Feb
Making digital markets work for people – Fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare in dialogue
Have you also been totally immersed in discussions about competition law and economics of digital markets and artificial intelligence, more narrowly, issues relating to fairness and consumer welfare in those contexts?
The intersection of fairness and competition law has noted a revival with added focus on digital markets and tech giants in the EU through the enactment of e.g. Digital Markets Act and a range of ongoing investigations against e.g. Apple and Google.
The conference thus seeks to explore the implication of fairness as a competition law and regulatory concept applied to e.g. digital and AI markets, focusing on the normative implications for enforcement of competition law and regulatory tools such as the Digital Markets Act and the EU AI Act in digital and algorithmic markets.
The conference also involves selected presentations from leading and emerging Nordic and European scholars relate to the European regulation and intervention in the digital economy, with a particular interest in the normative justification and practical implications of specific measures (e.g., DSA, DMA, AI Act) and the interconnection between fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare regarding competition law and economics of digital and AI markets.
Keynote speakers include a range of leading names in the field, such as Prof. Alexander Cappelen (FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics), Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University), Björn Lundqvist (Stockholm University), Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento) as well as Johan Sahl (Swedish Competition Authority). The round table discussion will feature Jörgen Hettne, Head of Department of Business Law, LUSEM, Amir Mohseni, Partner, Bokwall and Rislund, Behrang Kianzad, Department of Business Law, LUSEM (moderator).
In addition to the keynote- and round table speakers, the conference will also feature several other speakers, see full programme either below or the flippable version:
Programme
08.30 Registration & Morning Coffee
09.00 Welcome address
Professor Joakim Gullstrand
Dean at LUSEM
09.05 Practical information by the conference organisers
09.10 Keynote 1
Fairness and paternalism
Alexander Cappelen
FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics
09.30 – 11.00 Session 1
Working Towards What?
Lyuxing Thao
Durham University
Consumer Choice Trumps Consumer Welfare: The Best Springboard for ‘Fairness’ in DMA to Reach Consumers
Nada Ina Pauer
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Philosophical Impetus to Determine Fair Market Conduct – Ascertaining Fairness Theorems for Digital Markets.
Mario Iacovides et alia
Uppsala University
The New Goals of EU Competition Law: Sustainability, Labour Rights, and Privacy.
Fabrizio Esposito
Nova Law School
Consumer Welfare Standard, fairness and Efficiency in Dialogue.
Chair: Dr. Behrang Kianzad, Department of Business Law, LUSEM
11.00 Swedish Fika
11.30 – 13.00 Session 2
AI and Data for the People
Luca Arnaudo
Italian Competition Authority
Algorithmic Pricing and Price Controls: Ways Ahead.
Sarah Al Jashi
Tilburg University
Lessons about Art. 102 TFEU and Excessive Data Extractions in the Era of Big Data.
Thomas Eger et alia
University of Hamburg
Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law in the EU – An Economic Perspective.
Ruben Verdoodt
KU Leuven
Scrutinising AI partnerships: win-win or winner-takes-all?
Chair: Dr. Johan Axhamn
Department of Business Law, LUSEM
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 Keynote 2
Fabiana di Porto
University of Salento
Research Methods in Competition Law: Identifying and Evaluating Welfare Standards Across Doctrinal, Empirical, and Computational Approaches.
14.30 – 16.00 Session 3
Competition, Regulation & Innovation
Dr. Behrang Kianzad and Dr. Johan Axhamn
LUSEM
Abuse of data as an unfair practice between competition and regulation of digital markets.
Elisabeth Wondracek
Heinrich Heine University
Fundamental rights in digital markets – a theory of harm or an isolated Facebook-phenomenon?
Maria Jose Schmidt
Central European University
The Role of EU Platform Regulation and Competition Law in Enhancing Fairness on Digital Music Markets.
Hedvig K Schmidt
University of Southhampton
The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law - Fairness, Market Power and Innovation.
Chair: Dr. Fabrizio Esposito
Nova Law School
16.00 Swedish Fika
16.20 Keynote 3
Kalpana Tyagi
Maastricht University
When Fairness, Innovation and Access met: A trilateral dilemma at the convergence of pharma & digital innovation.
16.40 Keynote 4
Björn Lundqvist
University of Stockholm
Self-preferencing under competition law.
17.00 Closing Roundtable Discussion
Johan Sahl (Swedish Competition Authority), Prof. Jörgen Hettne (LUSEM), Prof. Alexander Cappelen (University of Bergen), Prof. Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University), Prof. Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento), Prof. Björn Lundqvist (University of Stockholm), Amir Mohseni (Bokwall och Rislund), Behrang Kianzad (LUSEM).
18.00 Final Remarks by Prof. Jörgen Hettne, Dean of Department of Business Law, LUSEM
18.05 End of Conference
20.00 Conference Dinner for speakers and keynotes
The conference is organized by Behrang Kianzad and Johan Axhamn at LUSEM and Fabrizio Espostio of Nova Law School, Lisbon, in collaboration with ACLU. The conference is made possible by generous grants by Center for European Studies at Lund University, AI Lund as well as Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Johan & Jakob Söderbergs Stiftelse.
About the event
Location:
EC2:101, LUSEM (Lund University School of Economics and Management), Tycho Brahes väg 1, Lund
Contact:
fabian [dot] vukic [at] har [dot] lu [dot] se