Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I currently have a work that I have sent out to law reviews in which I decry the use of immunities from antitrust for public choice reasons. Adding fuel to my general ire on this...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol From the FTC Press release: Federal Trade Commission today announced it will host a workshop on October 17, 2008, in Washington, DC, to examine the scope of the prohibition of unfair methods of competition in...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph E. Harrington, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics has a very interesting piece on Optimal Corporate Leniency Programs. ABSTRACT: This study characterizes the corporate leniency policy that minimizes the frequency with which collusion...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Frank Stähler, University of Kiel - Economics and Thorsten Upmann, University of Bielefeld - Institute of Mathematical Economics have a paper on Market Entry Regulation and International Competition. ABSTRACT: We analyze a non-cooperative two-country game...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Eric Avenel of Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble (Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (GAEL)) discusses Strategic Vertical Integration without Foreclosure in a recent article. ABSTRACT: We determine the endogenous degree of vertical integration in a model...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Given some of my own writing in this area, I am always on the lookout for new work on international antitrust institutions. Daniel J. Gifford (University of Minnesota - Law School) and Robert T. Kudrle...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC will host a workshop in Washington, DC, following the close of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) comment period for its ongoing petroleum market manipulation rulemaking. Parties interested in participating as panel members...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC in a press release announced "that it will hold two public workshops and roundtables this fall to examine emerging health care competition and consumer protection issues. The events, which will be held in...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicolas Petit, University of Liege Faculty of Law and Miguel Rato, Howrey write on The Commission's Non Contractual Liability in the Field of Merger Control - Don't Use a Hammer When You Need a Screwdriver....
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Something that we tend to overlook in that competition can be used to reduce racial discrimination (see for example the books by Sowell and Becker in the 1970s for further reading- the more competition there...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alberto Pera of Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners writes on Changing Views of Competition, Economic Analysis and EC Antitrust Law. ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to illustrate how the changes in the view...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pedro P. Barros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Steffen Hoernig, New University of Lisbon - Faculdade de Economia, and Tore Nilssen, University of Oslo - Department of Economics have written on Keeping Both Eyes Wide Open:...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Sumanth Addanki (NERA) and Jeff Daskin (NERA) assess the reasoning by the Court of Appeals that the District Court committed an error in assuming that market definition must depend on the actions of marginal consumers....
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adel A. Al-Sharkas, Alfred University College of Business, M. Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans - Department of Economics and Finance, and Shari Lawrence, University of New Orleans - Department of Economics and Finance provide...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The European Institute of Public Administration is looking for a Senior Lecturer on Competition Policy. We welcome applications from persons with professional experience from the European Institutions or Member State administrations, and from persons with...
