16th ASCOLA (Virtual) Conference

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ASCOLA 15th Confernce

Main event Panels

Panel I

Algorithms and Antitrust

Session Chair: Giorgio Monti

• Nicolo Zingales, Kati J. Cseres, “Algorithmic nudging as an exclusionary concern”

• Lena Hornkohl, “Article 102 TFEU as a tool to enforce algorithmic discrimination towards end consumers”

• Maria T. Patakyova, “How to Enforce a Pricing Algorithm under EU Competition Law? Solutions-Oriented Approach”

• Eduardo Molan Gaban, Vinícius Klein, “A new language for A.I. and the legal discourse”

• Fabiana Di Porto, Tatjana Grote, Gabriele Volpi, Riccardo Invernizzi "'I see something you don't see': A Computational Analysis of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act"

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Platforms

Session chair: Valeria Falce

• Sebastien Peyer, “Private remedies and digital markets”

• Rupprecht Podszun, “A Principled Approach to Platform Regulation”

• Anush Ganesh, “Application of competition law to zero-price online platforms: Convergence of three areas of the law”

• Konstantina Bania, “Taming the ‘Big Tech’ Beast: Regulating online platforms to protect competition in digital markets”

• Ki Jong Lee, “Cross-Market Impact of Platforms' Activities: A Proposal to Introduce the Obligation to Define a Secondary Relevant Market”

• Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall Van Alstyne, “Platform mergers and antitrust”

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Collaboration and Cartels

Session chair: Josef Drexl

• Giulia Schneider, “Data Pools for Collaborative Research under Art. 101 TFUE: Lessons from The Proposed Regulations for Data Markets”

• Alison Jones, Caio Mario Pereira Neto, “Combatting Corruption and Collusion in Public Procurement: Lessons from Operation Car Wash”

• Mariateresa Maggiolino, Laura Zoboli, “Blockchain Governance: The Missing Piece in the Competition Puzzle”

• Luz M. García Martínez, “Transparency through blockchain consortia in digital finance: potential antitrust risks?”

• Anna Tzanaki, “Varieties and Mechanisms of Common Ownership: A Calibration Exercise for Competition Policy”

Panel II

Panel III

Competition in Specific Industries

Session Chair: Wolfgang Kerber

• Arlen Duke, Rhonda Smith, “Pharmaceuticals and market definition: a cautionary tale"

• Ariel Katz, "Eden Sarid, “Who Killed the Radio Star? How Music Blanket Licensing Distorts the Production of Creative Content in Radio”

• Zlatina Georgieva, Todd Davies, “Zero Price, Zero Competition: How Marketization Fixes Anticompetitive Tying in Monetized Markets”

• Xingyu Yan, “Towards a More Competitive Mobile Payment Industry: Standardization and Beyond”

• Maria Casoria, “The Relationship Between Open Banking and Competition Law: A Novel European Saga”

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Regulation of Agreements

Session Chair: Ioannis Lianos

• Carmen Rodilla, Alexandre Ruiz Feases, “Anticompetitive agreements in labour markets and Article 101 TFEU”

• Mariateresa Maggiolino, “In the EU Gig Workers Cannot Conclude Collective Agreements. Whose fault is it?”

• Victoria Daskalova, “Reconciling competition law and the right to collective bargaining for self-employed: a quest for solutions”

• Alison Jones, Caio Mário da Silva Pereira Neto, “Combating corruption and collusion in UK public procurement: Proposals for post-brexit reform”

• Marcos Araujo Boyd, “Recent developments on the intra-group exemption under Article 101 TFEU: Ecoservice and AgriMer”

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Abuse

Session chair: : Björn Lundqvist

• Vicente Giovannini, “What Happens with the Abuse of Dominant Position? Advocacy for a New Approach to ‘Abuse’ in Digital Markets"

• Marios C. Iacovides, Christos Vrettos, “Radical For Whom? Unsustainable Business Practices As Abuses Of Dominance”

• Daniel Mandrescu,“Abusive pricing practices by online platforms under art.102 TFEU: a framework review for future cases”

• Vikas Kathuria, Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt, “The Case against 'Narrow' Price Parity Clauses”

• Germán Johannsen, Andrés Gonzalez, “Digital Platforms and Economic Dependence in Chile. Any Room for Competition Theories of Harm without Dominance?”

