Time: November 19, 2018, 10:00am
Location: Centre for European Policy Studies, 1 Place du Congres, 1000 Brussels
The growing importance of big data, artificial intelligence, and algorithms has stimulated an intense debate about their implications for competition law. This conference, which will also feature a keynote address by former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Maureen Ohlhausen, will explore the technical and economic foundations of big data and examine the proper application of concepts such as algorithmic collusion, abuse of dominance, and merger analysis.
The conference is co-organized by the Mannheim Center for Competition and Innovation of the University of Mannheim, and the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, supported by the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Speakers:
Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Fetzer, University of Mannheim
Andrea Renda, CEPS
Keynote Address
Maureen Ohlhausen, Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Panel 1: The Technical and Economical Foundations of Big Data
Ashwin Ittoo, HEC Management School, University of Liege
Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
Paul Belleflamme, UC Louvain
Panel 2: Algorithmic Collusion
Joseph Harrington, University of Pennsylvania
Kai-Uwe Kuhn, University of East Anglia
Birgit Krueger, German Federal Cartel Office
Address on Big data under China's Anti-Monopoly Law
Yong Huang, University of International Business and Economics
Panel 3: Big Data and Abuse of Dominance
Anja Lambrecht, London Business School
Inge Graef, Tilburg Law School
Jan Kraemer, University of Passau
Panel 4: Big Data and Mergers
Torsten Körber, University of Cologne
Alexandre de Streel, University of Namur
Damien Geradin, Tilburg Law and Economics Center