- Argue, D.A.
"Powerful Hospital Meets Powerful Payor," Presentation at AHLA Annual Meeting, June 2011. - Argue, D.A.
"Antitrust Guidance for ACOs: Understanding the Antitrust Enforcement Agencies' Final Policy Statement," Webinar presentation for AHLA Antitrust Practice Group, November 2011. - Argue, D.A.
"Price Variation Analysis in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Hospital Costs Study," Presentation at AHLA Annual Meeting, June 2011. - Argue, D.A.
"The ABCs of Calculating Damages in MCO Litigation," Presentation before ACI Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation, May 2011. - Argue, D.A.
"Antitrust and ACOs," Webinar presentation for AHLA Antitrust Practice Group, April 2011. - Walker, J.L.
"Preparing An Expert To Testify: A Discussion and Demonstration," Presented with J.T. McKeown, V.M. Howell, R.L. Hubbard, and D.A. Sasse, American Bar Association Antitrust Section Annual Meetings, March 9, 2011. - Miu, C.
"Economics and Consumer Protection Law" Presentation before the 58th Annual ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, 2010. - Argue, D.A.
The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Seafood Prices The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster of unprecedented proportions. The commercial and natural resources damages that will arise from the spill may ultimately be of similarly unprecedented proportions. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is often compared as the closest, if imperfect, historical example of how the Gulf spill will be treated. After the Exxon Valdez spill, fishermen claimed pure economic damages related to alleged depression of seafood prices in addition to losses from forgone catch in closed fisheries. These types of pure economic losses are allowed under the Oil Pollution Act ("OPA") of 1990 and are likely to be among those litigated in the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. To quantify such claims, it will be necessary to estimate the seafood prices that would have prevailed if the spill had not occurred. A study prepared for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund after the Exxon Valdez spill undertook a comprehensive, multi-model estimation of price effects for twelve species of seafood in several fisheries at different levels of production. It based the estimation of price effects on the fundamental supply and demand forces that determine prices of Alaska seafood. This modeling approach could serve as a template for the pure economic losses arising from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Full Article in PDF. - Smith, D.D.
"Market Definition and Antitrust Analysis: Economics and Econometric Fundamentals" Dr. Smith gave a presentation on antitrust economics related to market definition, market power, and competitive effects, and on relevant empirical/econometric aspects on a panel titled "Economics and Econometric Fundamentals." Dr. Smith has extensive experience in matters related to the economics of antitrust. He has testified in several cases regarding market definition and market concentration. W. Jeffrey Schmidt from Linklaters LLP in New York, NY was the session chair and Norman Armstrong, Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC was the moderator. The Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association sponsored the Spring Meeting, held April 21-23, 2010 in Washington DC. More than 2000 lawyers and economists from across the United States and many foreign countries attended.. - Sun, S.
"Market Concentration and Market Definition," Presentation before Anti-monopoly Bureau of MOFOM, July 12, 2010, Beijing, China. - Gurrea, S.D.
"Financial Innovation, Banking and The Subprime Financial Crisis," Presentation at The U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C. May 13 and 14, 2010. - Argue, D.A.
"Health Insurance Transactions: Insights from the Front Line," Presentation Sponsored by the Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section, November 2010. - Argue, D.A.
"Implications for Healthcare Transactions of the Revised 2010 DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines," Member briefing for AHLA Antitrust Practice Group, September 2010. - Argue, D.A.
"Predicting Post-Merger Price Effects: The Use of Hospital Merger Simulations at the FTC," Presentation sponsored by Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section, June 2010. - Argue, D.A.
"Why Don't Health Insurance Markets Work Like Other Markets? Or Do They?" Webinar presentation for AHLA Antitrust Practice Group, April 2010. - Sun, S.
"The Role of Efficiencies in the Antitrust Review of Mergers," Co-presented with Fiona Schaeffer, in Meeting of Delegation from MOFCOM Anti-Monopoly Bureau with American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and Section of International Law, May 10-11, 2009. - Argue, D.A.
"Exclusionary Conduct Part I: The Current Landscape of Provider vs. Payor Litigation," Teleconference presentation for AHLA Antitrust Practice Group, April 2009. - Argue, D.A.
"Fundamentals of Health Care Antitrust Economics," Presentation sponsored by the Economics Committee and the Health Care Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section, November 2007. - Argue, D.A.
"Hospital Competition with Physician-Owned Specialty Facilities," Presentation before ABA program on Physician Ownership of Hospitals and Other Health Facilities: Antitrust and Policy Issues, October 2007. - Argue, D.A.
"Bundled Discounting in Contracts for Patient Care Services," Presentation before ABA/AHLA Antitrust in Health Care Conference, September 2007. - Morris, J.R.
"The Likely Effect of the Proposed Exelon/PSEG Merger on Wholesale Electricity Prices," Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, July 2, 2007. - Morris, J.R.
"U.S. Department of Justice Economic Analyses of Electric Utility Mergers," EUCI Conference on Electric Utility Mergers, Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, Arizona, December 12, 2006. - Gurrea, S.D.
Discussant of "An Empirical Investigation into The Causes of Flight Delays," by Nicolas Rupp, and chaired panel on airline economics at The Annual Meeting of The Southern Economic Association, Charleston, SC, November 18, 2006. - Gurrea, S.D.
