Expert Forum: Dynamic Competition in Market Definition and Merger Review

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Cornerstone Research and the Dynamic Competition Initiative (DCI) will host this half-day event focused on trends and challenges in European competition and merger policy.

Two speaker panels of academic, industry, regulatory and private practice experts will share insights on a range of topics, from the innovation-enhancing effects of mergers to the impact of market definition issues.

Session 1

Revising EU Merger Guidelines: Towards Effective and Broader Efficiency Defences
  • Mario Draghi’s ‘innovation defence’
  • Long-term investment from merger innovation gains
  • Priority sectors for stronger efficiency defences
  • Security and resilience assessments in competition policy

Session 2

Hard Questions about Market Definition and Dynamic Competition
  • R&D markets in non-pipeline industries
  • The impact of market definition issues antitrust outcomes
  • Economic indicators of dynamic competition and the role of structural analysis
  • How existing laws and policies address dynamic competition

Featured Presentation

Aviv Nevo Interviews Guillaume Loriot
Priorities for DG COMP for 2025 and Beyond

Guillaume Loriot
Deputy Director-General
Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP)

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Aviv Nevo
George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor,
University of Pennsylvania


Speakers

Andrew Swan
  • Location icon London
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Andrew Swan

Vice President

Gregor Langus
  • Location icon Brussels
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Gregor Langus

Vice President*

Aviv Nevo

Aviv Nevo

George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor,
University of Pennsylvania

Additional Panellists

Marion Bailly
Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP)
Lars Kjølbye
Latham & Watkins 
Vijay Iyer
Booking.com
Anna Tzanaki
University of Leeds
Nicholas Banasevic
Microsoft
Griet Jans
Belgian Competition Authority
Nicolas Petit
Department of Law, European University Institute
Philipp Girardet
Clifford Chance


This expert forum is supported by the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Law, European University Institute (EUI).

For questions, please email events@cornerstone.com.