Agenda
(Download pdf)III Lisbon Conference on Competition Law and Economics
Venue: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Lisbon
14th - 15th January 2010
Thursday, 14th January 2010
9h00 - 10h00 Opening Ceremony - Signing of Protocol of Technical Cooperation between the Brazilian Competition Policy System (BCPS) and the PCA
- José Vieira da Silva, Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Development
- Mariana Tavares de Araújo, Secretary of Economic Law of Brazil
- Rui Vilar, President, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Manuel Sebastião, President, Portuguese Competition Authority (PCA)
10h00 - 12h00 Panel I: Two-Sided Markets: A challenge for competition policy and regulation?
Payment systems and advertising are two examples of markets that exhibit important complementarities between groups of agents (e.g. card users, card issuers and merchants; or media companies, advertisers and viewers). These complementarities, or network effects, raise difficult but important efficiency and competition issues. Is market power problematic? Is regulation desirable? If so, what kind of regulation?
Moderator: Vítor Bento CEO, SIBS Forward Payment Solutions
Speakers
- Professor Michael Katz Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Dr David Evans Lecturer, University of Chicago
Executive Director, Jevons Institute for Competition and Economics
Visiting Professor, University College London - Sir Christopher Bellamy Senior Consultant, Linklaters, LLP
12h00 - 12h30 Guest Speaker: Robust Competition Decisions - the Quest for the Holy Grail
This talk will examine what is the proper result of a competition investigation, including the necessary constituent elements of the theoretical framework, analysis and facts, and considering the appropriate balance between fairness, thoroughness and timeliness in coming to a decision.
- Peter Freeman Chairman, UK Competition Commission
14h00 - 16h00 Panel II: Energy Markets: To what extent can competition, security of supply and environmental protection be reconciled?
EU Energy Policy aims at reconciling competition concerns, security of supply and environmental protection. Is this a credible goal? Is a laissez-faire approach to energy markets better able to deal with the different trade-offs between these aims, particularly in a politically volatile world? What are the main virtues and drawbacks of a liberalised energy market? How best to deal with market failures and with regulatory uncertainty? How best to guarantee fuel diversity in electricity generation systems so as to promote security of supply? What can we learn from the US experience?
Mariana Tavares de Araújo Secretary of Economic Law, Brazil
Speakers
- Professor James Bushnell University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley
- Professor Frank Wolak Department of Economics, Stanford University
- Céline Gauer Head of Unit - Antitrust: Energy and Environment,
European Commission - DG Competition
16h15 - 18h00 Panel III: Competition Policy in Times of Crisis: which enforcement practices best fit the principles?
In a serious economic downturn, what is the possible balance between the enforcement of national economic policy principles and the enforcement of competition law? A discussion of EU and US experiences.
Moderator: Luís Pais Antunes Partner, PLMJ - A. M. Pereira, Sáragga Leal, Oliveira Martins, Júdice e Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL
Speakers
- William E. Kovacic Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission
- Dr. Carl Baudenbacher President of the EFTA Court
- Professor Lars-Hendrik Röller President, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
Friday, 15th January 2010
09h30 - 10h00 Philip Lowe Director General, DG Competition, European Commission
10h00 - 13h30 Panel IV: Intellectual Property and Competition - complementary policies? The case of the software and pharmaceutical industries
An ideal system of intellectual property rights balances the incentives for innovators and innovation against the benefits from bringing innovation to the consumer at a low price. Are patents and patent policy doing the job? ?Pay for delay? deals, patent thickets and the increase in patent litigation suggest that all is not well with the current system. What should be done?
Moderator: Professor Luís Cabral IESE Business School
Speakers
- Professor Frank Lichtenberg Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
- Eric Morgan de Rivery Partner, Jones Day, Paris/Brussels
- Professor Richard Gilbert Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- Julia Holtz Senior Competition Counsel - EMEA, China, India, Google UK Limited
- Jean Yves Art Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
- David Schmidt Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics, US Federal Trade Commission
15h00 - 17h00 Panel V: Competition Policy and Single Firm Conduct: Recent developments in the EU and the US. What consequences in terms of enforcement actions?
In recent years, major debates about unilateral conduct have taken place both in the EU and the US. These debates resulted in the publication of the EU Guidelines on Article 82: Enforcement Priorities; and the US DoJ Report on Competition and Monopoly: Single Firm Conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, since then withdrawn by the new Administration. What consequences will these recent developments have in terms of enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic?
Moderator: Frédéric Jenny Chairman, OECD Competition Committee
Speakers
- Damien Neven Chief Competition Economist, European Commission - DG Competition
- Thomas O. Barnett Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
- Bo Vesterdorf Senior Consultant, Plesner, Copenhagen and Herbert Smith, LLP, London
17h00 Closing Ceremony