"Strategic Departure-time Differentiation And Low Cost Carrier Competition," Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of The Southern Economic Association, Charleston, SC, November 18, 2006. - Argue, D.A.
"Specialty Hospital Turf Wars: An Antitrust Economics Perspective," Presentation before Pennsylvania Bar Institute Health Law Institute, March 2006. - Argue, D.A.
"Hospital-ASC Competition," Presentation before CASCA Public Policy Symposium, March 2006. - Argue, D.A.
"ASC - Hospital Competition: An Economist's Perspective," Presentation before FASA 2006 Conference, May 2006. - Baumann, M.G.
"Panel 1: A Perfect Storm; The Battle Over Media Concentration," University of Michigan Symposium on Media Concentration, March 2005. - Sun, S.
Panelist, Roundtable on Proposed Antimonopoly Law of the People's Republic of China, the World Bank, Washington, DC, November 10, 2005. - Gurrea, S.D.
"Economic Tools in Antitrust Analysis. The Use of Econometric Tools in Antitrust," Presented at the Second Coloquio ForoCompetencia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 21, 2005. - Argue, D.A.
"Issues in Market Definition in Healthcare: Specialty Hospitals," Presentation before ABA/AHLA Conference on Antitrust in Healthcare, May 2005. - Morris, J.R.
"Competition in the Natural Gas Industry: An Antitrust Perspective," Presentation to staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, March 28, 2005. - Sun, S.
"Establishing Antitrust Policy in China: Some International Lessons," Presented at China Interacting with the World: Influences and Implications --- The 10th Annual International Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors in Social Sciences in the United States, Baltimore, MD, October 29-31, 2004. - Gurrea, S.D.
"Low Cost Carrier Competition And Flight Departure-Time Differentiation," Presented at the Third Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Meiji University, November 13, 2004, Tokyo, Japan. - Owen, B.M., S. Sun and W. Zheng
"Antitrust in China: The Problem of Incentive Compatibility," Presented at the Conference on China's Policy Reforms: Progress and Challenges, Stanford Center for International Development, October 14-16, 2004. - Sun, S.
"Establishing Antitrust Policy in China," Presented at World Bank seminar series on China, Washington, DC, November, 2003. - Argue, D. A.
"Issues in Market Definition for Physician Services," Presentation before FTC/DOJ Health Care and Competition Law Hearings, September 2003. - Argue, D. A.
"Conceptual and Practical Considerations for the FTC Retrospectives," Presentation before American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Section of Antitrust Law Conference on Antitrust in Healthcare 2003, May 2003. - Argue, D. A.
"Post-Merger Hospital Conduct: Conceptual and Practical Challenges," Presentation before FTC/DOJ Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Hearings, April 2003. - Argue, D. A.
"Issues in Litigating Hospital Mergers - Back to Basics," Presentation before FTC/DOJ Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Hearings, March 2003. - Stoner, R.D.
Participant in FTC Roundtable on Patent Issues, October 30, 2002, Washington, DC. - Stoner, R. D.
Participant in FTC Roundtable on Patent Issues, DOJ/FTC Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Knowledge-based Economy, October 30, 2002, Washington, DC. - Stoner, R. D.
"Intellectual Property and Innovation," Paper delivered before DOJ/FTC Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Knowledge-based Economy, February 26, 2002. - Nelson, P. B.
Testimony on "Competition and Innovation: Relationships between Market Structure and Innovation," at FTC/DOJ Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy, February 20, 2002. - Morris, J. R.
"Computer Models in The Electric Power Industry," Presented to staff of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, June 11, 2002. - B. M. Owen and others
"Brief of Economists Amici Curiae," State of New York, et al., v. Microsoft, United States District Court (DC), June 18, 2002. - Guerin-Calvert, M. G., S. M. Mirrow and S. Sun
"When is Enough Enough? Review of Economic Literature on Merger Analysis," Presentation for Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Modes of Competitive Analysis, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, August 7, 2001. - Guerin-Calvert, M., S. M. Mirrow and S. Sun
"Review of Selected Economic Literature on Merger Analysis," Presented at ABA Annual Meeting, August 2001. - Owen, B. M.
"Lies, Damn Lies and the Legal Fictions of American Broadcast Regulation," Presented at American Enterprise Institute Conference on the Role of Government in the Transition to Digital Television, October 26, 2001. - Morris, J. R.
"Finding Market Power in Power Markets," Presented to staff of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, June 20, 2001. - Gurrea, S. D.
"Airline Code Sharing and Entry Deterrence," Paper delivered at the 7th Conference of Industrial Organization, Barcelona, Summer 2001. - Walker, J. L.
American Law Institute - American Bar Association Course of Study, "Antitrust Law in the 21st Century," September 14-15, 2000 - Presentation concerning the economics of professional sports leagues. - Mirrow, S. M.
"Geographic Market Definition in Recent Hospital Merger Cases," Presentation for Private Antitrust Litigation Committee Program, American Bar Association Spring Meeting, April 2000. - McFarland, H. B.
"Economic Perspectives on Requiring Unbundled Access to Cable Broadband Networks," Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the ABA Antitrust Section, July 2000. - Gurrea, S. D.
"Cooperation among Competitors: Evidence from Airlines Alliances," Paper delivered before Northwestern University's Transportation Center, Fall 2000.
