Program
WEBINAR #1
Webinar held on Tuesday 16 November 2021 13:00 EST | 10:00 PST | 19:00 CET
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ACQUISITIONS IN THE HIGH-TECH SPACE: MARKET POWER AND INNOVATION ISSUES
Since 2000, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft initiated more than one thousand acquisitions. Almost none were challenged by agencies and none was blocked. Multiple scholars, politicians, and policymakers recommend that, especially when it comes to high-tech companies, the review process needs to change, in particular, has to be tightened. Specifically, some propose that the burden of proof in merger review be reversed: let the acquirer prove that the effect of the proposed acquisition is pro-competitive. This may avoid many pre-emptive acquisitions and thus spur innovation and competition. But it may also produce a chilling effect on innovation through lower startup activity. Is the reversal of the burden of proof the right way forward, in the US and elsewhere? Are there alternative ways of addressing the issue? Should platforms and other digital companies be subject to a separate regime?
Joseph FARRELL | Partner, Bates White | Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley (bio)
Loren SMITH | Principal, Practice Co-Leader Global Antitrust & Competition, The Brattle Group (bio)
Koren WONG-ERVIN | Partner, Axinn, Washington, D.C. (bio)
Moderator: Luis CABRAL | Chair, Department of Economics, NYU Stern, New York (bio)
WEBINAR #2
Webinar held on Wednesday 17 November 2021 13:00 EST | 10:00 PST | 19:00 CET
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APP STORES: WHAT RULES FOR THE GATEKEEPERS?
A variety of lawsuits and investigations have claimed monopolization of the Google and the Apple app store. This panel will discuss key antitrust law and policy issues: Do the stores have monopoly power in appropriately defined relevant markets? Have their practices led to higher quality-adjusted prices and/or less innovation? Does a regulatory solution make sense?
Benno BUEHLER | Vice President, Charles River Associates, Munich and Brussels (bio)
Noah PHILLIPS | Commissioner, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C. (bio)
Greg WERDEN | Former Economist, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice, Washington D.C (bio)
Moderator: Daniel RUBINFELD | Professor, NYU School of Law, New York (bio)
WEBINAR #3
Webinar held on Thursday 18 November 2021 13:00 EST | 10:00 PST | 19:00 CET
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ADVERTISING MARKETS:
IS THE CURRENT ECOSYSTEM STIMULATING COMPETITION?
Despite the current economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital advertising is still expected to grow by 2.4% over the year, to reach USD 332.84 billion globally, representing more than half of total advertising expenditure globally. Yet these highly profitable markets do rely on a competitive structure. Several big tech companies are accused of illegal collusion in certain advertising markets. Such behaviour could be considered as agreements that unreasonably restrict trade and have an impact on interstate commerce. In this context, several members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have alerted the DOJ to anti-competitive behaviour in the advertising market by some major digital platforms. Moreover, numerous competition agencies, around the world, such as in France and Germany, have also found that some of these companies were abusing their position in the advertising market. How to remedy the state of things, in a coherent way internationally?
Eliana GARCES-TOLON | Director in the Economic Policy group, Facebook, Washington D.C. (bio)
James KILLICK | Partner, White & Case, Brussels / London (bio)
Chris JENKINS | Economics Director, UK Competition and Markets Authority, London (bio)
Jeffrey PRINCE | Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington (bio)
Tommaso VALLETTI | Professor of Economics, Imperial College London (bio)
Moderator: Scott HEMPHILL | Professor, NYU School of Law, New York (bio)
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WEBINAR #4
Webinar held on Friday 19 November 2021 13:00 EST | 10:00 PST | 19:00 CET
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STANDARD-ESSENTIAL PATENTS: HOW SHOULD COURTS DEAL WITH SEPS?
Technical standards and standard-setting organizations have become increasingly important in the modern economy — especially as information and communication technologies have become more important. At the heart of such standards are patents and patent holders — which would seem to make transactions that involve these standards ripe for after-the-fact hold-up and the exercise of market power. How have the courts dealt with disputes that have involved standard-essential patents? How should the courts deal with them?
Jorge L. CONTRERAS | Professor, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City (bio)
Kirti GUPTA | Vice President - Technology & Economic Strategy, Qualcomm, San Diego (bio)
John HARKRIDER | Partner, Axinn, New York (bio)
Mario LOPEZ | Vice President, Charles River Associates, Oakland (bio)
Moderator: Lawrence WHITE | Professor, Department of Economics, NYU Stern, New York (bio)
TEASER VIDEOS
6th Global Antitrust Economics Conference (Lawrence J. White)
6th Global Antitrust Economics Conference - Vertical Mergers & Shifting the Burden of Proof: Chilling Innovation? (Luis Cabral)
Last year’s attendees
Enforcers: Autorité de la concurrence, Bangladesh Competition Commission, Bundeskartellamt, California Department of Justice, CARICOM Competition Commission (Suriname), Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (Mexico), Competition and Markets Authority, Competition Council (Latvia), Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Hong Kong Competition Commission, Italian Competition Authority, OECD, The General Authority for Competition (Saudi Arabia), US Federal Trade Commission, World Bank, etc ...
Corporations: Developers Alliance, Fiduciary Automation, Law.com, Ofcam, UniCal, Verbatim, etc ...
Lawyers: Axinn Veltrop and Harkrider, Berghofer, CMS, Constantine Cannon, Crowell & Moring, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Demarest, DJ Ireland & Associates, Fieldfisher, Gilbert & Tobin, Harkins Cunningham, Havel & Partners, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, Kirkland & Ellis, KPMG, Mason Hayes & Curran, Reed Smith, Schernoff Bidart Echeverria, Trilegal, Van Bael & Bellis, Wecker, White & Case, etc ...
Economists: ACTECON, Allegro Consulting, Analysis Group, Bates White, Cornerstone Research, Economists Incorporated, MLex, Nextnomics, RBB Economics, RedPeak Economics, the Brattle Group, etc ...
Academics: Bocconi University, Charles University Prague, College of Europe, Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Fordham University, Glasgow University, Harvard Kennedy School, King’s College London, Masaryk University, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, New York University, Northwestern Law School, Okayama University, Pázmány Péter University, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Princeton University, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Universidad de Carabobo, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Nanterre, University of Athens, University of Constantine I, University of Indonesia, University of Padua, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, University of Zürich, University Potsdam, Wayne State University, Yale University
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RELATED ARTICLES
Webinar #1 - Vertical Mergers & Shifting the Burden of Proof: Chilling Innovation?
Webinar #2 - App Stores: What Rules for the Gatekeepers?
Webinar #3 - Advertising Markets: Is the Current Ecosystem Stimulating Competition?
Webinar #4 Standard-Essential Patents: How Should Courts Deal with SEPs?
2. Concurrences Webinar - IP & Antitrust - #1 The value of IP: FRAND licensing of SEPs, 15 June 2021
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