1st week (by October 1st)

 

Please find the competition/antitrust legislation of your country of origin, both in the original language and in English.

 

2nd week (by October 8th)

 

Please study ICN, Defining Hard Core Cartel Conduct, 2005, pp. 1-16 and OECD (2007) - Competition in Bidding Markets, pp. 19-36; 44-45.

 

3rd week (by October 15th)

 

Assignment on our WIKI.

 

4th week (by October 22nd)

Group assignment and competition: How stable is „your“ cartel? Results on our WIKI.

5th week (by October 28th)

Please study OECD, Resale Price Maintenance, pp. 23-58.

 

6th week (by November 5th)

- Please add your personal conclusions on the stability of cartels to our wiki (it would be nice if you could make yourself easily recognizable by using your first name).

- Please study OFT, An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books, pp. 17-35; 90-93 and International Chamber of Commerce, Commission on Competition, Review of EC competition rules applicable to vertical agreements.

 

7th week

 

Please study (by November 12):
- D. Lewis, „Competition Law and Policy in Bad Times“, GCP, December
2008.
- J. Fingleton, „Competition policy in troubled times“.

Get your topics ready for our Briefing on the Oracle/Sun acquisition (by November 11).

 

8th week (by November 19)

Please study:
- ICN, Recommended Practices for Merger Analysis
- OECD, Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis, pp. 17-43.

 

9th week (by November 25)

Please study:

- OECD (2009), The Emerging Patent Marketplace.

- M. Boldrin, D.K.Levine (2005), The economics of ideas and intellectual property (this presentation might also be of help).

10th week (by December 4)

 

Please study:

- OECD (2009), Refusals to Deal, pp. 21-56.

11th week (by December 11)

 

Freely choose a competition policy decision taken either in your country of origin or in your elective country and write a two-page analysis of it.

 

 

Assignments

rbanks

International Competition Law 09-10