration in Financial Services from the Competition Policy and Trade Policy Perspectives

Posted on May 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mamiko Yokoi-Arai (OECD) and Masamichi Kono (Financial Services Agency Japan) address Dissecting Regional Integration in Financial Services from the Competition Policy and Trade Policy Perspectives. ABSTRACT: The dynamism of regional integration is not globally uniform,...

Bundling and Economies of Scope

Posted on May 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antonin Arlandis, France Telecom R&D explains Bundling and Economies of Scope. ABSTRACT: This paper examines how bundling and economies of scope impact competition. We model a duopoly where two firms, produce the two components of...

Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It

Posted on May 18, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Dennis Carlton of the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business explains Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It. ABSTRACT: In this article, I explain the...

UCL / IMEDIPA Santorini Competition Policy Workshop

Posted on May 17, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol If anyone were to receive an Olympic gold medal for conference organization, it would go to Ioannis Lianos of University College London - Law for organizing a spectacular conference of antitrust experts from four continents....

Bates White 6th Annual Antitrust Conference

Posted on May 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bates White will hold its 6th Annual Antitrust Conference on June 1 in Washington DC. Session 1: Evaluating evidence on the competitive effects of consummated mergers William E. Kovacic FTC Commissioner Joseph Farrell Director of...

Common principles for an economic assessment of the compatibility of State aid under Article 87.3 EC-Treaty

Posted on May 16, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today, the European Commission launched a consultation process on a staff working paper called "Common principles for an economic assessment of the compatibility of State aid under Article 87.3 EC-Treaty". Interested parties are welcome and...

Competition Advocacy in Time of Recession - The UK Competition Commission's Approach

Posted on May 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Competition Commission Chairman Peter Freeman provided his thoughts on Competition Advocacy in Time of Recession - The UK Competition Commission's Approach at the International Competition Forum, Warsaw.

Institutional Aspects of European Commission Guidance in the Area of Antitrust Law

Posted on May 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol B.M.P. Smulders (European Commission, DG Competition) has written on Institutional Aspects of European Commission Guidance in the Area of Antitrust Law. ABSTRACT: From an institutional law perspective, the question arises how to qualify the more...

On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products: The Case of Soybean Seed Industry

Posted on May 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Guanming Shi (Wisconsin - Agricultural and Applied Economics) Jean-Paul Chavas (Wisconsin - Agricultural and Applied Economics) have thoughts On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products: The Case of Soybean Seed Industry...

Illustrative Price Rises from Mergers in Differentiated Products Markets

Posted on May 15, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Parker (Frontier Economics) offers some thoughts on Illustrative Price Rises from Mergers in Differentiated Products Markets. ABSTRACT: The approach taken by U.K. competition authorities to analyzing the extent of merger concerns in differentiated products...

The Economic Basis for Israeli Antitrust Law

Posted on May 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adi Ayal of Ben Gurion University - Faculty of Law describes The Economic Basis for Israeli Antitrust Law. ABSTRACT: This chapter aims at elucidating the economic basis for antitrust law generally, and the Israeli Restrictive...

Competition Policy in Distressed Industries

Posted on May 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Carl Shapiro (DOJ Antitrust) presented a speech on Competition Policy in Distressed Industries. It his first speech in his government capacity. It is worth a read.

Antitrust and Associations Handbook

Posted on May 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has put out Antitrust and Associations. BOOK ABSTRACT: Handbook Significant segments of American business and professions are represented by trade and professional associations. But association activities raise potential antitrust risks and...

Colluding Through Suppliers

Posted on May 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Salvatore Piccolo (University of Naples "Federico II", CSEF) discusses Colluding Through Suppliers. ABSTRACT: In a dynamic game between N retailers and a large number of suppliers, I show that inefficient contracting emerges as a mechanism...

Reflections on Bush Administration M&A Antitrust Enforcement and Beyond

Posted on May 14, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ilene Knable Gotts (Wachtell, Lipton) & James Rill (Howrey) have a great new piece on Reflections on Bush Administration M&A Antitrust Enforcement and Beyond. ABSTRACT: The election of Barack Obama as President?and the culmination of...

News Flash: European Commission Fines Intel Record $1.45 Billion (?1.06 Billion)

Posted on May 13, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This has been a difficult week for dominant firms. First, Christine Varney announces that the DOJ will withdraw the Section 2 Report. Today, the European Commission has fined Intel a record amount for abuse of...

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