E.CA Competition Law & Economics Expert Forum – keynotes by Mundt and Régibeau
17 April 2023, Berlin
This year, the E.CA Expert Forum, organised jointly with ESMT Berlin, focussed on Welfare in Competition Policy. The sessions were aimed at practitioners, enforcers, and academics from the fields of law and economics.
Andreas Mundt, president of the Bundeskartellamt, and Pierre Régibeau, Chief Economist, DG Competition, were holding the keynote speeches, providing insights into recent developments in competition law and economics from a German and European perspective.
Besides the acting chief economist of DG Comp, three previous chief economists – Lars-Hendrik Röller, Damien Neven and Kai-Uwe Kühn – as well as leading experts such as Veronika Grimm, member of the Council of Economic Experts (SRW), Tomaso Duso, member of the Monopolkommission, and Natalie Harsdorf Borsch, acting director general of the Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, provided insights into topics ranging from (energy) price regulation, underenforcement in merger control, and measurement of sustainability up to the ongoing discussion on state aid and trade, and the EU’s response to the IRA .
We would like to thank all speakers and participants for having contributed to this event!
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Speakers
- Marcel Balz, Chief Economist, Bundeskartellamt
- Özlem Bedre-Defolie, Associate Professor of Economics, ESMT Berlin
- Aline Blankertz, Policy Advisor, Wikimedia
- Tomaso Duso, Head of Firms and Markets Department, DIW, Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics,TU Berlin, and Member of the Monopolies Commission
- Eric Emch, Partner, BatesWhite
- Hans W. Friederiszick, Director, E.CA Economics, and Research Fellow, ESMT Berlin
- Ela Głowicka, Director, E.CA Economics
- Linda Gratz, Director, E.CA Economics
- Veronika Grimm, Professor of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
- Natalie Harsdorf-Borsch, Interim General Director, Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde
- Paul Heidhues, Professor of Behavioural and Competition Economics, DICE
- Thomas Hildebrand, Director, E.CA Economics
- Simone Kohnz, Director, E.CA Economics
- Alena Kozakova, Director, E.CA Economics
- Kai-Uwe Kühn, Academic Advisor, Brattle, and Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia
- Andreas Mundt, President, Bundeskartellamt
- Damien Neven, Senior Consultant, Compass Lexecon, and Professor of Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva
- Rainer Nitsche, Director, E.CA Economics, and Research Fellow, ESMT Berlin
- Volker Nocke, Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
- Pierre Régibeau, Chief Economist, DG Competition
- Jörg Rocholl, President, ESMT Berlin, and Deutsche Bank Professor in Sustainable Finance
- George Rozanski, Former Chief, ERS, Antitrust Division, USDOJ and Partner, Bates White
- Lars-Hendrik Röller, Director, E.CA Economics, and Professor of Economics, ESMT Berlin
- Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Professor of Competition Economics and Regulation, University of Amsterdam
- Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Professor of Economics, KU Leuven
Programme
08.30 – 09.00 Registration and Coffee
09.00 – 09.10 Welcoming Remarks
09.10 – 10.00 Keynote 1: Recent Developments in German Competition Law & Economics
10.00 – 11.15 Panel 1: Welfare in Competition Policy – a View of (former) DG Competition Chief Economists
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.00 Parallel Session 1: Presumption-based Merger Control
Parallel Session 2: Measurement of Sustainability and Other Aims
Parallel Session 3: DMA – Trial and Error Regulation
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.00 Keynote 2: Economic Analysis in Recent European Competition Cases
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session 1: Underenforcement in Merger Control
Parallel Session 2: Competition Economics and (Energy) Price Regulation
Parallel Session 3: Data Sharing and Trading
16.45 – 17.00 Short Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.15 Panel 2: State Aid, Trade, and Investment
18.15 – 20.00 Closing Remarks and Champagne Reception
Presentations
Presumption-Based Merger Control
– Presumption-Based Merger Control, Volker NOCKE, Professor of Economics University of Mannheim
Measurement of Sustainability and Other Aims?
– Sustainability and Competition Policy, Maarten Pieter SCHINKEL, Professor of Competition Economics and Regulation, University of Amsterdam
– Sustainability as an Efficiency Defense, Kai-Uwe KÜHN, Academic Advisor, Brattle Group, and Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia
DMA – Trial and Error Regulation?
– Unintended consequences of DMA: An academic view, Özlem BEDRE-DEFOLIE, Associate Professor of Economics, ESMT Berlin
– Self-preferencing: regulatory approaches, Eric EMCH, Partner, Bates White
Dynamics and Competition Policy
– Dynamics and Competition Policy, Pierre RÉGIBEAU, Chief Economist, DG Competition – presentation to be added shortly
Underenforcement in Merger Control
– Assessing EU Merger Control through Compensating Efficiencies, Tomaso DUSO, Head of Firms and Markets Department, DIW, and Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics TU Berlin, Member of the German Monopolies Commission – presentation to be added shortly
Competition Economics and (Energy) Price Regulation
– Energy Transition in Times of Crises, Veronika GRIMM, Professor of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Member of the German Council of Economic Experts – presentation to be added shortly
Data Sharing and Trading
– Data Sharing and Trading, Paul HEIDHUES, Professor of Behavioural and Competition Economics, DICE
- Data Sharing and Trading, Aline BLANKERTZ, Policy Advisor, Wikimedia
State Aid, Trade and Investment
- EU green industrial policy after IRA, Reinhilde VEUGELERS, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Professor of Economics, KU Leuven – presentation to be added shortly
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