CRA Annual Brussels Conference: Economic Developments in European Competition Policy

Date: 07 | 12 | 2011

The CRA Annual Brussels Conference on Economic Developments in European Competition Policy took place on Wednesday 7 December 2011 at the Conrad Hotel, Brussels. Speakers' slides (where available) can be found below.

Accounting for Innovation in Merger Control and Antitrust Enforcement
Kai-Uwe Kühn, Chief Economist, DG Competition

Exclusionary Conduct: Are Common Priorities Emerging Between the US and the EU?
Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, FTC
Fiona Scott-Morton, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DoJ

Economics of Compliance and Deterrence
John Fingleton, CEO, UK OFT

Market Power, Efficiency and Remedy Offences in Mergers
Damien Neven, Graduate Institute of Geneva and CRA
Steven Salop, Georgetown University and CRA
Thibaud Vergé, Chief Economist, Autorité de la concurrence
Howard Shelanski, Georgetown University

State Aid Priorities: Rescuing Banks and Preventing Subsidy Races
Gert-Jan Koopman, Deputy Director General, DG Competition
John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE
Paul Seabright, IDEI, Toulouse

"Quantity" and "Quality" in Economic Assessments
Alexander Italianer, Director General, DG Competition

Recent Key Cases and Developments in France and Germany
Bruno Lasserre, President, Autorité de la concurrence
Andreas Mundt, President, Bundeskartellamt

Can Antitrust Prevent the Enforcement of IP Rights from Foreclosing Competition and Discouraging Innovation?
Pierre Régibeau, Imperial College London and CRA
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto
Miguel de la Mano, Chief Economist of the UK Competition Commission
Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics
Bob Harris, Haas School of Business and CRA

Full programme (PDF format)

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