In this issue: Following our usual custom, we’re presenting some of the most popular articles we published in 2010, reminding us of the varied global and critical issues that competition…

Thomas Brown, Katherine Robison, Ian Simmons, Jan 07, 2011 The transcript of the oral argument in this year’s most watched antitrust case, American Needle v. National Football League, captures a…

Gregory Werden, Jan 07, 2011 The “Sherman Act contains a ‘basic distinction between concerted and independent action.’”  The concerted action of several competing firms could be unlawful under Section 1…

Magdalena Brenning-Louko, Andrei Gurin, Luc Peeperkorn, Katja Viertiö, Jan 06, 2011 On 20 April 2010 the Commission adopted a new Block Exemption Regulation applicable to vertical agreements (hereinafter “the Regulation”).…

Mark Armstrong, Steffen Huck, Jan 07, 2011 We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality, and experimental economics as they apply to firm behavior in markets. Topics discussed include…

Leiv Blad, Bryan Killian, Jan 07, 2011 Overturning a 96-year-old rule, the United States Supreme Court held in Leegin that minimum resale price maintenance (“RPM”) agreements would no longer be…

Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Jan 07, 2011 As members of the Department of Justice  and Federal Trace Commission working group that is reviewing the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, we thank Competition…

Samuel Miller, Kristina Nordlander, James Owens, Jan 07, 2011 An issue of growing importance in global competition law is the risk that materials produced pursuant to one foreign sovereign’s confidential…

Marcus Glader, Jan 07, 2011 DG Competition has recently published three draft guidance papers setting out best practices for antitrust proceedings. The aim is to enhance transparency and predictability in…

Paul Lugard, Jan 07, 2011 It is no wonder that the revisions of the block exemption regulations for research and development agreements and specialization agreements, as well as the changes…

Norman Neyrinck, Nicolas Petit, Jan 07, 2011 Most competition lawyers tend to view the entry into force of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”), which followed…

Lapo Filistrucchi, Jan 07, 2011 There is a lot of talk nowadays, among competition policy practitioners, about two-sided markets and two-sided platforms. It is indeed one of the hot topics.…