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New Global Competition Policy: Class Cert & Merger Review in the UK
The new issue is available here, and features the following articles in Class Certification and Antitrust Actions: Why Economics Now Matters for Antitrust Class Actions at the Class Certification Stage by Wendy Bloom (Kirkland & Ellis) The Potential Impact of Twombly on Antitrust Class Actions by Wendy Bloom (Kirkland & Ellis) and James Langenfeld (LECG) ... New Global Competition Policy: Class Cert & Merger Review in the UK
Behavioralism and the Problem of Conflicting Quirks
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with the behavioralists lately. I recently read Dan Ariely’s interesting book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. Then I heard Tom Ulen give a nice overview presentation at the recent Silicon Flatirons conference on the New Institutional Economics. I’m currently reading Cass Sunstein and ... Behavioralism and the Problem of Conflicting Quirks
Cert Granted in Linkline
The Supreme Court has granted cert in Pacific Bell Telephone Co., dba AT&T California v. linkLine Communications in order to address the question of whether a Section 2 “price squeeze” claim is viable under the Sherman Act if the defendant has no duty to deal. (HT: Scotusblog, which also has all of the relevant links). ... Cert Granted in Linkline
The NWU 2 Year Program
Bill Henderson has some thoughtful commentary on Northwestern University’s announcement of its 2 Year JD. He likes it. Here’s an excerpt: So let’s get this straight: NWU Law is going to attract applications from all the experienced, motivated students who want their elite JD degrees in two years versus three. Then it is going to ... The NWU 2 Year Program
Chairman Kovacic Announces the "FTC at 100" Self-Assessement Exercise
Chairman Kovacic has posted a paper announcing a major self-assessment initiative at the FTC: The FTC at 100: Into our Second Century. Here is the opening paragraph: Albert Cummins was one of the chief sponsors of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. In the weeks before the passage of the legislation that would create ... Chairman Kovacic Announces the "FTC at 100" Self-Assessement Exercise
Call for Antitrust Papers
From the Mississippi College School of Law: The Mississippi College Law Review is issuing a call for papers pertaining to antitrust law. The Law Review has published several themed issues in the past two years, and wishes to publish an article concerning antitrust, as the Law Review has not published any articles on this topic ... Call for Antitrust Papers
"Its nonsensical to object"
So says Jagdish Bhagwati about the recent objections by 100 or so University of Chicago faculty members to the establishment of the Milton Friedman Institute. (HT: Chicago Tribune). Here’s the whole quote as reported from the Chicago Tribune: “It is nonsensical to object. . . . Chicago should be proud it has someone like Milton ... "Its nonsensical to object"
Economics & Ideology Again
Crooked Timber has a very interesting post up on the minimum wage debate (HT: Brian Leiter). I want to comment on the sub-theme of the post (and the theme picked up in the title of Leiter’s post), which was that economics ideologically driven by pro-market bias which results in the publication of pro-market findings over ... Economics & Ideology Again
Kobayashi & Wright on Antitrust Limits, Federalism and Patent Holdup
I’ve posted to SSRN my new article (co-authored by my colleague Bruce Kobayashi), Federalism, Substantive Preemption, and Limits on Antitrust: An Application to Patent Holdup. We presented an earlier version of our analysis at the George Mason/ Microsoft Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation and benefited significantly from comments from the discussants and ... Kobayashi & Wright on Antitrust Limits, Federalism and Patent Holdup
Pioneers in Law and Economics: Benjamin Klein
I’ve mentioned previously that my colleague Lloyd Cohen and I are editing a volume for Edward Elgar Publishing on Pioneers in Law and Economics. Look for details in this space soon on a full list of contributing authors and subjects as well as where to buy the book! One of the perks of co-editing a ... Pioneers in Law and Economics: Benjamin Klein
Are Loyalty Discounts Really Anticompetitive?
I promised that I would write about why I think that Professor Elhauge’s claim in his new working paper, “Loyalty Discounts and Naked Exclusion,” that he has proven that loyalty discounts generally involve anticompetitive effects is mistaken. Let me begin by saying that this is a very provocative claim from a very serious antitrust analyst ... Are Loyalty Discounts Really Anticompetitive?
Three From Professor Elhauge on Antitrust
2008 has been a busy year for Harvard Professor Einer Elhauge so far from the looks of his SSRN page (not to mention advising Senator Obama on legal policies). He’s posted three new working papers covering a diverse set of antitrust topics: Loyalty Discounts and Naked Exclusion (purporting to “prove that loyalty discounts create anticompetitive ... Three From Professor Elhauge on Antitrust
