Winter/Spring, 2007
Randal
C. Picker
Leffmann
Professor of Commercial Law
The
Seminar
Blog: http://picker.typepad.com/picker_seminar/
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Date |
# |
Topics/Issues |
Readings |
|
Tu, 1/9, 12:15 |
1 |
Introduction
to the Seminar |
|
|
Tu, 1/23, 12:15 |
2 |
Welfare
Standards in Antitrust |
Farrell
& Katz, The Economics of Welfare Standards in Antitrust, Heyer,
Welfare Standards and Merger Analysis: Why Not the Best? |
|
Tu, 2/6, 12:15 |
3 |
Single-Firm
Conduct |
Vickers,
Abuse of Market Power Salop, Exclusionary Conduct,
Effect on Consumers, and the Flawed Profit-Sacrifice Standard Melamed,
Exclusionary Conduct Under the Antitrust Laws: Balancing, Sacrifice, and
Refusals to Deal |
|
Tu, 2/20, 6:15 |
4 |
Mergers |
Werden, Unilateral Competitive
Effects of Horizontal Mergers I: Basic Concepts and Models Coate, Economic Models
and the Merger Guidelines: A Case Study |
|
Tu, 3/6 |
5 |
Standard Setting |
Swanson
& Baumol, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory (RAND) Royalties,
Standards Selection, and Control of Market Power Geradin & Rato, Can
Standard-Setting Lead to Exploitative Abuse? A Dissonant View on Patent
Hold-Up, Royalty Stacking and the Meaning of FRAND |
|
Tu, 4/3, 12:15 |
6 |
Switching
Costs and Network Effects |
Farrell & Klemperer, Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects |
|
Tu, 4/17, 12:15 |
7 |
Antitrust
Overview |
Kaplow &
Shapiro, Antitrust (page 1-59) |
|
Tu, 5/1, 12:15 |
8 |
Antitrust Overview |
Kaplow &
Shapiro, Antitrust (pages 60-130) |
|
Tu, 5/15, 6:15 |
9 |
Miscellaneous |
Antitrust
Modernization Commission Baker,
Beyond Schumpeter v. Arrow: How Antitrust Fosters Innovation Philipson
& Posner, Antitrust in the Not-for-Profit Sector |