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17 Apr, 2007 6:04 pm
... doctors: medical school loan forgiveness for doctors who practice medicine in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG, April 16 -- State Rep. Josh
Shapiro, D-Montgomery, introduced legislation today that would strengthen Pennsylvania's health-care system by encouraging ... . "We already
have world-class medical schools that attract top medical school students to Pennsylvania," Shapiro explained. "The problem is, because of a
variety of factors, those students leave Pennsylvania when they graduate med school. My ...
15 Jun 2:03 pm
... Obama administration's antitrust agenda. I'll be giving some brief remarks in response and participating in a discussion including Shapiro
and Edwin Rockefeller and moderated by Douglas Ginsburg. Details are available here. UPDATE: It was a great event ... My remarks focused on the ambitious monopolization enforcement
agenda at the "new" DOJ and the withdraw of the Section 2 Report. Carl Shapiro, who gave a very thoughtful and interesting opening talk, and I
have a few fun exchanges about the DOJ's ...
22 Sep 7:39 am
The possibility of new Merger Guidelines has been much discussed in the antitrust community, particularly in light of appointment of the two new chief agency economists, Carl
Shapiro and Joe Farrell, who have done substantial work on the economics of horizontal mergers and market definition. Today, the FTC and DOJ
announced a series of workshops and period for public comment to explore potential revision of the Guidelines: The agencies will issue a set of questions about the current Guidelines
...
8 Jan 11:35 am
... and text messaging while driving. I understand that this issue may come up in the Pennsylvania legislature this session. I have spoken with Representative Josh Shapiro about this subject and I believe that he is going to take a leadership role in trying to make our roads
safer this year. I applaud Representative Shapiro for his leadership and initiative in this regard. In closing, we have not yet learned the
full scope of the negative impact that the ...
26 Apr 7:21 pm
... peril. People attending those tea parties were consumers and voters, with a decent number of registered Democrats and independents sprinkled in. State Rep. Josh Shapiro, a Philly-area Democrat set to run for Republican Arlen Specter's U.S. Senate seat, was not keen on ...
to ignore the real concerns of angry Americans. Elected officials "should be trying to figure out where that anger is coming from and address it, rather than trying to find ways to
dismiss it," Shapiro says. Read the whole thing.
1 May 10:12 am
... This experienced car accident attorney would have preferred to have seen a law with more teeth in it. I salute the efforts of Republican Josh Shapiro, a Montgomery County Democrat, who stressed that he wanted to enable police to give a driver a $50
ticket ... cell phone or sending text messages while driving. However, a majority of his colleagues did not agree. As Representative Shapiro is
aware, there have been thousands of accidents that have occurred on Pennsylvania roads due to cell phone usage ...
5 Nov, 2008 5:53 pm
... cartels as the supreme evil of antitrust to more holistic approach that elevates unilateral conduct (if I am right, Josh Wright must be
beside himself in terms of what this means under an error/cost framework) Interesting. Though I agree with ... antitrust enforcement and/or consumer welfare. I should be incredibly
clear here: I do not read Baker & Shapiro to be claiming to have demonstrated such a link empirically (though it is clear from the article
that they believe more enforcement would be ...
11 Jun, 2008 4:09 am
... ' costs" story) Disgorgement as an Antitrust Remedy (making the case for an expansive use of disgorgement as an antitrust remedy); and Correcting Current Models of Patent Holdup and
Royalty Stacking (another in the long line of responses to Lemley and Shapiro's important paper, this one reaching the provocative conclusion
that "Royalty stacking does not lead to royalties that exceed the optimal rate, contrary to this literature, but in fact tends to produce royalties that are at or below the ...
3 Jul, 2008 11:23 pm
Tom Barnett on "Current Issues in Merger Enforcement" - offering a defense against claims that the DOJ has been especially inactive in merger enforcement (see, e.g., this paper from Jon
Baker and Carl Shapiro) and its decision not to challenge the Whirlpool/ Maytag transaction (see Geoff's earlier post) Avner Grief responds
("The claim that merchants' relations with their overseas agents were law-based is wrong.") Leiter and Henderson on the NU 2 Year Program (see the comments)
23 Oct, 2008 10:49 pm
... , loyalty and other discounts, dynamic oligopoly, intellectual property, and behavioral and experimental economics. The scientific committee for the conference is: Susan Athey
(Harvard) Patrick Bajari (Minnesota) John List (Chicago) Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) Scott Stern (Northwestern-Kellogg) The conference will be held
at the Federal Trade Commission New Jersey Avenue Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. PRE-REGISTRATION Pre-registration for this conference is not ...
