Economic Methods in Competition Law Enforcement

Conference

The ZEW Centre for European Economic Research and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) are pleased to announce their conference "Economic Methods in Competition Law Enforcement". It aims at stimulating discussion between academic researchers and practitioners in the various competition authorities, legal counsel and economic consultancy firms regarding the application of theoretical and empirical industrial organization economics in the legal process of competition law enforcement. Theoretical, empirical as well as antitrust case study-oriented articles are welcome. A special emphasis lies on the use and importance of empirical techniques in the enforcement of the competition rules by institutions and courts.

Topics of Interest:

The conference aims to discuss economic tools and empirical techniques that can be used in all stages of the legal process of competition law enforcement:

  • Detection and investigation
  • Case selection and construction
  • Final decision, design and implementation of remedies
  • Litigation

Within this process, quantitative methods may be applied with the purpose of:

  • Identifying anticompetitive behaviour (e.g., econometric investigation of market power)
  • Screening markets for violations of competition law (e.g., behavioural screens for cartel detection, structural monitoring for competition problems)
  • Investigating causality (e.g., price-concentration studies) and effects (e.g., simulation of competitive effects of mergers)
  • Establishing appropriate remedies (e.g., simulations of remedies based on structural models)
  • Calculating antitrust damages (e.g., yardstick, cost-based, simulation methods to determine price overcharges)

Finally, we welcome any contributions that discuss the role of expert economic witnesses in litigation cases as well as best practice requirements for presenting economic evidence in courts.

Invited Speakers:

  • Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law School)
  • Gregory K. Leonard (NERA Economic Consulting)
  • Gregory Werden (Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice)

Scientific Committee:

  • Yuliya Bolotova (Cornell University)
  • Stephen Davies (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia)
  • Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zürich and ZEW)
  • Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)
  • Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
  • Maarten Pieter Schinkel (ACLE, University of Amsterdam)
  • Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Mannheim)
  • Frank Verboven (K.U. Leuven)

Local Organising Committee:

  • Kai Hüschelrath
  • Nina Leheyda

Call for Papers, (PDF file, 189 KB)
Final Programme, (PDF file, 55 KB)

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