Dynamic Competition Initiative | Launch Event
onlinehttps://youtu.be/phCQN7YziFo The DCI launch was an open, virtual event where we discussed Dynamism, Competition, and the key principles, commitments, and activities of our Initiative. Below is the agenda: Welcome and Introduction Bowman Heiden (UC-Berkeley and UGOT) Thibault Schrepel (VU Amsterdam and Stanford) Session 1, Dynamism?…
Roundtable with Steve Cernak
The roundtable focuses on a retrospective analysis of the Allison(GM)/ZF transaction, 1993. The Allison transaction illustrates the question of competitive pressure from outside the market that merger guidelines require to define. In the transaction, the DoJ defined a narrow market following standard static tools like the SSNIP…
Roundtable with Doug Melamed
onlineThe roundtable focused on Prof Doug Melamed’s recent paper titled “Mergers involving nascent competitors”. The paper advances a framework for a narrow prohibition of such mergers, based on Section 2 of the Sherman Act. More broadly, the aim with the roundtable was to offer a…