ALTI Amsterdam

[event] Frederic Jenny: The Five Crises of Competition Law
2025-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organizer: Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI).
Speaker: Frédéric Jenny holds a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University (1975), a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966). He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris and President of the International Committee of Concurrences Review. He is Chairman of the OECD Global Competition Forum, and former Co-Director of the European Center for Law and Economics of ESSEC. He was previously Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014), Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003). He was visiting professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978), Keio University Department of Economics in Japan (1984), University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991), Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Visiting Professor at University College London Law School (2005-2010), Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School (2014, 2017 and 2022) and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program, University of Melbourne (Australia) (2016-2018)
Description: Industrial policy to promote growth through innovation has taken center stage in Europe’s economic policy. What do we know about the economics of innovation and the respective roles of competition and industrial policy in the promotion of innovation? Under which condition could these two policies be complementary?
Format: Frederic Jenny will give a 30-minute talk, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience.
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[event] Teodora Groza: Governing Foundation Models
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Speaker: Teodora Groza is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. She has obtained a PhD in law from Sciences Po Law School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. Her work is underlined by the belief that technological developments need to be paired with governance innovations and investigates the fitness of various legal interventions for ensuring AI alignment. Methodologically, she leverages the toolkit of law and economics, in particular organizational and institutional economics.
She has published on data markets, the governance of AI companies, the role of regulation in promoting innovation, and the impact of new business models on the EU and US antitrust frameworks. She regularly intervenes at academic, civil society, and industry conferences.
Description: Senior executives of frontier AI labs have recently described AI foundation models as either “infrastructures” or “platforms.” Although these terms are often used interchangeably in legal and governance debates, economists distinguish between the effects and incentive structures they generate. This talk examines the role of foundation models in today’s economy and disentangles their platform-like and infrastructure-like characteristics. Building on this distinction, it situates foundation models within the existing regulatory architectures of platforms (e.g. social media, digital marketplaces) and infrastructures (e.g. public utilities). It then analyzes how different governance choices would shape access, competition, and the allocation of regulatory authority.
Organizer: Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ALTI).
Format: Teodora Groza will give a 30-minute talk, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Thibault Schrepel and a Q&A with the audience.
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[event] Competition and the Wealth of Nations
2026-03-13 09:00 - 17:00 | Rome, Italy
Substance Over Slogans:
Competition and the Wealth of Nations
Please join us for a unique antitrust conference, “Substance Over Slogans: Competition and the Wealth of Nations” on March 13, 2026, at the Palazzo Ripetta in Rome, Italy.
Our aim for this conference is to look past the headlines and oft-politicized arguments that have defined the last several years of competition-policy discourse to examine the current academic foundations of antitrust through a rigorous assessment of the legal and economic state of play—this year with a deliberately multidisciplinary lens that pairs subject-matter experts from adjacent fields with antitrust scholars and practitioners.
The competition-policy landscape is shifting rapidly, and making sense of it now requires a genuinely multidisciplinary vantage point. This year’s conference aims to assemble subject-matter experts from fields as diverse as the AI, cloud, and chips stack; management and productivity; geopolitics and digital sovereignty; venture capital and bankruptcy. By pairing these voices with leading antitrust scholars, we aim to translate external evidence into concrete implications for enforcement, remedies, and process—clarifying, for example, when vertical integration in the AI stack is pro-competitive, how reallocation conditions shape contestability, where industrial policy complements rivalry, and which institutional guardrails best sustain competitive markets over time.
Against this backdrop, our Rome conference will bring together an unparalleled assembly of top academics, influential policymakers, and business experts to discuss the state of the art of economic and legal research and to translate external expertise into concrete implications for enforcement, remedies, and institutional design. Each session features a concise 10–15 minute briefing by a subject-matter expert, followed by a moderated conversation with antitrust discussants.
Our goal is to investigate the current state of antitrust policy, focusing on substance over slogans.
Hosted by:

The International Center for Law & Economics (Geoffrey A. Manne and Dirk Auer)
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (Thibault Schrepel)
IE Law School Madrid (Francisco Marcos and Lazar Radic)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Dirk Auer (Director of Competition Policy, International Center for Law &Economics & Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Liège)
Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima (President, Brazilian Administrative Counsel for Economic Defense (CADE) & Former Assistant Deputy Director of Economic Policy, General Secretariat of the Presidency of Brazil)
David Bosco (Professor, Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Law and Political Science & Director, Center for Economic Law, Aix-Marseille University)
Harry G. Broadman (Principal, WestExec Advisors & Senior Economist, RAND)
Giuseppe Colangelo (Jean Monnet Chair in European Innovation Policy, University of Basilicata & Senior Scholar of Competition Policy, International Center for Law & Economics)
Juliana Oliveira Domingues (Professor of Economic Law and Antitrust, University of São Paulo & Former Attorney General, Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE))
Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg (Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia & Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School)
Nicola Giocoli (Full Professor of Economics, University of Pisa Faculty of Law)
Andrei Hagiu (Professor of Information Systems, Boston University Questrom School of Business)
M. Todd Henderson (Michael J. Marks Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School)
Herbert Hovenkamp (James G. Dinan University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
Frédéric Jenny (Emeritus Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School & Former Vice President, French Competition Authority)
Thomas A. Lambert (Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance, University of Missouri School of Law)
Maria Maciá (Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School)
Mariateresa Maggiolino (Full Professor of Economic Law, Università Bocconi)
Geoffrey A. Manne (President & Founder, International Center for Law & Economics & Visiting Professor of Law, IE University)
Francisco Marcos (Professor of Law, IE University Law School)
A. Douglas Melamed (Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School & Scholar in Residence, USC Gould School of Law)
Eduardo Pérez Motta (Founding Partner, Pérez Motta Estrada & Former President, Mexican Federal Competition Commission)
Randal C. Picker (James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School)
Lazar Radic (Assistant Professor of Law, IE University Law School & Senior Scholar of Competition Policy, International Center for Law & Economics)
Pierre Régibeau (Competition Expert, Analysis Group & Former Chief Economist, EU Commission Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP))
Thibault Schrepel (Associate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Faculty Affiliate, Stanford University CodeX Center)
Eric Seufert (General Partner, Heracles Capital & Analyst and Podcast Host, Mobile Dev Memo)
Lauren Wagner (Fellow, Abundance Institute)
Koren W. Wong-Ervin (Partner, Jones Day & Former Counsel for Intellectual Property & International Antitrust, U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
Elena Yndurain (Professor, IE Business School & Director, AI Project Management, Microsoft)
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