Corporate & Securities Law

Advanced Agency & Distribution 2010

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the complexity of agency and distribution agreements and relationships increasingly being manifested in significant legal and regulatory developments, join us this October for IBC Legal?s cutting-edge one day event Advanced Agency and Distribution and...

Bundling and Compatibility: Selling the Whole Package May Be Pro-Competitive

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Matteo Alvisi, University of Bologna - Department of Economics and Emanuela Carbonara, University of Bologna - Department of Economics explain Bundling and Compatibility: Selling the Whole Package May Be Pro-Competitive. ABSTRACT: In this paper we...

Patent Pools as a Solution to Efficient Licensing of Complementary Patents? Some Experimental Evidence

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rudy Santore (University of Tennessee), Michael McKee (Appalachian State University) and David Bjornstad (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) discuss Patent Pools as a Solution to Efficient Licensing of Complementary Patents? Some Experimental Evidence...

Product Line Pricing in a Vertically Differentiated Oligopoly

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol George Deltas (Department of Economics, University of Illinois, U.-C., United States), Thanasis Stengos (Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada), and Eleftherios Zacharias (Department of Economics, Athens School of Economics, Greece) discuss Product Line Pricing...

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Can We Protect Competition Without Protecting Consumers?

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oles Andriychuk (University of East Anglia) asks Can We Protect Competition Without Protecting Consumers? ABSTRACT: This paper suggests that an interpretation of competition solely as a means to increase consumer welfare eliminates substantial characteristics from...

Innovation, Competition And Consumer Welfare In Intellectual Property Law

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Gustavo Ghidini, Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, University of Milan and Director, Observatory on Intellectual Property, Competition and Communications Law, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy has just published Innovation, Competition And Consumer...

Health insurance competition: the effect of group contracts

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jan Boone (Department of Economics, CentER, Tilec, Tilburg University), Carline Droge (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis), Ilaria Mosca (Sint Fransiscus Gasthuis), and Rudy Douven (Dutch Healthcare Authority and TILEC) examine Health insurance competition:...

Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Celina Lopez-Mateo and Antonio Ruiz-Porras (both University of Guadalajara) have posted Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms. ABSTRACT: We study how alternative measures of market concentration may explain investment decisions of...

Going Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on Whether Merger-Related Cost Savings Will Benefit Customers

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Baye (IU Bloomington - Kelley School of Business) and Graeme Hunter (NERA) discuss Going Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on Whether Merger-Related Cost Savings Will Benefit Customers. ABSTRACT: The motivation for many proposed mergers and...

Competition Issues in the Seed Industry and the Role of Intellectual Property

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol GianCarlo Moschini (Iowa - Econ) has an interesting new piece on Competition Issues in the Seed Industry and the Role of Intellectual Property. ABSTRACT: Research and Development (R&D) and innovation are crucial features of the...

WSJ Op-Ed Against the Hong Kong Competition Law

Posted on July 14, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I have not read the Hong Kong draft law and so I cannot comment as to the specifics on the law. However, this op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal titled Competition Law and...

Optimal Price Setting with Observation and Menu Costs

Posted on July 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), Francesco Lippi (University of Sassari, EIEF), and Luigi Paciello (EIEF) discuss Optimal Price Setting with Observation and Menu Costs. ABSTRACT: We study the price setting problem of a firm in...

Strategic Behavious of Firms in a Duopoly and the Impact of Extending the Patenting Period

Posted on July 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jolian McHardy (Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield) have a new paper on Strategic Behavious of Firms in a Duopoly and the Impact of Extending the Patenting Period. ABSTRACT: This paper deals with strategic....

Do Antitrust Agencies Facilitate Meetings in Smoke-Filled Rooms?

Posted on July 13, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Bos Iwan, Peeters Ronald, Pot Erik (all METEOR) ask the provacative question Do Antitrust Agencies Facilitate Meetings in Smoke-Filled Rooms? ABSTRACT: The theory of industrial collusion generally does not distinguish between tacit and explicit collusion...

