Thursday, June 24, 2021
ASCOLA 2021 conference
Program of 16th Annual ASCOLA (Virtual) Conference
1-3 July 2021
Important: times indicated are Central European Summer Time (CEST, utc+2, Brussels time). Check your time at time.it
Elaborate program follows immediately after condensed version.
Conference website: http://law.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/ascola
THURSDAY July 1, 2021
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
14:05-15:50 Main event Panel II
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
FRIDAY July 2, 2021
9:00-11:00 Annex session 3
12:10-13:55 Main event Panel III
14:05-15:50 Main event Panel IV
16:00-16:45 Economic expert Panel: Innovation Economics
Richard Gilbert (Berkeley), Monika Schnitzer (Ludwig Maximilian University)
Moderator: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College, London)
18:00-20:30 Annex session 4 (partly in Portuguese)
Saturday July 3, 2021
9:00-11:20 Annex session 5
12:00-14:00 Main event Panel V
14:15-16:00 Main event Panel VI
16:00-17:00 Panel on Career challenges: How to make and maintain an academic career (not just as a woman)
Moderators: Rupprecht Podszun & 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
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Main Program (Annexed Sessions follow separately) |
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Thursday, 1st July |
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12:00 – 12:10 |
Welcome by ASCOLA President, Michal Gal Zoom: Zurich 1 |
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12:10 – 13:55 |
Algorithms and Antitrust |
Platforms |
Collaboration and Cartels |
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Session Chair: Giorgio Monti · Nicolo Zingales, "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" Zoom: Zurich 1 |
Session Chair: Valeria Falce · 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 concept of secondary relevant market" · Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall Van Alstyne, "Platform mergers and antitrust" Zoom: Zurich 2 |
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 Mário da Silva 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" Zoom: Zurich 3 |
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14:05 – 15:50 |
General Perspectives |
Market Power |
Developing Economies |
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Session Chair: Dan Rubinfeld · John M. Newman, "The Output-Welfare Fallacy" · Giorgio Monti, "Balancing in Competition Law" · Ramsi Woodcock, "How Antitrust Really Works: A Theory of Input Control and Discriminatory Supply" · Harry First, Spencer Weber Waller, "Bespoke Antitrust" · Michelle Meagher, "A Systems Approach to Antitrust Reform" Zoom: Zurich 1 |
Session Chair: Paul Nihoul · Salil K. Mehra, "“Chickenization,” Data-Monopsony and Competition Law" · Alexandre de Streel, "Digital Attention Intermediaries: A Competition Law Perspective" · Noga Blickstein Shchory, Michal Gal, "Market Power Parasites: Abusing the power of digital intermediaries to harm competition" · Petar Petrov, "Dominance, Super-Dominance, and Gatekeeper Status: Variable Shades of Market Power in Digital Markets" · Anna Gerbrandy, Lisanne Hummel, Laura F. Lalikova, Viktorija Morozovaite, Pauline Phoa, "Power in the digital society: A taxonomy of the composite power of Big Tech companies and a theory of Modern Bigness" Zoom: Zurich 2 |
Session Chair: Eleanor Fox · Dina I. Waked, "Antitrust Statistics: empirical evidence from developing countries 1990-2020" · Taimoon Stewart, "Competition Regimes in the Caribbean Community and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparison" · Andrés Felipe Suárez, Juan David Gutiérrez, "Competition policy, regulation and development in Latin America: Does competition advocacy join the dots?" · Nora Memeti, "Digital Acquistions and their enforcement in the Arab region" · Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru, "Jurisdictional Conflicts and COMESA Competition Commission’s Supranationalism" Zoom: zurich 3 |
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16:00 – 16:45 |
Keynote Prof. Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) "Antitrust: What went Wrong and How to Fix it" Zoom: Zurich1 |
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16:45-16:55 |
Virtual toast with all members Zoom: Zurich1 |
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16:55-17:30 |
Happy hour for spontaneous virtual meetings (if you have the time!) Zoom: Zurich1 |
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Friday, 2nd July |
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12:10 – 13:55 |
Competition in Specific Industries |
Regulation of Agreements |
Abuse |
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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” · Todd Davies, Zlatina Georgieva, "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"
Zoom: Dusseldorf 1 |
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” Zoom: Dusseldorf 2 |
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 & Economic Dependence in Chile. Any Room for Competition Theories of Harm without Dominance?" Zoom: Haifa 1 |
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14:05– 15:50 |
Digital Competition |
Enforcement Challenges |
Competition, Innovation, and IP |
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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" Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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)"
Zoom: Dusseldorf 2 |
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"
Zoom: Haifa 1 |
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16:00 – 16:45 |
Economic expert Panel: Innovation Economics Richard Gilbert (Berkeley), Monika Schnitzer (Ludwig Maximilian University) Moderator: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College, London) Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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Saturday, 3rd July |
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12:00 – 14:00 |
EU law |
Antitrust in Asia |
Remedies |
