Competition Economics 2014

Date: 07 May 2014

Time: 09.00

Duration: 1 day

Location: Millennium Hotel Knightsbridge, London, UK

Cost: £999 + VAT (early booking discounts available)

Organiser: IBC Legal Conferences

Web Link: http://www.ibclegal.com/FKW82456BLL

Description:

IBC’s Competition Economics conference will bring together mixed teams of experts from both law & economics to cover the key areas where these professions converge.

Key topics to be covered include:

101/CARTELS

The Commission’s settlement decisions in LIBOR/EURIBOR (and CDS)
Information exchange and price signalling
Damages for cartels in light of the pending EU Directive MERGERS
A critical review of the use of economics in mergers – is economic analysis taken seriously by the agencies?
Evaluation of efficiencies and the counterfactual in mergers
The role for economic analysis in properly calibrating merger remedies
Minority shareholdings: Case study on Ryanair
Pricing pressure analysis: recent cases and factors to consider

101/VERTICALS

The increase in "RPM" cases brought by competition authorities
Is “Internet retailing and vertical restraints”, and “Has refusing to distribute via the internet become an object infringement?”

102 TFEU CASES/ABUSE

Reverse payments (pay for delay in pharmaceutical mergers): what does economic theory tell us?
IP (SEP) cross-over
Developments in the application of margin
squeeze tests in the presence of bundling

STATE AID

Market failures assessment and the need for
State Aid interventions ADVICE
Advice to lawyers/clients on when and how best to use economists in competition cases

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