Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy

Fifth Annual Searle Center Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 21 - Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Fifth Annual Searle Center Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy will be held, September 21-22, 2012.

The goal of this conferecne is to provide a forum where leading scholars from across the country can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to antitrust economics and competition policy.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.

Fourth Annual Searle Center Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 23 - Saturday, September 24, 2011

Registration | Papers | Agenda

The Fourth Annual Searle Center Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy will be held, September 23-24, 2011.

The agenda for the Fourth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy is now available above.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.

Papers

Adverse Selection and Partial Exclusive Dealing
Justin Johnson, Associate Professor of Economics, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Cornell

Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance (with John Asker)
Heski Bar-Isaac, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking–the Antitrust Role Reconsidered
David Haddock, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University School of Law and Department of Economics
Tonja Jacobi, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Matthew Sag, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperabiltiy: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets(with Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John Van Reenan)
Christos Genakos, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business

Strategic Complementarity, Fragility, and Regulation
Competition Policy in Banking
Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics, IESE Business School

A Model of Market Power in Customer Markets
Liran Einav, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, and NBER
Paulo Somaini, Department of Economics, Stanford University

Competition or Collusion in Recent Bidding for U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas (joint with Ken Hendricks and Phil Haile)
Robert Porter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Economics

The First Order Approach to Merger Analysis
Sonia Jaffe, Harvard University
E. Glen Weyl, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

REGISTRATION

Attendance at the symposium is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please send an email to d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.

Location
Northwestern University School of Law
Wieboldt Hall
Room 147
340 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611

Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please call (312) 503-1811 or send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu .

Past Events

Third Annual Searle Center Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 24 - Saturday, September 25, 2010

The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where leading scholars from across the country can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to antitrust economics and competition policy.

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.

Click here to download the 2010 Antitrust Agenda.

"Product Differentiation Through Exclusivity" (coauthored with Ben Hermalin)
Michael L. Katz, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

"Predatory Pricing"
Aaron S. Edlin, Richard Jennings Endowed Chair, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley

"The Economics of Predation: What Drives Behavior When There is Learning-by-Doing" (coauthored with Ulrich Doraszelski and Yaroslav Kryukuv)
David Besanko, Alvin J. Huss Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Keynote Address: Antitrust for Patent Pools: Progress and Pitfalls
Richard J. Gilbert, Professor of Economics, Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley

"Merger Policy with Merger Choice"
Michael D. Whinston, Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor of Business Institutions, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Volker Nocke, Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim, Department of Economics

"Why (Ever) Define Markets"
Louis Kaplow, Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School

Panel on the Proposed Revision of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission and UC Berkeley
Ken Heyer, Economics Director, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Robert Gertner, Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jerry Hausman, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor, MIT Department of Economics
Michael A. Salinger, Professor of Economics, Boston University School of Management

Keynote Address: Consumer Protection
Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission and UC Berkeley

"Vertical Integration, Innovation, and Foreclosure" (coauthored with Marie-Laure Allain and Claire Chambolle)
Patrick Rey, Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics

"Legal and Economic Definitions of Collusion: A Comparison of American Antitrust versus European Competition Law"
Fred S. McChesney, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

"The Impact of a Corporate Leniency Program on Antitrust Enforcement and Cartelization"
Joseph E. Harrington, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Second Annual Searle Center Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 25 - Saturday, September 26, 2009

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.

Click here to download the 2009 Antitrust Agenda.

"Competition Policy and Property Rights"
John Vickers, Professor of Economics and Warden, All Souls College, Oxford University

"Toward a Test for Price Fixing - Social Objective, Detection, and Sanctions"
Louis Kaplow, Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School

"Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Complexity & Judicial Training on Appeals"
Michael R. Baye, Bert Elwert Professor of Business, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Joshua D. Wright, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Keynote Address: The Relationship Between Antitrust and Regulation in Light of Trinko
Howard Shelanski, Deputy Director for Antitrust, Bureau of Economics, FTC, and UC Berkeley

"Dynamic Merger Review"
Michael Whinston, Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor of Business Institutions Department of Economics, Northwestern University

"Competition Policy and Financial Distress"
Ezra Friedman, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Marco Ottaviani, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

"The CC’s margin-concentration analysis in the UK Groceries Inquiry"
Jerry Hausman, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor, MIT, Department of Economics

Keynote Address: Microeconomic Policy and Competition Policy
Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, FTC and UC Berkeley

"Insurance, Consumer Choice, and the Equilibrium Price and Quality of Hospital Care"
Michael Katz, Harvey Golub Professor of Business Leadership and Professor of Management, New York University Stern School of Business and UC Berkeley

"Not Good Enough for Government Work: Geographic Market Definition and The FTC’s Case Against Chicagoland Physician Associations"
Fred S. McChesney, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

"The Economics of “Radiator Springs:” Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts"
Thomas Hubbard, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

First Annual Searle Center Research Symposium on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 26 - Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.

Click here to download the 2008 Antitrust Agenda.

"Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition"
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California-Berkeley
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group Director, Institute of Business and Economics Research (IBER) and Professor in Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

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"Antitrust Implications of Demand Accumulation" (post-Symposium revision)
Igal Hendel, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
Aviv Nevo, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

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"Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry" (post-Symposium revision)
Leemore Dafny, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
(co-authored by Mark Duggan, University of Maryland, NBER, and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California, at Los Angeles)

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Keynote Address: Antitrust Economics and Policy: Some Suggestions for Research Agendas
Michael Baye, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, and Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

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"Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct"
Dennis W. Carlton, Professor of Business Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

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"Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing"
Patrick Greenlee, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
(co-authored with Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman)

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"Boundedly Rational Bargaining in Option Demand Markets: An Empirical Application" (post-Symposium revision)
David Dranove, Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mark Satterthwaite, A.C. Buehler Professor in Hospital & Health Services Management and Professor of Strategic Management and Managerial Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Andrew Sfekas, Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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Keynote Address: Merger Evaluation: Progress and the Need for More Progress
Jerry Hausman, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics and Director of MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program, MIT

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"Policy Timing under Uncertainty: Ex Ante versus Ex Post Merger Control"
(post-Symposium revision)
Marco Ottaviani, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Abraham L. Wickelgren, Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

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"Addressing Endogenous Product Choice in an Empirical Analysis of Merger Effects"
(post-Symposium revision)
Michael J. Mazzeo, Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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"Some Welfare Analytics of Aftermarkets"
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

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Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please call (312) 503-1811 or send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu .