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September 2, 2010, 9:43 am, 759047
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Stephan Weymouth (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) and the Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego) discusses Democracy and Consumer Strength: Direct Evidence from Regulatory Reform in Developing Countries. ABSTRACT:...
September 2, 2010, 7:43 am, 758967
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol With the new academic year upon us, this is a reminder for anyone teaching antitrust/competition law or economics to recommend this blog to their students as a daily read to see the latest in scholarship...
September 2, 2010, 5:43 am, 758917
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol UCL is pleased to announce CPD course starting on 8 October on Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: The Regulation of Innovation About this course: The course illustrates the connections among innovation policy, competition law...
September 2, 2010, 3:43 am, 758856
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Christopher Yoo (Penn law) has posted on The Convergence of Broadcasting and Telephony: Legal and Regulatory Implications. ABSTRACT: This article, written for the inaugural issue of a new journal, analyzes the extent to which the...
September 1, 2010, 3:43 pm, 758621
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Peter Cramton (University of Maryland), Evan Kwerel (FCC), Gregory Rosston (Stanford), and Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford) advocate Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services. ABSTRACT: Spectrum auctions are used by governments to assign and...
September 1, 2010, 9:43 am, 758353
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marcella Scrimitore (University of Salento) has written on Managerial Incentives and Stackelberg Equilibria in Oligopoly. ABSTRACT: The paper investigates both quantity and price oligopoly games in markets with a variable number of managerial and entrepreneurial...
September 1, 2010, 9:43 am, 758354
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Massimo A. De Francesco (Universita di Siena) and Neri Salvadori (Universita di Pisa) Bertrand-Edgeworth competition in an almost symmetric oligopoly. ABSTRACT: We analyze a Bertrand-Edgeworth game in homogeneous product industry, under effcient rationing, constant marginal...
September 1, 2010, 9:43 am, 758352
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro describe The impact of competition on technology adoption: an apples-to-PCs analysis. ABSTRACT: We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturer’s decision to adopt new technology....
September 1, 2010, 9:43 am, 758350
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Scott Schuh, Oz Shy, Joanna Stavins (all Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) explain Who gains and who loses from credit card payments?: theory and calibrations. ABSTRACT: Merchant fees and reward programs generate an implicit monetary...
September 1, 2010, 9:43 am, 758351
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy eJournal June 30, 2010 to August 29, 2010 Rank Downloads Paper Title 1...