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.
Programme
08.30 Registration & Morning Coffee
09.00 Keynote 1
Alexander Cappelen
FAIR, Bergen University
09.30–11.00 Session 1
Working Towards What?
Juliane Mendelsohn et alia
Fairness in the DMA – Challenging a New Era of Monopoly Conduct
Nada Ina Pauer
Philosophical Impetus to Determine Fair Market Conduct – Ascertaining Fairness Theorems for Digital Markets
Mario Lacovides et alia
The New Goals of EU Competition Law: Sustainability, Labour Rights, and Privacy
Fabrizio Esposito
Consumer Welfare Standard, fairness and Efficiency in Dialogue
11.00 Swedish Fika
11.30–13.00 Session 2
AI and Data for the People
Luca Arnaudo
Algorithmic Pricing and Price Controls: Ways Ahead
Sarah Al Jashi
Lessons about Art. 102 TFEU and Excessive Data Extractions in the Era of Big Data
Thomas Eger et alia
Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law in the EU – An Economic Perspective
Ruben Verdoodt
Scrutinising AI partnerships: win-win or winner-takes-all?
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00 Keynote 2
Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento)
14.30–16.00 Session 3
Competition, Regulation & Innovation
Behrang Kianzad and Johan Axhamn
Abuse of data as an unfair practice between competition and regulation of digital markets
Elisabeth Wondracek
Fundamental rights in digital markets – a theory of harm or an isolated Facebook-phenomenon?
Maria Jose Schmidt
The Role of EU Platform Regulation and Competition Law in Enhancing Fairness on Digital Music Markets
Hedvig K Schmidt
The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law - Fairness, Market Power and Innovation
16.00 Swedish Fika
16.20 Keynote 3
Kalpana Tyagi
16.40 Keynote 4
Björn Lundqvist
17.00 Closing Roundtable Discussion
Johan Sahl (Swedish Competition Authority), Jörgen Hettne, Alexander Cappelen, Kalpana Tyagi, Fabiana di Porto, Björn Lundqvist, Amir Mohseni, Behrang Kianzad (moderator)
18.00 End of Conference
19.00 Dinner for keynotes & presenters
The conference is organized by Behrang Kianzad and Johan Axhamn at LUSEM and Fabrizio Espostio of Nova Law School, Lisbon, in collaboration with ACLU and a grant by Center for Europa Studies, Lund University.
ACLU – Affärsrättsligt Centrum vid Lunds universitet
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