09 Jun 2025
CCP Annual Conference on Frontiers of Competition and Regulation 2025 | 9-10 June 2025
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The Centre for Competition Policy is a world-leading multi-disciplinary research centre on competition, regulation and consumer policy. Based at the University of East Anglia, it includes members and fellows from Europe and around the world. In addition to research and professional development courses, the CCP organises an annual conference on the frontiers of competition law and policy with a particular focus on applied research of potential interest to policymakers and practitioners.
Scope and objectives
This year’s conference will continue the CCP tradition of conferences focused on timely policy questions. A balanced perspective will be sought, in line with the CCP position of academic neutrality. The conference is aimed to be of interest to policymakers, practitioners and academics.
Main Topics
Business, Economic, Legal, and Political Science Research on
- Concentration in Hospital Markets
- Limits of Competition and Regulators
- Pharmaceuticals and Competition Policy
- Adapting Financial Markets to AI
- Boundaries of Digital Regulation
- Behavioural Remedies and Mergers
Featured Speakers
Martin Gaynor (Keynote) (Carnegie Mellon)
Jenny Haydock (Keynote) (Competition Markets Authority)
Anna Rita Bennato (Loughborough Business School)
Farasat Bokhari (Loughborough University)
Javier Boncompte (University College London)
Friso Bostoen (Tilburg University)
Sandra Marco Colino (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Stephen Dnes (Royal Holloway London)
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics)
Margaret Kyle (Ecole des Mines)
Miroslava Marinova (University of East London)
Raphael Markellos (University of East Anglia)
Przemysław Ostojski (Warsaw Justice Academy)
Joe Perkins (FTI Consulting, Queens’ College, Cambridge)
Russell Pittman (Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice)
Carol Propper (Imperial College, Monash University)
Alejandro Medina Sandín (University of Verona)
Maria Jose Schmidt-Kessen (Central European University)
Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University)
Florian Szücs (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)
As a multi-disciplinary research centre, we encourage and welcome research across all of our disciplines, whether business, economic, legal or political science.
Across many business activities -- from digital to energy, from sports to water, from foreign investment rules on security to rules on subsidies and CO2 -- increasing policy focus is placed on regulatory outcomes, both in legislation and government action. This regulatory focus does not necessarily mean the role of competition law is directly diminished, nor that traditional regulation of market power is weakened, though it may involve realignment in response to perceived weaknesses of the market system, particularly in the consideration of externalities.
Where are the UK, EU and US governments heading in terms of ex ante/ex post regulation, role of competition law and consideration of other objectives that arise from presumed or proven market power?
These are just some of the questions that will be asked as we reach a pivotal time for regulation in many jurisdictions and sectors.
Scientific Committee
Farasat Bokhari (Loughborough Business School)
Sean Ennis (Norwich Business School)
Amelia Fletcher (Norwich Business School)
Luke Garrod (Loughborough Business School)
Kai-Uwe Kühn (Centre for Competition Policy)
Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University and University of East Anglia)
Andreas Stephan (UEA Law School)
Sara Guidi (UEA Law School)
Conference
For conference organisation matters, please contact ccp@uea.ac.uk.
For any further information, including for sponsorship opportunities, please send an email to ccp@uea.ac.uk.
Thanks to our Gold Sponsor, Clifford Chance