Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Sixteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 20 - Saturday, September 21, 2024
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 Sixteenth Annual Northwestern Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy to be held in-person Friday, September 20, 2024 - Saturday, September 21, 2024.
The Call for Papers for the 2024 conference will be forthcoming in Spring 2024.
Please note that attendance at this event is by invitation only.
For additional details, please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Fifteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 22 - Saturday, September 23, 2023
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 Fifteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy to be held in-person Friday, September 22, 2023 - Saturday, September 23, 2023.
This year’s conference will feature Keynote Addresses by Carl Shapiro, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business (on leave as Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice); Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics (on leave as Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission); and Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School.
The conference will also feature a Panel Discussion on The Draft U.S. Merger Guidelines.
- Moderator: Carl Shapiro, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
- Michael Katz, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- Nancy L. Rose, MIT Department of Economics
- Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management
- Howard Shelanski, Georgetown Law
- Michael Whinston, MIT Department of Economics and School of Management
For Reference
- 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines (U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission)
Please note that attendance at this event is by invitation only.
Papers
How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices? (with Dirk Bergman and Nick Wu)
Alessandro Bonatti, MIT Sloan School of Management
Self-Preferencing and Search Neutrality In Online Retail Platforms (with Tianxin Zou)
Bo “Bobby” Zhou, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Multiproduct Cost Passthrough: Edgeworth’s Paradox Revisited (with Mark Armstrong)
John Vickers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics
In the Shadow of Antitrust Enforcement: Price Effects of Hospital Mergers From 2009-2016 (with Keith Brand and Ted Rosenbaum)
Christopher Garmon, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Is there Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? (with Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig and Lev Klarnet)
Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago
Bargaining and Dynamic Competition (with Shanglyu Deng, Dun Jia, and Mario Leccese)
Andrew Sweeting, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
Mergers that Matter: The Impact of M&A Activity in Prescription Drug Markets (with Josh Feng, Thomas Hwang and Yunjuan Liu)
Luca Maini, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence From Power Plants (with Omer Karaduman)
Mert Demirer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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.
This year’s conference will feature Keynote Addresses by Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business (on leave as Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice); and John Kwoka, Department of Economics, Northeastern University (on leave as Chief Economist to the Chair, U.S. Federal Trade Commission).
The conference will also feature a Panel Discussion on Revisions to the U.S. Merger Guidelines.
- Moderator: John Kwoka, Department of Economics, Northeastern University (on leave as Chief Economist to the Chair, U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
- Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business (on leave as Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (on leave as Principal Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice)
- Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics
- Nancy L. Rose, MIT Department of Economics
Please note that attendance at this event is by invitation only.
Papers
Shelving or Developing? Optimal Policy for Mergers with Potential Competitors (with Massimo Motta and Emanuele Tarantino)
Chiara Fumagalli, Bocconi University
Are ‘Vertical’ Mergers Between Hospitals and Physicians Anticompetitive? (with Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Joseph Martinez, Fiona Scott Morton and Ashley Swanson)
Matthew Grennan, Haas School, University of California, Berkeley
Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel (with Amanda Starc)
Thomas Wollmann, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Mergers, Entry, and Consumer Welfare (with Peter Cardonna and Gloria Sheu)
Nathan Miller, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence (with Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Frank Yang)
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Personalized Pricing and Competition (with Andrew Rhodes)
Jidong Zhou, Yale School of Management
Have Mergers Raised Prices? Evidence from U.S. Retail (with Vivek Bhattacharya and Gaston Illanes)
David Stillerman, American University, Kogod School of Business
Tying in Markets with Network Effects (with Doh-shin Jeon and Michael Whinston)
Jay Pil Choi, Department of Economics, Michigan State University
For additional information please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Thirteenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
Friday, September 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.
Papers
Platform Design When Sellers Use Pricing Algorithms (with Andrew Rhodes and Matthijs Wildenbeest)
Justin P. Johnson, Cornell University
Insider Imitation (with Nikhil Vellodi)
Erik Madsen, Department of Economics, New York University
Incomplete Information Bargaining with Applications to Mergers, Investment and Vertical Integration
(Appendix) (with Leslie Marx)
Simon Loertscher, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
(with Miguel Antón, Mireia Giné and Martin Schmalz)
Florian Ederer, Yale School of Management
Competition Policy and Big Tech: The European Approach: The Digital Markets Act Proposal (presentation slides)
Monika Schnitzer, Department of Economics, University of Munich
For registration details please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu
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)