06 Jun 2013
6-7 June 2013, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Always at the heart of competition policy, institutions have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. New agencies have been created in transition states, while established authorities in Europe have undergone change and reform. Curiously, the growing consensus on the principles and practise of competition policy has not been accompanied by a convergence on organisational form or legal frameworks. With an audience approaching 100 delegates, the conference brought together a multidisciplinary group of renowned economists, historians, legal scholars and political scientists from both academic and practitioner backgrounds. The conference assessed the importance of institutional design, analysed the impact of institutions and investigated processes of organisational and legal change. The event was held at the UEA Drama Studio, our ever-popular venue which has, for many years, provided an ideal backdrop for rigorous academic debate. Several of the speakers at this year's conference were interviewed about the main points from their presentations. You can see the video of these interviews .
DAY 1 Thursday 6th June
Session 1: Institutions
Prof Bill Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy & Director of Competition Law Center, George Washington University: 'Institutions and Competition Policy: Structure, Conduct, Performance'
Session 2: History
Laurent Warlouzet, Lecturer in History, Université d’Artois and Marie Curie Fellow, LSE: The institutional framework of EEC competition policy: European debates and national models (1956-1991)’
Stephen Martin, Professor of Economics, Purdue University: ‘Shaping Antitrust Institutions’
Session 3: Effectiveness
Tomaso Duso, Professor of Empirical Industrial Economics, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics: “The evaluation of Competition Policy Enforcement and Institutions”
Bruce Lyons, Professor Economics, CCP and School of Economics, UEA: “What Determines the Reputation of Competition Agencies?”
Stephen Davies, Professor Economics, CCP and School of Economics, UEA: Evaluating Competition Policy when faced with Inevitable Selection Bias’
Session 4: Networks
Imelda Maher, Professor in European Law, University College Dublin: “Transparency and Networks: Accounting for Governance in the Competition Sphere”
Hussein Kassim, Professor of Politics, School of Political, Social and International Studies, UEA and co-presenting Kathryn Wright, Lecturer in York Law School: Influence and power in international networks: ECN’
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Day 2: Friday 7th June 2013
Session 5: Reform I
David Gerber, Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law: ‘Competition Law and Institutional Change: European Trajectories’
Francisco Marcos, Professor of Law, IE Law School, Madrid: Institutional experimentation? The integration of competition law and regulation enforcement in Spain’
Session 6: Reform II
Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Professor of Economics, Co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics (ACLE): The new Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM)?'
Thibaud Vergé, Chief Economist, Autorité de la Concurrence, France: French institutional reform and the quality of competition decisions’
Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive Designate, UK Competition and Markets Authority: ‘The new Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’
Session 7: Enforcement
Peter Freeman, Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal, UK: Competition decision making and judicial control – the role of the specialist tribunal’
Jacques Steenburgen, Faculty of Law, KU Leuven and Director General of the Belgian Competition Authority: ‘Design of institutions for competition policy: the relative merits of inquisitorial and prosecutorial models’
Session 8: Emerging Economies
Hassan Qaqaya, Head, Competition law and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD, Switzerland: ‘Problems and effectiveness of competition policy in emerging economies’
Sean Ennis, Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): ‘Emerging Economies: Different Economic Problems, Same Competition Law?’