Law Roundtable
Antitrust Prof Blog
February 4, 2012, 7:43 pm, 948268
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Reuters has reported that Bill Baer has been nominated to head DOJ Antitrust.Bill Baer is an exceptonal antitrust lawyer. In teaching Staples/Office Depot two weeks ago (with the help of guest lecturer Jim Fishkin of...
February 3, 2012, 1:43 pm, 948141
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marcelo Calliari (TozziniFreire) and Joana Cianfarani (TozziniFreire) describe A New Competition Law in Brazil: Definitely Maybe. ABSTRACT: As Brasil has become a major economic player, the need to have a fully modernized competition law is...
February 3, 2012, 9:43 am, 948067
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oliver Budzinski (University of Southern Denmark in Esbjerg, Department of Environmental and Business Economics) and Jesper Fredborg Huric Larsen (University of Southern Denmark in Esbjerg, Centre for Rural Research, Department of Environmental and Business Economics)...
February 3, 2012, 3:43 am, 948027
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chih-Liang Yeh, Graduate School of Social Informatics, Yuan Ze University has posted Does the Net Neutrality Really Preserve the Open Internet?: A Critique From the Implications of Broadband Policy. ABSTRACT: This article aims to query...
February 2, 2012, 5:43 pm, 947979
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Cui Shufeng (Ministry of Commerce) & Rong Hongzhi (Decheng District People’s Gov't) provide An Analysis of China's Merger Control System. ABSTRACT: In the three plus years since the Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") entered into force on...
February 2, 2012, 3:43 pm, 947955
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Harald Gruber (European Investment Bank, Luxembourg) Pantelis Koutroumpis (Athens Business School) describe Procompetitive infrastructure sector regulation and diffusion of innovation: The case of broadband networks. ABSTRACT: The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure...
February 2, 2012, 1:43 pm, 947933
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse) and Jean Tirole (Toulouse) explore Must Take Cards: Merchant Discounts and Avoided Costs. ABSTRACT: Antitrust authorities often argue that merchants cannot reasonably turn down payment cards and therefore must accept excessively high...
February 2, 2012, 9:43 am, 947870
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Natascha Freund, Rundfunk & Telekom-Regulierungs GmbH (RTR) and Ernst-Olav Ruhle – SBR Juconomy Consulting AG have written on The evolution from sector-specific regulation towards competition law in EU telecom markets from 1997 to 2011: Different...
February 2, 2012, 3:43 am, 947818
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Aleksander Stawicki, Center for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies has written on The Autonomy of sector-specific regulation – Is It still worth protecting? further thoughts on the parallel application of competition law and regulatory instruments. ABSTRACT:...
February 1, 2012, 11:43 pm, 947810
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Stallibrass (UIBE & RBB Econ.) & Jenny Xiaojin Huang (CASS) explain Brands, Consumer Protection, and Antitrust—Why China is Special. ABSTRACT: From China's first and only decision to block a merger, involving the purchase of...