Buyer Power in Health Plan Mergers

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cory S. Capps, Bates White, LLC has a forthcoming article on Buyer Power in Health Plan Mergers. ABSTRACT: In light of recent increased policy attention directed toward health insurance, the next significant health plan merger...

Relative and Absolute Preference for Quality

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Constantine Angyridis and Debapriya Sen (both Ryerson University) describe Relative and Absolute Preference for Quality. ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to explain two related phenomena: (i) it is often the case that when the new variety...

Bundling without Price Discrimination

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrés Carvajal (Department of Economics, University of Warwick), Marzena Rostek (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Marek Weretka (Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison) offer the possibility of Bundling without Price Discrimination...

The strategic effect of bundling: a new perspective

Posted on July 12, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andrea Mantovani (Department of Economics, University of Bologna) discusses The strategic effect of bundling: a new perspective. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the strategic effect of bundling when a multi-product firm producing two complements faces competition...

MOFCOM released provisional regulations on the handling of divestiture of assets to comply with a merger approval

Posted on July 11, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol MOFCOM released provisional regulations on the handling of divestiture of assets to comply with a merger approval. See here. HT: Paul Jones

Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization

Posted on July 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Raymond J. Fisman, Columbia University Business School and Virginia Sarria-Allende, Universidad Austral - IAE Business School have posted Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization. ABSTRACT: We study the distortions of industrial organization...

UCL course: The Role of Economics in Competition Law and Practice

Posted on July 10, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The UCL Jevons Institute is pleased to announce that it will again run it successful Role of Economics in Competition Law and Practice course, starting in the Autumn 2010. This course introduces the economic theories...

Foreign Bank Presence and its Effect on Firm Entry and Exit in Transition Economies

Posted on July 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Olena Havrylchyk (CEPII) analyzes Foreign Bank Presence and its Effect on Firm Entry and Exit in Transition Economies. ABSTRACT: This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm...

Assessing Microsoft from a Distance

Posted on July 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Lopatka (Penn State Law) takes an introspective look at Assessing Microsoft from a Distance. ABSTRACT: A careful review of the evidence that was available at the time Microsoft was litigated and has accumulated since...

The New Insurance Block Exemption Regulation

Posted on July 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alan Davis and Christina Day (both Pinsent Masons LLP) describe The New Insurance Block Exemption Regulation. ABSTRACT: Under the new regulation, a block exemption remains available for insurance agreements but its scope is more limited...

Innovation and Competition in Generation and Retail Power Markets

Posted on July 09, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Catherine Waddams Price, University of East Anglia - School of Management and Elizabeth Hooper, University of East Anglia - Norwich Business School identifiy issues in Innovation and Competition in Generation and Retail Power Markets...

Welcome Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joining the world of blogs is the Kluwer Competition Law Blog. The aim of the blog is to provide fresh and insightful information that will be of use to practitioners, in-house counsel and academics. The...

An Antitrust Analysis of the Federal Trade Commission?s Complaint Against Intel

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Josh Wright (GMU Law) has an interesting article on An Antitrust Analysis of the Federal Trade Commission?s Complaint Against Intel. ABSTRACT: The Federal Trade Commission?s recent complaint targets the Intel Corporation for antitrust scrutiny under...

A micro-econometric approach to geographic market definition in local retail markets: Demand side considerations

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Walter Beckert (Birkbeck College, University of London, IFS, and UK Competition Commission) discusses A micro-econometric approach to geographic market definition in local retail markets: Demand side considerations. ABSTRACT: This paper formalizes an empirically implementable framework...

Mixed oligopoly, vertical product differentiation and fixed quality-dependent costs

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stefan Lutz and Mario Pezzino (both University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences) have a new paper on Mixed oligopoly, vertical product differentiation and fixed quality-dependent costs. ABSTRACT: A private and a public firm face...

European Commission Decisions on Competition: Economic Perspectives on Landmark Antitrust and Merger Cases

Posted on July 08, 2010
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol European Commission Decisions on Competition: Economic Perspectives on Landmark Antitrust and Merger Cases Francesco Russo Bonelli Erede Pappalardo and Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) Maarten Pieter Schinkel University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Center...

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