Panel IV

Digital Competition

Session Chair: Maurice Stucke

• Philip Marsden, Rupprecht Podszun, “Enforcement matters! Restoring balance to digital competition with sensible rules and effective enforcement”

• William Kovacic, David A. Hyman,“Regulating Big Tech: Lessons from the FTC’s Do-Not-Call Rule”

• Maria José Schmidt-Kessen, “Taming Tech Giants German-Style? Experimentalist Governance and the Regulation of Competition on Digital Markets in the EU”

• Xingyu Yan, “To Refresh, not Replace Competition: Fine-Tuning the Ex-Ante Approach to Regulating Data Combination Practices”

• Nora von Ingersleben-Seip, Zlatina Georgieva, “Old Tools for the New Economy? A Plea for an Enhanced Role of Counterfactual Causation in Competition Analysis of Digital Markets in Light of Impending Regulation”

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Enforcement Challenges

Session Chair: Heike Schweitzer

• Jan Broulik,“Roles of Positive Economics in Antitrust Proceedings: Competitive Effects as Adjudicative and Legislative Facts”

• Florence Thépot, “Interlocking directorates in Europe – an enforcement gap?”

• Alexey Ivanov, Anna Pozdnyakova, “Cross border cartels: challenges and threats for competition agencies”

• Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman, “Quest for Purpose of Competition Rules in European Post-Socialist Countries: The Role of Legal Culture”

• Manuel Abarca, “Competition Law in times of Socialism: The Chilean bank nationalization case (1971-1975)”

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Competition, Innovation, and IP

Session chair: Harry First

• Thomas J. Horton, “Innovation and antitrust: an evolutionary and historical perspective”

• Stephen Dnes, “Browser Tying and Data Privacy Innovation”

• Marco Botta, “The challenge of sanctioning unfair royalty rate by the SEP holder: ‘when’, ‘how’ and ‘what’”

• Oscar Borgogno, Giuseppe Colangelo, “SEPs licensing across the supply chain: an antitrust perspective”

• Soojin Nam,“What do SEPs and Digital Platforms have in common?: Fairness and Meritocratic Values in US Antitrust Laws”

Panel V

EU law

Session Chair: Peter Picht

• Barry J Rodger, “Beyond ECN+ Directive – Empirical Study Mapping Judicial review of national competition law decisions”

• Alexandre Ruiz Feases, “Sharpening the European Commission’s tools: interim measures”

• Liesbet Van Acker, “The Vacillation of Dual Distribution – An analysis in light of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation review”

• Pietro Manzini, “Disentangling the Digital market Act”

• Bernadette Zelger, “The Principle of ne bis in idem in EU Competition Law”

• Małgorzata Kozak, “Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. Critical analysis of EU harmonisation of the right for compensation for harm caused by competition law infringements.”

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Antitrust in Asia

Session Chair: Thomas Cheng

• Wendy Ng, “Data governance in China: Can competition law play a meaningful role?”

• Shilpi Bhattacharya, Pankhudi Khandelwal, “Judging a Book by its Cover?: Analysing the Indian Approach to Defining Platform Markets”

• Steven Van Uytsel, “Algorithmic Hub-and-Spoke Cartels: A Japanese Perspective”

• Masako Wakui, “Zaibatsu Break-Ups: The Legacy of Post-war Economic Reform in Japan and Digital Economies”

• Koki Arai, “Structuralist and Deconstructive understanding of Japanese Competition Policy toward Digitalization and Innovation”

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Remedies

Session chair: Michal Gal

• Francisco Marcos, “The uneven and unsure playing field for competition damages' claims in the EU: shortcomings and failures of Directive 2014/104/EU and its implementation”

• Michal Gal, Nicolas Petit, “Radical Restorative Remedies for Digital Markets”

• Filippo Lancieri, Caio Mario Pereira Neto, “Designing remedies for digital markets: the interplay between antitrust and regulation”

• Grigoris Bacharis, “Is ‘‘more’’ better? Broadening the right to sue in competition damages claims in both sides of the Atlantic”

• Omar Vasquez Duque, “Forced Choice vs. Inertia? An Exploratory Analysis of Choice Screens Applied in the European Microsoft Antitrust Case”

• Cristina Poncibò, Andrea Piletta Massaro, “The rise of third-party litigation funding in private damage actions for the breach of competition law in Europe”

Panel VI

Mergers

Session Chair: Pieter van Cleyenbreugel

• Elias Deutscher, “CK Telecoms and the new frame of reference for the analysis of unilateral effects in EU merger control - a critical appraisal”

• Jasper van den Boom, Peerawat Samranchit, “Assessing the long run competitive effects of digital ecosystem mergers”

