Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Fourteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 16 - Saturday, September 17, 2022
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern will present the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy to be held in-person on Friday, September 16th and Saturday, September 17th, 2022.
Additional details will be forthcoming.
Thirteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 17, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission Deadline: May 17, 2021)
The Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern will present the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy to be held virtually via WebEx. This year’s conference will be a one-day event and will run from approximately 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (Central) on Friday, September 17, 2021.
The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy will be held in-person on Friday, September 16 — Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.
We are delighted to announce that Compass Lexecon has agreed to provide the funding to support both this year’s and next year’s conference. As always, conference organizers will be solely responsible for choosing papers and speakers.
Twelfth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 20-Saturday, September 21, 2019
The conference is co-sponsored by the Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics and the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University.
Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. To request an invitation, send an email with your full professional contact information to clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Papers
Merger Remedies in Multimarket Oligopoly (with Andrew Rhodes)
Volker Nocke, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
Concentration Screens for Horizontal Mergers (with Volker Nocke)
Michael Whinston, MIT, Department of Economics
Testing the Theory of Common Stock Ownership (with Lysle Boller)
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management
The Strategies of Anticompetitive Common Ownership (with Marcel Kahan)
C. Scott Hemphill, New York University School of Law (Keynote Address)
Steering Incentives on Platforms: Evidence from the Telecommunications Industry (with
Aviv Nevo, Zachary Nolan and Jonathan Williams)
Brian McManus, Department of Economics, University Of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions (with Kevin Bryan)
Erik Hovenkamp, USC Gould School of Law
Anticompetitive Vertical Restrictions
Joseph Farrell, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Vertical Integration and Foreclosure: Evidence from Production Network Data (with
Jan Sonntag)
Johannes Boehm, Sciences Po, Department of Economics
The Anticompetitive Effect of Minority Share Acquisitions: Evidence from the
Introduction of National Leniency Programs (with Sven Heim, Kai Huschelrath and Ulrich
Laitenberger)
Yossi Spiegel, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University
Panel on Antitrust, Regulation, and Digital Competition Policy
- Unlocking Digital Competition Report of the Digital Competition Expert Panel (Jason Furman, Chair, Digital Competition Expert Panel)
- The Case for the Digital Platform Act (Harold Feld, Senior VP, Public Knowledge)
- Competition Policy for the Digital Era (Jacques Cremer, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, and Heike Schweitzer)
- Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets (Carl Shapiro)
- Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee (Fiona Scott Morton)