E.CA Competition Law & Economics Expert Forum – Berlin, April 2016

4th E.CA Competition Law & Economics Expert Forum

15 April 2016 in Berlin organised together with ESMT

This conference offered insights into developments in competition law and economics, from both a German and a European perspective. The sessions addressed practitioners, enforcers and academics from the legal and economic fields. This year, the Expert Forum focussed on the ex-post evaluation of competition enforcement, private litigation, the interaction between competition policy and innovation, and Internet economics.

View the programme of the Expert Forum here.

Download the presentations:

Cartel Dating, Prof. Dr. Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam and ACLE

Cartels, and Economics, Massimo Motta, University Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE, European Commission

E-commerce and EU Competition Law, Szilvia Szekely, DG Competition, European Commission

Ex-post Evaluation of Competition Law Enforcement. Effects on German Waste Packaging Markets, Arno Rasek, Bundeskartellamt

Mergers and innovation. Firm-level evidence, Joel Stiebale, DICE, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

Registered Cartels in Austria – An Overview, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, University of Vienna, CEPR, CESifo, Wifo, ZEW

The effect of retail mergers on variety: An ex-post evaluation, Tomaso Duso, DIW Berlin, DICE, BCCP

The Internet – Challenges for Competition Policy, Markus Reisinger, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

What can merger retrospectives tell us? An assessment of EU mergers, Peter Ormosi, Center for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia