E.CA Economics Expert Forum – Berlin

2nd E.CA Competition Law and Economics Expert Forum
14 March 2014 in Berlin with a special focus on cartels

This all-day conference offered a broad overview of and insight into recent developments in competition law and economics, both from a German and a European perspective. The general section of the conference addressed topics such as merger cases, RPM and future developments in antitrust economics. Given the increasing number of cartel cases under private litigation a special focus was set on the topic of cartel enforcement in the second half of the conference, with a policy round table discussing policy issues regarding the detection, prosecution and litigation of cartels and other sessions addressing topics like the economics of collusion and presumptions, quantification and the pass-on effect.

View the programme here.

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• Retail Price Recommendations – Where Do We Stand? – Stefan Buehler, University of St. Gallen, Swiss Competition Commission
• Horizontal and Vertical Mergers in TV Markets: A US and European Perspective – Gregory S. Crawford, University of Zurich, CEPR
• Competition Policy, Innovation, and Growth – Massimo Motta, DG Competition, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
• Cartels: Detection, Prosecution and Litigation – Joachim Bornkamm (Up to Feb. 2014: German Federal Court of Justice – Bundesgerichtshof)
• EU Competition Law & Private Litigation – An Overview – Andreas Reindl, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Competition litigation – Recent legal and policy issues – Christopher Rother, Deutsche Bahn AG
• The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings – Robert C. Marshall, Bates White, Penn State University
• Cartel presumptions, quantification and pass-on – a claimant’s view – Rainer Nitsche, E.CA Economics
• Calculating Cartel Damages – Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law