24 Dec, 2008 5:15 pm
... Basis for Formulating Antitrust Policy Toward Single Firm Conduct, 4(2) Competition Policy International 285 (2008). Department of Justice, Competition and Monopoly: Single Firm
Conduct Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act Joseph Farrell & Carl Shapiro, Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic
Alternative to Market Definition (working paper, 2008) Thomas W. Hazlett & Anil Caliskan, Natural Experiments in Broadband Regulation, 7 (4) Review of Network Economics (2008).
Keith N ...
19 Feb 4:47 pm
Pennsylvania State Representative Josh Shapiro has introduced a bill that would prohibit drivers
operating handheld cellular phones or sending text messages while operating a motor vehicle. For more information, go to; [www.post-gazette.com]
11 Mar 12:31 pm
... is consensus that the right way to think aboutCo setting optimal antitrust rules involves minimizing the social costs associated with both types of errors. I just don't see how to
square this with the claim that they do not exist. Perhaps Carl Shapiro or the excellent staff of DOJ economists can persuade their leader
otherwise. Collaboration between the agencies seems like a good thing. Though as I've written before, e.g. here and here, there are tradeoffs associated the increased convergence. ...
9 Apr 4:10 am
Congratulations to Professor Shelanski (HT: Brian Leiter). Berkeley's strength in antitrust is impressive. Note that even with the likely departures of Joe Farrell (FTC Bureau of
Economics), Carl Shapiro (DOJ) and Shelanski (Georgetown, and maybe into the administration?), the group still includes at least Dan Rubinfeld
and Aaron Edlin and should still be considered amongst the handful of very strong antitrust groups in the country.
2 Apr, 2008 9:46 am
... information technology industries). Footnote 51 contains Anne Layne-Farrar and Josh Lerner examine the decisions by patent holders whether
or not to participate in nine specific ... which grew out of standard-setting efforts. Anne Layne-Farrar & Josh Lerner, To Join or Not to
Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent ... unpublished manuscript), It is left as an exercise for the reader to determine how many times Lemley and Shapiro cited their own papers, and how many times they relied upon ...
19 Oct 7:23 pm
... a defense for merger to monopoly (74 Antitrust Law Journal 521 (2007)). His article was strongly criticized in a Comment by Jon Baker, Joe Farrell and Carl Shapiro. I'll stick to my knitting and take a pass on Geoff's and Josh's questions about when antitrust exemptions
are appropriate. Josh framed the question in an interesting way. We usually think that courts do a better job than the legislature on antitrust
issues. So, ...
15 Nov 7:14 am
... Kevin Mack; Joe Siegel. Structured Settlement Capital Markets - Jason Sutherland; Burt Kroner; John Ryan; Robin Shapiro; Josh Tobin. Structured Settlement Court Practices and Issues - Earl Nesbitt; Judge Edward Burke; Judge Christopher ... Settlements - Earl Nesbitt; Jeremy
Babener; Matthew Bracy; Daniel Hindert; Richard Risk; Andrew Savysky; Robin Shapiro; Michael Upchurch. For additional information about
structured settlements, see: "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" (S2P2J) ...
27 Jun, 2008 2:15 pm
... that allowing federal office-seekers to exceed normal contribution limits when their opponents are wealthy violates the 1st Amendment." In The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein reports that "Court Shakes Up Campaign-Finance Law; Decision Likely To Undermine Political Viability of Public Financing." In addition, John
Samples and Ilya Shapiro have an op-ed entitled "Let Millionaires Spend." And USA Today reports that "High court strikes down law on ...
29 Jan 12:56 pm
... Off the Shelf (Osgoode Hall Law School Library) E-legal Ideas … for Practicing Law (NetLegal) RSS Canadian Immigration News (Robinson Sheppard Shapiro) Law Angst in Vancouver Tim Baikie's Capital Markets Update PSW Law Ontario Condo Law Blog Canadian IP Perspectives (Josh MacFadden) Rights & Remedies (Shannon Salter) LEAP Blog: Law Enforcement Accountability Project (University of Windsor) DivorceOnline Miskin Law Blog
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29 Jan 1:22 pm
... (NetLegal) Rants & Raves (Patrick McKenna) (note: not new, just to our list…) RSS Canadian Immigration News (Robinson Sheppard Shapiro)
Law Angst in Vancouver Tim Baikie's Capital Markets Update PSW Law Ontario Condo Law Blog Canadian IP Perspectives (Josh MacFadden) Rights
& Remedies (Shannon Salter) LEAP Blog: Law Enforcement Accountability Project (University of Windsor) DivorceOnline Miskin Law Blog (Murray Miskin) ...
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