• Björn Lundqvist, “Killer Acquisitions and other forms of anticompetitive collaborations”

• Alexandr Svetlicinii, “State-Controlled Entities in the EU Merger Control: the Case of PKN Orlen and Lotos Group”

• Frédéric Marty, Thierry Warin, “Visa Acquiring Plaid: A Tartan over a Killer Acquisition? Reflections on the risks of harming competition through the acquisition of startups within digital ecosystems”

• Theodosia Stavroulaki, “Mergers that harm our health”

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Competition and Other Policies

Session Chair: Fabiana Di Porto

• Klaudia Majcher, Viktoria Robertson, “The Twin Transition to a Digital and Green Economy: Doctrinal Challenges for EU Competition Law”

• Mary Catherine Lucey, “Gender and the Antitrust Curriculum”

• Claudio Lombardi, “Competition in Online News, Algorithmic Curation, and Advertising: Between Markets and Democracy”

• Kalpana Tyagi, “Competition Policy, with a touch of Green: From ‘Competition on the merits’ to ‘Sustainable’ Competition on the Merits”

• Fabiana Di Porto, Tatjana Grote, Gabriele Volpi, Riccardo Invernizzi, “'I see something you don't see': A Computational Analysis of the Digital Sevices Act and the Digital Markets Act”

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Antitrust Challenges

Session chair: Sofia Pais

• Inge Graef, “Consumer sovereignty and competition law: from personalization to diversity”

• Viktorija Morozovaite, “Two sides of the digital advertising coin: putting hypernudging into perspective”

• Jasper Sluijs, “Recalibrating Compass, or the end of the undertanking as we know it?”

• Juliane K. Mendelsohn, “The Challenge of Inequality in the Competition Paradigm”

• Shuya Hayashi, Koki Arai“Digital Platforms and Consumer Rights: From the Perspective of Competition Law and Trust”

• M. Borgers, Kati Cseres, Or Brook“Consumers’ participation in competition law proceedings: an empirical inquiry into the enforcement of competition law in the EU Member States”

Annex sessions

Annex session 1

Annex Session 1: 9:00-11:00 CEST 1st July

9:00-10:20 Competition and Data Protection Session chair: Emanuela Arezzo

Wolfgang Kerber, Karsten K. Zolna, “The German Facebook Case: The Law and Economics of the Relationship between Competition and Data Protection Law”

Simonetta Vezzoso, “'Gatekeepers' Interoperability Mandates: A Contextual Analysis of the Italian Android Auto Decision”

Valeria Falce, Nicola M.F. Faraone, “Digital markets as attention-engagement markets”

Klaus Wiedemann, “Consumer Autonomy, Competition Law and Data Protection Law in the Digital Economy: On the Relationship between the German Federal Supreme Court’s Facebook-Decision, the Revised German Competition Act and the Proposal for a Digital Markets Act”

Shubhangi Heda, Sakhi Shah, “Exploring the Intersection of Data Protection and Competition Law”

Annex session 2

Annex session 3

Annex session 4

Annex session 5

Annex session 6

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
Algorithms and Antitrust

Platforms

Collaboration and Cartels

14:05-15:50 Main event Panel II
General Perspectives

Market Power

Developing Economies

16:00-16:45 Keynote Prof. Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) "Antitrust: What went Wrong and How to Fix it"
16:45-16:55 virtual toast with all members

16:55-17:30 Happy hour for spontaneous virtual meetings (if you have the time!)

18:00-20:00 Annex session 2

9:00-11:00 Annex session 3

12:10-13:55 Main event Panel III

Competition in Specific Industries

Regulation of Agreements

Abuse

14:05-15:50 Main event Panel IV
Digital Competition

Enforcement Challenges

Competition, Innovation, and IP

16:00-16:45 Economic expert Panel: Innovation Economics, Richard Gilbert (Berkeley), Monika Schnitzer (Ludwig Maximilian University)Moderator: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College, London)

18:00-20:00 Annex session 4

9:00-11:20 Annex session 5

12:00-14:00 Main event Panel V
EU law

Antitrust in Asia

Remedies

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

Competition and Other Policies

Antitrust Challenges

16:00-17:00 Panel on Career challenges: How to make and maintain an academic career (not just as a woman) Moderators: Rupprecht Podszun and Kati Cseres Panelists: Anna Gerbrandy (tbc), Juan David Gutiérrez, Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman, Wendy Ng
17:00-17:15 Virtual toast with all members Prize for best paper by a young academic

18:00-19:30 Annex session 6