Staff Profile:Dr Ioannis Kokkoris

Name:

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

• Executive Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation (www.cclfr.com)
• Director of LLM International Commercial Law, LLM International Corporate Finance, LLM International Financial Regulation
• Director of LLM/MSc in Law and Economics
• Director of LLM/MSc Oil and Gas
• Learning Technology and ICT Co-ordinator

Areas of Interest:

Competition Law, Law & Economics, Company Law, Banking Law and Financial Regulation

Research groups / Centres:

Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation

Publications:

Selection of Books

• Kokkoris I., Olivares-Caminal R., "Antitrust Policy in the Wake of Financial Crises", Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Kokkoris I. "The Treatment of Non-Collusive Oligopoly Under the ECMR and National Merger Control", Routledge, 2010.
• Kokkoris I., Etro F., (eds) "Challenges in the Enforcement of Article 82", Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2010.
• Kokkoris I. "Is There a Gap in the Enforcement of Article 82", BIICL, 2009.

Selection of Chapters in Books

• "Implications of Merger Legislation for Corporate Debt Restructuring" chapter in Olivares-Caminal R. ed. Out-Of-Court Corporate Debt Restructuring: An International Comparative Analysis, September 2007, Kluwer.
• "Failing Firm Defence in Failing Markets", chapter in Olivares-Caminal R., Lambrosse J. R., Singh D., "Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution", Informa-Lloyds of London, 2009.
•  "Critical Analysis of the Substantive Reforms in the ECMR", chapter in Kokkoris I., Lianos I., "Τhe Challenge of an Optimal Enforcement System", with K. Katona, Kluwer, 2010.
•  "Toward an economic approach to article 102 tfeu" with Federico Etro, chapter in Kokkoris, Etro (eds.), Challenges in the Enforcement of Article 102, by Oxford University Press, 2010.
•  "Are we underenforcing Article 102 tfeu", chapter in Kokkoris, Etro (eds.), Challenges in the Enforcement of Article 102, by Oxford University Press, 2010.
• ""Excessive Pricing as an Abuse of Article 82" with Marcus Glader, chapter in González'Díaz E., Piergiovanni M. (eds.), by Claeys & Casteels publishing, 2011
• Shall banks that received State Aid be broken up? in Olivares-Caminal R., Singh D., Lambrosse J., "Managing Systemic Risk", Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
• Chapter on Merger Control, in Lianos I., Geradin D., (eds.) Research Handbook in European Competition Law Edward Elgar, 2011.

Selection of Refereed Articles

• Kokkoris I., Marsden P., (2010) The Role of Competition and State Aid Policy, Journal of International Economic Law, forthcoming.
• Kokkoris I., Should Crisis Cartels Exist Amidst Crises, Special Issue of the Antitrust Bulletin on EC Competition Law, forthcoming, 2010.
• Kokkoris I. (2009), "Was There a Gap in the ECMR", in Concurrences, 1-2009.
• Kokkoris I. (2009), "Buyer Power in UK Merger Control", in ECLR, 30(4), 176-188.
• Kokkoris I. and Olivares-Caminal R. (2008), "Lessons from the Recent Stock Exchange Merger Activity", the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 4(3), 837-869.
• Kokkoris I. (2008), "Assessment of Mergers Inducing Coordinated Effects in the Presence of Explicit Collusion" World Competition, 31(4), 499-522.
• Kokkoris I. (2007), "Failing Firm Defence: A Success or Failure for Corporate Restructuring?", in International Corporate Rescue, vol.4 issue 3, pp.149-156.
• Kokkoris I. and Olivares-Caminal R. (2007), "Competition and Regulation Aspects in Cross-Border Stock Exchange Mergers", in University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Volume 29 Issue 2 (Winter 2007).
• Kokkoris I. (2007), "Event Studies in Merger Assessment. Successes and Failures", European Competition Journal, 3(1), 65-99.
• Kokkoris I. and Olivares-Caminal R. (2007), "Regulation of Stock Exchanges in the Recent Wake of Mergers", in the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 22(8), 469-474.
• Kokkoris I. (2007), "Purchase Price Fixing: A Per Se Infringement?", in the European Competition Law Review, 28(9), 473-487.

For a full list of publications

Invited Conference/Symposium Papers

•  "Bundling in Article 82", Rome (Chair). [organiser]
•  "Failing firm Defence for Failing Banks", Coventry. [organiser/speaker]
• "Inadequacies in National Merger Legislations", Brno. [organiser/speaker]
• "Is there a Gap in Article 82?" London. [speaker]
• September 2009: "Liberal Professions", Bucharest. [speaker]
• July 2009: "Criminal Cartels", Rome. [speaker]
• May 2009: "Efficiency Defence in Horizontal Mergers", Athens [organiser/speaker].
• April 2009: "Merger Policy in the Wake of Financial Crises", Budapest [organiser/speaker].
• April 2009: "Failing Firm Defence in Failing Industries", Warwick University [speaker].
• March 2009: "Is There a Gap in Article 82", Rome [organiser/speaker].
• February 2009: "Collective Dominance in ECMR and Article 82", University of Thrace. [speaker]
• October 2008: "Corporate Governance Issues in Stock Exchange Mergers", invited to speak at the OECD, Paris. [speaker]
• September 2008: "Competition Policy in Developing v. Developed Network Markets", at Which competition policy for regulated industries?: Governance and sector-specific perspectives, Istanbul. [organiser/speaker]
• July 2008: "Criminal sanctions in the fight against cartels", at Italian Competition Authority, AGCM, Rome. [speaker]
• July 2008: "Event Studies in Merger Assessment", at Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference, Athens. [speaker]
• July 2008: "The Development of the Concept of Collective Dominance in the ECMR", at International Conference on Law, Athens. [speaker]
• April 2008: "A Critical Assessment of the ECMR Reform", at the 11^th Competition Law Scholars Forum, Glasgow. [speaker]
• March 2008: "Non-Horizontal Merger Assessment", "The Gap in the ECMR" at the OECD Workshop, Budapest. [speaker]
• February 2008: "UK Merger Control", presentation to the University of Warwick. [speaker]
•  June 2007: "SLC v. Dominance. Evidence of the Gap", presented at "The Reform of EC and Greek Competition Law", Athens [organiser/speaker].
•  June 2007: "The Coordinated Effects Saga", Democritus University Law School. [speaker]
• February 2007: "Stock Exchange Mergers", British Institute of International Commercial Law. [speaker]
• February 2007: "UK Merger Control, theory and practice", University College London. [speaker]
•  January 2007: "Competition and Regulation Aspects of Stock Exchange Mergers", University of Warwick. [speaker]
•  July 2005: "Countervailing Buyer Power under Articles 81 and 82", Office of Fair Trading. [speaker]

Qualifications:

BA Economics (Essex University), MPhil Economics (Cambridge University), LLM (Warwick University), PhD Competition Law (Kings College London), Visiting Researcher (Harvard Law School)

Biographical details

Ioannis Kokkoris is a Reader at the University of Reading, in the UK, where he teaches competition law and company law. He was a Principal Case Officer/Economic Advisor at the Office of Fair Trading, UK. He has worked at the DG Competition European Commission, as well as the US Federal Trade Commission where he acted as a Consultant. He has conducted research at Harvard Law School.

He background combines both law and economics. He holds a BA in Economics (Essex, UK) and an MPhil in Economics (Cambridge, UK), as well as an LLM (Warwick, UK) and a PhD in Competition Law (King's College London, UK). He has authored/co-authored/edited 12 books and has written over 40 articles in leading journals (ECLR, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, JIBLR, ICCLR, etc.).