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Session Chair: Peter Picht · Barry J Rodger, "Beyond ECN+ Directive – Empirical Study Mapping Judicial review of national competition law decisions" · Liesbet Van Acker, "The Vacillation of Dual Distribution – An analysis in light of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation review" · Alexandre Ruiz Feases, "Sharpening the European Commission’s tools: interim measures" · 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." Zoom: Haifa2 |
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"
Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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" · Cristina Poncibò, Andrea Piletta Massaro, "The rise of third-party litigation funding in private damage actions for the breach of competition law in Europe" · Omar Vasquez Duque, "Forced Choice vs. Inertia? An Exploratory Analysis of Choice Screens Applied in the European Microsoft Antitrust Case"
Zoom: Haifa1 |
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14:15 – 16:00 |
Mergers |
Competition and Other Policies |
Antitrust Challenges |
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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" Zoom: Haifa2 |
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"
Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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"
Zoom: Haifa1 |
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16:00-17:00 |
Panel on Career Challenges: How to make and maintain an academic career (not just as a woman) Moderators: Rupprecht Podszun & Kati Cseres Panelists: Anna Gerbrandy (tbc), Juan David Gutiérrez, Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman, Wendy Ng
Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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17:00 – 17:15 |
Virtual toast with all members Prize for best paper by young academic Zoom: Dusseldorf1 |
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Annexed Sessions: 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" 10:20-11:00 Panel on Computational Antitrust. Moderator: Fabiana di Porto; Panellists: Ioannis Lianos, Felix Chang, Thomas Cheng, Julian Nowag Zoom: Zurich4
Annex Session 2: 18:00-20:00 CEST, 1st July 18:00-19:20 Challenging the Basics Session chair: Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman · Magali Eben, "The Antitrust Market does not Exist: Pursuit of Objectivity in a Purposive Process" · Oles Andriychuk, "The Concept of Reasonableness in Competition Law: Addressing the Means/Ends Dichotomy" · Ignacio García-Perrote Martínez, "Apple Inc. v Pepper et al.: Passing-on at a crossroads?" · Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda, "The passing-on defense: Some lessons from the truck's cartel case" 19:20-20:00 Panel on "How a paper is born" Moderator: Magali Eben; Panelists: José Azar, Marios Iacovides, Sara Bensley Zoom: Zurich5
Annex Session 3: 9:00-11:00 CEST, 2nd July 9:00-10:20 Intersection with other policies Session Chair: Maciej Bernatt · Jurgita Malinauskaite, Fatih Buğra Erdem, "Competition Law and Sustainability in the EU: National Competition Authorities’ perspectives" · Claudio Lombardi, Tomaso Ferrando, "An Environmentally And Socially Broken Global Food System: What Role For Competition Law?" · Kati Cseres, Agustin Reyna, "EU State aid law and consumer protection: an unsettled relationship in times of crisis" · Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, "The Price of Openness: IP and Competition Law considerations for ‘open’ dynamics in AI-related markets." · Iga Małobęcka-Szwast, "Enforcing competition, consumer and data protection law in the digital economy – how to find a way forward?" 10:20-11:00 Panel on Tips on how to win grants Moderator: Valeria Falce, Participants: Alexandre de Streel, Michal Gal, Vicente Bagnoli, Marco Botta Zoom: Dusseldorf 2
Annex Session 4: 18:00-21:00 CEST, 2nd July 18:00-19:20 Antitrust around the world Session Chair: Juliana Domingues · Marek Martyniszyn, "Minding its own Markets in a Transnational World? Extraterritoriality in EU Competition Law" · Gustavo Ghidini, Maria Bianca Armiento, "“What’s past is prologue”? The European Antitrust in times of emergencies, from Covid-19 back to the aftermath of WWII, and forth to the web titans’ superdominance." · Qianlan Wu, Xiaoye Wang, "US-EU-China Bilateral Competition Enforcement Cooperation and Trade Openness" · José de Moura Faleiros Júnior, Pietra Daneluzzi Quinelato, "Personalized prices in digital markets in light of Brazilian competition laws" · Juliana Oliveira Domingues, Fernanda Lopes Martins, Pietra Daneluzzi Quinelato, "Streaming Disney+ and competition in the fantasy world: the acquisiton 21st Century Fox by Walt Disney in Brazil" 19:20-20:00 panel on Competition and Data Protection in Latin America (in Spanish and Portuguese), Moderators: Vicente Bagnoli and Juan David Gutiérrez , Panelists: Felipe Irarrázabal, Juan Pablo Herrera, Juliana Domingues. Zoom: Brazil
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Annex Session 5: 9:00-11:20 CEST, 3rd July 9:00-10:20 Digital Markets Session chair: Thomas K Cheng · Friso Bostoen, "Self-preferencing by online platforms. The unfruitful search for ‘the theory of everything’" · Marcin Kamiński, "Self-preferencing: in pursuit of legal clarity and relevant legal tests" · Vicente Bagnoli, "Are digital platforms public utilities?" · Oles Andriychuk, "The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act: Towards a New Competition Paradigm" 10:20-11:20 Panel on the book “The Digital Economy and Competition Law in Asia” Moderator: Steven Van Uytsel; Panelists: Zoom: Haifa 1
Annex Session 6: 18:00-20:00 CEST, 3rd July 18:00-19:20 Competition Law in Specific Industries Session Chair: David Bosco · Bernadette Zelger, "Object Restrictions and Sporting Rules - A Critical Analysis of the Decision in International Skating Union v Commission" · Eleni Katopodi, "Blockchain antitrust; regulatory concerns and the ‘Diem’ example" · Marco Botta, Niccolò Galli, "It’s Unfair! Non-Price Exploitation in ICT Patents Licenses" · Niccolò Galli, "Back to Basics: Defining Markets for ICT Patents and Calculating Market Shares Thereupon" · Margherita Colangelo, "Fighting high drug prices: excessive pricing and price gouging in EU, UK and US pharmaceutical markets" 19:20-20:00 Panel on Recent Books on Global and Comparative Antitrust Moderator: David Bosco; Participants: David Gerber and Barry Hawk Zoom: Aix |
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