INSTITUTIONS AND COMPETITION POLICY, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Annual Summer Conference, 6-7 June 2013

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INSTITUTIONS AND COMPETITION POLICY
ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Annual Summer Conference
6-7 June 2013

Thursday 6 June 2013
10:00 – 10:50	Registration and Tea/Coffee/Pastries
SESSION 1 INSTITUTIONS Chair: Hussein Kassim, CCP and School of Political, Social & International Studies, UEA
10:50 – 11:00	Welcome: Morten Hviid, Professor of Law, CCP Director & UEA Law School
11:00 – 11:45	Bill Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy & Director of Competition Law Center at George Washington University - 'Institutions and competition policy'
SESSION 2 HISTORY Chair: Pinar Akman, CCP & UEA Law School
11:45 – 12:30	Laurent Warlouzet, Lecturer in History, Université d'Artois and Marie Curie Fellow, LSE - 'Evolution of European competition policy'
12:30 – 13:15	Stephen Martin, Professor of Economics, Purdue University - 'Institutional context and the goals of competition policy''
13:15 – 14:00	Lunch
SESSION 3 EFFECTIVENESS Chair: Amelia Fletcher, Professor of Competition Policy, CCP & Norwich Business School
14:00 -14:45	Tomaso Duso, Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics - 'The Evaluation of Competition Policy Enforcement and Institution''
14:45 – 15:30	Bruce Lyons, Professor Economics, CCP and School of Economics, UEA- 'What Determines the Reputation of Competition Agencies?'
15:30 – 16.15	Stephen Davies, Professor Economics, CCP and School of Economics, UEA - 'Deterrence and Non-detection: Evaluating Competition Policy when faced with Inevitable Selection Bias'
16:15-16:30	Tea/Coffee
SESSION 4 NETWORKS Chair: Catherine Waddams, CCP Founding Director & Norwich Business School
16:30 – 17:15	Imelda Maher, Professor in European Law, University College Dublin - 'Transparency and Networks: Accounting for Governance in the Competition Sphere'
17:15 – 18:00	Hussein Kassim, Professor of Politics, School of Political, Social and International Studies, UEA - ‘Influence and power in international networks: ECN and ICN'
18:15	Coach to restaurant
18:45	Drinks
19:30 – 22:30	Dinner

 

 

Friday 7 June 2013
08:45 – 09:00	Late Registration and Tea/Coffee/Pastries
SESSION 5 REFORM I Chair: Morten Hviid, Professor of Law, CCP Director & UEA Law School
09:00 – 09:45	David Gerber, Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law - ‘The evolution of and the interaction between EU and national competition policy: the last 15 years'
09:45 – 10:30	Francisco Marcos, Professor of Law, IE Law School, Madrid - ‘Institutional reform in Spain'
10:30 – 10:45	Tea/Coffee
SESSION 6 REFORM II Chair: Bruce Lyons, CCP Deputy Director & School of Economics, UEA
10:45 – 11:30	Thibaud Verge, Chief Economist, Autorite de la Concurrence, France - ‘French institutional reform and the quality of competition decisions'
11:30 – 12:15	Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive Designate, UK Competition and Markets Authority - ‘The new Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)'
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch
SESSION 7 ENFORCEMENT Chair: Michael Harker, CCP & UEA Law School
13:15 – 14:00	[Speaker] (tbc)
14:00 – 14:45	Peter Freeman, Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal, UK - 'Competition decision-making and judicial control – the role of the specialist tribunal'
14:45 – 15:00	Tea
SESSION 8 EMERGING ECONOMIES Chair: Andreas Stephan, CCP & UEA Law School
15:00 – 15:45	Hassan Qaqaya, Head, Competition law and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD, Switzerland - ‘Problems and effectiveness of competition policy in emerging economies'
15:45 – 16:30	Sean Ennis, Executive Director, Competition Commission of Mauritius - "When Different Economic Problems Reign, What are the Implications for Competition Law Design and Application?"
16:30 – 16:40	Concluding remarks: Bruce Lyons, Deputy Director, CCP and School of Economics, UEA,
16:45	Delegates depart