Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust (Elgar Original Reference)

797 Pages·2007·2.8 MB·English

by  Philip Marsden

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH IN TRANS-
ATLANTIC ANTITRUST

Handbook of Research in
Trans-Atlantic Antitrust
Edited by
Philip Marsden
Director,Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow,
British Institute of International and Comparative Law,UK
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham,UK • Northampton,MA,USA
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Handbook of research in trans-Atlantic antitrust / edited by Philip Marsden.
p. cm.—(Elgar original reference)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Antitrust law (International law). 2. Consolidation and merger of
corporations—Law and legislation. 3. Conflict of laws—Antitrust law. 4.
Intellectual property (International law) 5. Consumer protection. I.
Marsden,Philip,1965– II. Series.
K3850.H36 2007
343´.0721—dc22
2006013786
ISBN 978 1 84542 181 6 (cased)
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd,Bodmin,Cornwall
Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface xi
Philip Marsden
1 Unilateral effects from mergers:the Oraclecase 1
Gregory J.Werden
2 Transatlantic issues in the European merger review of Oracle/
PeopleSoft:harmonious dissonance 16
Thomas Vinje and Dieter Paemen
3 Merger to monopsony in Canada,Europe and the United States:
a selected international comparison 41
Margaret Sanderson
4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Regime dynamics in US and EC
merger control 72
Andrew Scott
5 A transatlantic assessment of the evolving use of behavioural
merger remedies 108
Neil Campbell,Casey Halladay and Omar Wakil
6 Judicial review of mergers in Europe:Tetra Laval,GE/Honeywell
and the convergence toward US standards 153
Jeremy Weinberg
7 Discounts,rebates and selective pricing by dominant firms:a
trans-Atlantic comparison 195
Christian Ahlborn and David Bailey
8 A dominant firm’s duty to deal:EC and US antitrust law
compared 236
Alison Jones
9 Tying:a transatlantic perspective 287
David W.Hull
10 Abuse of dominance enforcement under Latin American
competition laws 319
Russell Pittman and Maria Tineo
11 Substantial convergence:the US influence on the development
of the regulatory framework for IP licensing in the EC 335
Steven D.Anderman
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vi Handbook of research in trans-Atlantic antitrust
12 The right balance of competition policy and intellectual
property law:a Federal Trade Commission perspective 356
Alden F.Abbott,Suzanne Michel and Armando Irizarry
13 Compulsory access as an antitrust remedy:when,why and
how is it applied in EU and US law? 398
Donald I.Baker and Tony Woodgate
14 Regulation in Brazil:retrospect and prospects 414
Gesner Oliveira and Thomas Fujiwara
15 Regulatory and competition issues in the transatlantic air
transport sector:towards a transatlantic open aviation area 444
Karel van Miert and Daniel Calleja
16 Issues relating to the enforcement and application of criminal
laws in respect of competition 466
Mark Furse
17 The brave new world of extradition:a North Atlantic treaty
alliance against cartels? 493
Julian M.Joshua
18 Lessons learned from the US experience in private enforcement
of competition laws 515
Kevin E.Grady
19 The role of non-litigation strategies:advocacy,reports and
studies as instruments of competition policy 541
William E.Kovacic
20 Information please:opening antitrust to the public:why more
European Union Court and Commission documents and
hearings should no longer be secret 552
David Lawsky
21 The goals of antitrust:thoughts on consumer welfare in the US 566
Albert A.Foer
22 Competition enforcement and consumers 594
Juan Antonio Rivière y Martí
23 The distributional consequences of antitrust 605
Okeoghene Odudu
24 Merger control and cross-border transactions:a pragmatic view
on cooperation,convergence and what is in between 622
Ariel Ezrachi
25 Bilateral enforcement cooperation agreements 641
Anestis Papadopoulos
26 An antitrust analysis of the World Trade Organization’s decision
in the US–Mexico arbitration on telecommunications services 679
J.Gregory Sidak and Hal J.Singer
Contents vii
27 Mexico’s competition law:North American origins,European
practice 718
Adriaan ten Kate and Gunnar Niels
28 Competition policies in Latin America,post-Washington
Consensus 732
Julián Peña
Index 759
Contributors
Alden F.Abbott,Associate Director,Bureau ofCompetition,Federal Trade
Commission.
Christian Ahlborn,Partner,Linklaters.
Steven D.Anderman,Professor,University of Essex.
David Bailey,Solicitor,Linklaters and King’s College London.
Donald I.Baker,Partner,Baker and Miller LLP.
Daniel Calleja,Director of Air Transport at the European Commission.
Neil Campbell,Partner,Competition Group,McMillan Binch Mendelsohn
LLP,Toronto.
Ariel Ezrachi,Slaughter and May Lecturer in Competition Law,University
of Oxford,and Director,Oxford Centre for Competition Law &Policy.
Albert A.Foer,President,American Antitrust Institute.
ThomasFujiwara,DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofBritishColumbia.
Mark Furse,Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law,University of Glasgow.
Kevin E.Grady,Alston & Bird,LLP.
Casey Halladay, Member of the Competition Group, Cleary Gottlieb,
London.
David W.Hull,Partner,Covington & Burling LLP.
Armando Irizarry, Counsel for Intellectual Property, Office of Policy and
Coordination,Bureau of Competition,Federal Trade Commission.
Alison Jones, Reader in Law, King’s College London and Solicitor,
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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Contributors ix
Julian M.Joshua,Partner,Howrey,LLP,Brussels.
William E.Kovacic,Commissioner,US Federal Trade Commission.
David Lawsky,Reuters.
Philip Marsden, Director, The Competition Law Forum and Senior
Research Fellow,British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Suzanne Michel, Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Policy and
Coordination,Bureau of Competition,Federal Trade Commission.
Gunnar Niels,Director,Oxera.
Okeoghene Odudu,Herchel Smith Lecturer and Fellow in Law,Emmanuel
College, Cambridge and Deputy Director, Centre for European Legal
Studies,Faculty of Law,University of Cambridge.
Gesner Oliveira,Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Dieter Paemen,Clifford Chance LLP.
Anestis Papadopoulos,Researcher,London School of Economics.
Julián Peña,Allende & Brea,and ForoCompetencia.
Russell Pittman, Director of Economic Research and Director of
International Technical Assistance, Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust
Division,US Department of Justice.
Juan Antonio Rivière y Martí, Consumer Liaison Officer, Directorate
General for Competition,European Commission.
Margaret Sanderson,Vice President,CRA International Limited.
Andrew Scott, Law Department, London School of Economics and
Political Science.
J.Gregory Sidak,Visiting Professor of Law,Georgetown University Law
Center.
Hal J.Singer,President,Criterion Economics,LLC.