Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alexander Okuliar and James P. Kidder of O'Melvany & Meyer have a policy paper for the Washington Legal Foundation titled State Antitrust Lawsuits: A Good Way to Balance Costs and Incentives for Patented Drugs.
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol William Kovacic (FTC) and David Hyman (University of Illinois Law) discuss How Institutional Design Affects Statutory Implementation: Lessons from Competition Law in their latest paper. ABSTRACT: It is one thing to pass a law, and...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The text of the draft law is available below. Download paraguay_proyecto_defensa_competencia.pdf
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Herb Hovenkamp of the University of Iowa Law School writes on Patent Continuations, Patent Deception, and Standard Setting: The Rambus and Broadcom Decisions in his latest working paper. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the implications of...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management), Paul Pautler (FTC) and Lars-Hendrik Roller (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ) have an interesting piece on The Economics of Organizing Economists ABSTRACT: The organizational form...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Europeans are certainly doing something right regarding cartel enforcement. Firms are reacting to what has become a very successful European anti-cartel enforcement effort with law firms now marketing mock dawn raids to clients. An...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol USTR has called for Reinvigoration of Regulatory Reform in Japan as part of the U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative. Specific highlights of Japanese accomplishments include: Liberalizing the sale of insurance products through banks,...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Israeli Antitrust Authority has proposed an amendment to the Israeli Restrictive Trade Practices Law to address oligopolies.
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Canadian Bar Association hosts the 2008 Annual Fall Conference on Competition Law from September 18-19, 2008 at the Hilton Lac Leamy Hotel in Gatineau, Quebec.
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph Hur (Yoon Yang) has posted an Analysis of the Korean Supreme Court decision concerning “unreasonableness” in the abuse of a market dominant position case involving Posco. ABSTRACT: On Nov. 22, 2007, Korea's Supreme Court...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeff Lien (DOJ Antitrust) provides some answers on Electricity Restructuring: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What is Next. ABSTRACT: In the 1990s and early 2000s, a series of state and federal initiatives restructured...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Armstrong (University College London Department of Economics) has written on Interactions between Competition and Consumer Policy. ABSTRACT: This paper discusses complementarities and tensions between competition policies and consumer protection policies. The paper argues that...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol William Page of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Seldon Childers have authored the excellent forthcoming Measuring Compliance with Compulsory Licensing Remedies in the American Microsoft Case. ABSTRACT: Section III.E of the...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alden Abbott (DOJ) and Josh Wright (George Mason Law) provide an Antitrust Analysis of Tying Arrangements and Exclusive Dealing in a forthcoming book chapter. ABSTRACT: This chapter surveys the legal and economic literatures on the...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol DG Competition has released the 2007 Annual Report on Competition Policy – protecting consumers and strengthening Europe's competitiveness.
