15th ASCOLA (Virtual) Conference

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Main event Panels

Panel I
Goals
Session Chair: Giorgio Monti
• Konstantinos Stylianou, Marios Iacovides, “Goals and Purposes of EU Competition Law: Results of a Comprehensive Emprical Investigation”
•Juha Vesala, “Competition law approaches for verifying sustainability benefits claimed as justifications”
•Dina I. Waked, “Big Business, Innovation and Growth: Competition or Concentration”
• Theodosia Stavroulaki, “Equality of opportunity and antitrust: The Case of the US News and World report rankings”
• Ramsi Woodcock, “The Contrasting Approaches to Power of the Modern State and the Antitrust Laws: Lessons for the Regulation of Digital Platforms”
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Data Markets and Competition Law
Session Chair: Valeria Falce
• Laura Zoboli, Antonio Davola, “Data Sharing and Voluntary Licensing Models-from FRAND Towards FRAND-S”
• Giulia Schneider, “Designing Data Pools: Which Data Protection Safeguards for Emerging Sharing Remedies?”
• Martina Anzini, Anne-Carine Pierrat, “Data Pools as Information Exchanges between Competitors: An Antitrust Perspective”
• Shuya Hayashi, Koki Arai, “AI, Big Data and Competition”
• Can Atik, Bertin Martens, “Governing Agricultural Data and Competition in Data-driven Agricultural Services: A Farmer's Perspective”
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Abuse
Session chair: Sofia Oliviera Pais
• Soojin Nam, “Abuse of Superior Bargaining Position" in Practice: Experience from Korea”
• Christian Bergqvist, “Discrimination and Self-favoring in the Digital Economy”
• Anne C. Witt, “Exploitative Abuses in the Age of Dominant Digital Platforms - The German Facebook Case”
• Sofia Oliviera Pais, “Big Data, digital platforms and the revival of the concepts of exploitative abuse and abuse of economic dependence
• Marios Iacovides, Christos Vrettos, “Environmental degradation as abuse of dominance - The moral and constitutional imperative and an analytical framework under Article 102 TFEU”

Annex sessions

Annex session 1
Annex Session 1: Digital Markets and Competition Law, 9-11 CEST, 25th June
9:00-10:20 Session
Session chair: Wolfgang Kerber
Wolfgang Kerber, “"Market Power" and "Market Dominance": Need for Rethinking (the Role of) these Concepts in the Digital Era?”
Bhawna Gulati, “Impact of Price Discrimination in Platform Markets: Special emphasis on Cab Aggregators' Market”
Arlen Duke, Rhonda Smith, “Platform businesses and market definition”
Daniel Gill, Wolfgang Kerber, “The GDPR's Right to Data Portability - A Solution for Data Access Problems in the Connected Car?”
10:20-11:00 Panel on competition law in times of pandemic, panelists: Giorgio Monti, Nicolas Petit, Okeoghene Odudu, Maarten Pietr Schinkel, moderator: Fabiana Di Porto

a Di Porto Concept_Covid-19 panel

a Monti CPI EU-News-Column

a MontiI et al Covid-19 Competi Law

aPadilla-Petit_01.concurrences

aPoster Covid-19 Competititon

aSchinkel_Corona crisis cartel

9:00-11:00 Annex session 1


12:00-12:10 Welcome by Michal Gal (ASCOLA President)
12:10-13:55 Main event Panel I
Goals

Data Markets and Competition Law

Abuse
14:05-15:50 Main event Panel II
The Institutional Framework

Remedies

16:00-16:40 Economic expert Panel: Current Economic Challenges at the basis of Competition Law
Steven Salop (Georgetown), Dennis Carlton (Chicago), Moderator: Daniel L. Rubinfeld (Berkeley, NYU)
16:40-16:50 virtual toast with all members

18:00-20:00 Annex session 2 (partly in Portuguese)


9:00-11:00 Annex session 3


11:30-12:20 Keynote by European Commission Executive Vice President and Competition Commissioner Margarethe Vestager. moderators: Rupprecht Podszun and Peter Picht >> manuscript of the speech
12:30-14:10 Main event Panel III
Platform Markets

Data Markets, Data Protection and Competition

Developing Economies
14:20-16:00 Main event Panel IV
Digital Competition

Competition in specific industries

Algorithms and Competition Law

16:10-17:00 Panel on tips for young academics, Danny Sokol, Giorgio Monti, and Michal Gal, moderator: Rupprecht Podszun

18:00-20:30 Annex session 4


9:00-11:20 Annex session 5


12:00-14:00 Main event Panel V
Platform Markets

Competition, Innovation, and IP

Mergers
14:15-16:00 Main event Panel VI
Enforcement

General Perspectives

EU competition law

16:00-16:15 Virtual toast with all members
Prize for best paper by a young academic

18:00-19:30 Annex session 6

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