[event] Substance Over Slogans: Strengthening The Foundations of Antitrust

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Our aim for this conference is to look past the headlines and politicized arguments that have defined the last several years of competition-policy discourse to examine the current academic foundations of antitrust and what they say about contemporary competition policy.

The competition-policy landscape is shifting almost as rapidly as the industries it seeks to regulate. Over the past few years, a new trend has seemingly taken hold of the field: Scholars and enforcers increasingly reject the economically grounded learnings of decades of legal analysis, enforcement experience, and applied industrial organization research in favor of untested policy initiatives reflecting mostly political preferences, not rigorous scholarship.

Against this backdrop, our Paris conference will discuss the state of the art of economic and legal research, and explore whether and where it may provide a rigorously supported basis for departing from antitrust’s traditional foundations.

The conference will bring together an unparalleled assembly of top academics, influential policymakers, and business experts to engage in a dynamic exploration of the assumptions that underpin contemporary competition enforcement.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

• Pinar Akman (University of Leeds)
• Brian Albrecht (ICLE)
• Gustavo Augusto (Administrative Council for Economics Defense)
• Dirk Auer (ICLE)
• Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission)
• Dennis W. Carlton (University of Chicago)
• Andy Chen (Taiwan Fair Trade Commission)
• Kenneth Elzinga (University of Virginia)
• Cani Fernández Vicién (Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission)
• Richard Gilbert (Berkeley)
• Oliver Hart (Harvard)
• Melissa Holyoak (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
• Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania)
• Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
• Frédéric Jenny (ESSEC Business School)
• Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
• Geoffrey Manne (ICLE)
• Francisco Marcos (IE Law School Madrid)
• Philip Marsden (Bank of England)
• Nicolas Petit (European University Institute)
• Lazar Radic (IE Law School Madrid)
• Thibault Schrepel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics)
• Koren W. Wong-Ervin (Jones Day)

HOSTED BY:

• European University Institute Department of Law (Nicolas Petit)
• IE Law School Madrid (Francisco Marcos and Lazar Radic)
• International Center for Law & Economics (Geoffrey Manne and Dirk Auer)
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (Thibault Schrepel)