PROGRAM

Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the eight annual conference on competition policy. See full program HERE.

Location: NHH Norwegian School of Economics.
Auditorium: N, Q & P. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Frank Verboven, University of Leuven
• Thibault Schrepel, Vrije University of Amsterdam

INVITED SESSIONS

In addition, there will be four invited sessions with three invited speakers on each session

The future of Article 102:

• Thomas Vinje (chair) (Clifford Chance and BECCLE/UiB))
• Massimiliano Kadar (Deputy Head of Unit ‘Antitrust Telecoms’, DG COMP, the European Commission)
• Oliver Bethell (director, EMEA competition at Google)
• Christian Bergqvist (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) (NN)

Market design in power markets:

• Natalia Fabra (chair) (Universidad Carlos III and BECCLE/NHH)

• Bert Willems (Tilburg University)

• Matti Liski (Aalto University School of Business)

Merger policy:

• Tina Søreide (moderator) (Norwegian Competition Authority)

• Tommaso Valletti (chair) (Imperial College London and BECCLE/NHH))

• Aviv Nevo (FTC and Univ Pennsylvania)

• Hans Zenger (European Commission)

Competition Policy and Labour Markets: Are National Competition Authorities on Point?

• Hans-Petter Håvås Hanson (Chair), Chief Economist, Norwegian Competition Authority

• Marta Rocha, Acting Chief Economist, Autoridade da Concorrência

• Jakob Schneebacher, Assistant Director of Econometrics, Competition and Market Authority

• Alexander L.P. Willén, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics

REGISTRATION

The BECCLE conference is open also for persons not presenting a paper. There is no conference fee. We offer lunch free of charge to all attendees. REGISTER HERE.  

CONTACT

For any questions, please contact the organising committee by using the following email address: beccle@nhh.no

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

For the open sessions, we now invite submissions of original research papers. Papers should be in the field of competition law and economics. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as case studies. Lawyers are especially encouraged to submit papers (working papers or published papers) or extended abstracts. 

Papers should be submitted as a pdf-file to beccle.papers@nhh.no, no later than February 1, 2024. 

Authors of accepted papers will be notified no later than March 10, 2024. All papers will be allocated a discussant, and presenters may be asked to discuss a paper. 

More about how to submit your paper HERE