The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is organizing its annual two-day National Conference on Economics of Competition Law.

Date: 5th & 6th April, 2018
Venue: New Delhi

Objectives:
This conference aims to:

• Stimulate research and debate on contemporary issues in the field of economics of competition law
• Develop a better understanding of competition issues relevant to the Indian context
• Draw inferences for implementation of competition law in India

Call for Papers:
The conference is expected to cover a wide range of related themes. However, papers in following themes are encouraged:

• Market definition, measuring market power and abuse of dominance:
  Issues like empirical methods of defining markets, measuring market power, and assessment of exclusionary unilateral conduct etc. may be covered among others.

• Vertical restraints and competition:
  Vertical restraints can have many pro-competitive as well as anti-competitive effects. Papers may explore areas such as resale price maintenance, assignment of exclusive territories or exclusive dealing, tying and circumstances under which these restrictions have significant anti-competitive effects.

• Horizontal agreements and cartelization:
  Prohibition of collusive conduct of firms is a key component of competition law. Papers may explore issues such as economics of collusion, information exchange, price signaling, facilitating factors for cartels, detecting and discouraging cartels etc.

• Economics of platform markets and challenges for antitrust enforcement:
  New digital products and business models as well as the special characteristics of digital markets have created new challenges for enforcement and competition policy. Papers may explore new tools and techniques that the discipline of economics offers for assessing competition issues in platform markets.

• Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law:
  Competition law will be concerned not with the legitimate exercise of an IP right, but with efforts of the holders of this right to expand the scope, either to new products, or beyond a certain time or by conditioning access to the right on restrictions. Papers may explore the areas of recent concerns in the IP competition law interface.

• Price and non-price effects of mergers:
  Economic analysis is playing an increasingly important role in merger review. Papers may focus on recent developments in estimating the effects of mergers (merger simulation, diversion ratios, pricing pressure indices, etc.), the welfare effects of mergers including vertical or conglomerate mergers, issues in the use of remedies, that is, adoption of structural and/or behavioral remedies.

• Any other issues related to competition policy and law:

Who should participate?
The conference targets economists including scholars, practitioners and competition agency officials with a keen interest in competition regulation.

Conference fee:
There is no conference fee.

Important Dates:

Contact:
Competition Commission of India
The Hindustan Times House
18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi: 110001
Email: ecoseminar@cci.gov.in