Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mario Todino (Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners) & Alberto Martinazzi (Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners) provuides insghits into Damages Actions Against the EU Institutions Following the CFI’s Judgment in My Travel vs. Commission. In this...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a press release, the Commission announced, "The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the functioning of the current regime for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements under EU antitrust rules, in particular...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The American Lawyer has a great interview with Sandy Litvak, who discussed just how close (3 hours) DOJ Antitrust came to taking Google to trial. HT: The Tech Chronicles
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The text of the speech that Peter Freeman, Chairman of the Competition Commission gave at the BIICL Mergers Conference on November 13, 2008 titled Merging is Such Sweet Sorrow is now available online.
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maria J. Gil-Moltó of University of Leicester Department of Economics discusses Economic Aspects of the Microsoft Case: Networks, Interoperability and Competition. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we discuss the main economic aspects of the European Microsoft...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jean J. Gabszewicz (Université catholique de Louvain - Economics) and Joana Resende (Université catholique de Louvain - Economics) have a new paper out on Uncertainty Quality, Product Variety and Price Competition. ABSTRACT: This paper analyses...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol General Trends in Competition Policy and Investment Regulation in Mandatory Defined Contribution Markets in Latin America by Mariam Dayoub, World Bank and Esperanza Lasagabaster, World Bank provides some interesting insights into the world of pension...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andreas Nicklisch, Max Planck Institute of Research on Collective Goods has a new piece on Semi-Collusive Advertising and Pricing in Experimental Duopolies. ABSTRACT: This article tests experimentally whether a high degree of collusion on advertisement...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In an important development, "The Commission has published on 3 December 2008 guidance on its enforcement priorities in applying Article 82 to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings. The Commission also issued a press release...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Global Competition Review has just broken the story that "Alexander Italianer, the deputy secretary general of the European Commission, will replace Philip Lowe as the director general of DG Comp by the end of...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Steven Tenn of the FTC's Bureau of Economics has written a merger retrospective working paper on The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction. ABSTRACT: We conduct a retrospective study...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Armin Schmutzler, University of Zurich - Socioeconomic Institute (SOI) writes on The Effects of Competition on Investment - Towards a Taxonomy. ABSTRACT: Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Rankings in Brazil for antitrust reveals a new pecking order for antitrust competition policy. Band 1 • Advocacia José Del Chiaro • Franceschini e Miranda - Advogados • Magalhães, Ferraz e Nery - Advocacia Band...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Giuseppe De Feo (University of Strathclyde - Business School) has a paper on Efficiency Gains and Mergers. ABSTRACT: In the theoretical literature, strong arguments have been provided in support of the efficiency defense in antitrust...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Antonio Acconcia, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Riccardo Martina, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics analyze Vertical Restraints Under Asymmetric Information: On the Role of Participation Constraints....
