Exploring the Outer Boundaries of Antitrust: Democracy, Sustainability, & Industrial Policy
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Agenda: Friday, March 24, 2023
09:00 |
Registration & Breakfast |
10:00 |
Introduction by the OrganizersLazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy, International Center for Law & Economics |
10:05 |
Opening KeynoteMaría Pilar Canedo, Board member of the Spanish Comisión Nacional de Los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) |
10:30 |
Panel 1: Is Political Power an Antitrust Problem?Filippo Lancieri, Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH ZurichGeoffrey A. Manne, President & Founder, International Center for Law & Economics Francisco Marcos, Professor of Law, IE Law School Barak Orbach, Professor of Law, University of Arizona Moderator: Jenine Hulsmann, Partner at Weil |
11:50 |
Break |
12:20 |
Panel 2: Can & Should Policymakers use Competition Enforcement to Promote Sustainability Goals?Maurits Dolmans, Partner, Cleary GottliebJulian Morris, Senior Scholar, International Center for Law & Economics Julian Nowag, Associate Professor of Law, Lund University Cento Veljanovski, Founder & Managing Partner, Case Associates Moderator: Ainhoa Veiga, Partner at Araoz & Rueda |
13:45 |
Lunch |
15:00 |
Panel 3: Antitrust and Industrial Policy or Antitrust as Industrial Policy?Frederic Jenny, Chairman, OECD Competition CommitteeWendy Ng, Associate Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School Don Rosenberg, Resident Fellow, University of California San Diego Angela Wigger, Associate Professor of International Relations, Radboud University Moderator: Lazar Radic, Senior Scholar for Competition Policy, International Center for Law & Economics |
16:20 |
Debate: Should Antitrust Pursue Broader Social Goals?Giorgio Monti, Professor of Competition Law, Tilburg Law SchoolNicolas Petit, Joint Chair in Competition Law at the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Moderator: Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit |
17:35 |
Closing RemarksGeoffrey A. Manne, President & Founder, International Center for Law & EconomicsSantiago Martinez Lage, President, Ayala de la Torre Abogados |
18:00 |
Champagne Social |
Suggested papers from the #ICLEMadrid conference
ICLE suggested Papers:
Antitrust Dystopia and Antitrust Nostalgia: Alarmist Theories of Harm in Digital Markets and Their Origins
Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk AuerThe Growing Legacy of Intel
Dirk Auer & Lazar RadicShould Antitrust Enforcement Account for Socially Desirable, but Otherwise Anticompetitive, Objectives?
Geoffrey A. Manne
Is Political Power an Antitrust Problem?
Antitrust as an Instrument of Democracy
Daniel A. CraneThe Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the United States
Filippo Lancieri, Eric A. Posner, & Luigi ZingalesThe Consumer Welfare Controversy
Barak OrbachDo Antitrust Disruptors Make Good Reformers?
Barak Orbach
Can and should policymakers use competition enforcement to promote sustainability goals?
Antitrust Policy as Applied to Private-sector Climate Cooperation
Maurits DolmansCompetition Overdose: Exploring the limitations, searching for the treatment
Various AuthorsICLE Comments- Emission Trading State Aid
Julian Morris & Dirk AuerSustainability and Competition, OECD Competition Committee Discussion Paper
Julian NowagAntitrust and Sustainability: An Introduction to an Ongoing Debate
Julian NowagThe Case Against Green Antitrust
Cento VeljanovskiCollusion as Environmental Protection—An Economic Assessment
Cento Veljanovski
Antitrust and Industrial Policy or antitrust as industrial policy?
Are Industrial Policy Instruments Effective?
Chiara Criscuolo, Nicolas Gonne, Kohei Kitazawa, Guy Lalanne (OECD)Competition Policy Retrospective: The formation of the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX
William E. KovacicThe New EU Industrial Policy and Deepening Structural Asymmetries: Smart Specialisation Not So Smart
Angela Wigger
Should antitrust pursue broader social goals?
Article 81 EC and Public Policy
Giorgio MontiSocially Responsible Agencies
Jean TiroleLabor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic
Various Authors
This event was co-organized with UC3M (Antonio Robles) and financed, in part, by the following plan: Plan Nacional de I+D del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PID2020-114549RB-I00).
