ACE CONFERENCE
ACE 2024 - Milan
We are pleased to announce that the ACE 2024 conference is scheduled to take place in Milan at Bocconi University, on the 15th and 16th of November 2024. Please note that the conference will exceptionnally take place on a Friday and a Saturday!
Sir John Vickers accepted our invitation to be the keynote speaker. The plenary sessions will focus on burning antitrust topics, such as digital regulation, antitrust and AI, and the role of economics in the antitrust process.
But of course, the most distinctive characteristic of the ACE-conference are its parallel case sessions. So we hereby also launch our yearly call for competition cases to be presented.
Please send your submission by email to the ACE secretariat: conference@competitioneconomics.org
Your submission should include:
· A brief (1-2 pages) summary of the main facts of the case, its main economic aspects and the reasons why the case may be of particular interest to competition economists.
· Suggestions of economists from academia, the private sector and competition agencies that would be appropriate to present and discuss the case, having in mind that opposing views typically generate interesting debates. Please verify beforehand whether both the competition agency and at least one of the consultancy agencies involved agree on presenting the case at ACE.
· All publicly available material (decisions, reports, papers) as well the language of the decision.
Please only select cases that are not subject to potential litigation actions, or where these potential actions will not affect the possibility to present the case at the conference. Please also only submit cases where both the Authority as well as at least one of the consulting firms that were involved are willing to present the case.
The deadline for submission of case proposals is the 30th of May.
Registration to the conference will open soon!
We will keep you posted!
For questions related to the conference, please contact the ACE Secretariat: conference@competitioneconomics.org
FUTURE CONFERENCES
ACE is always looking for potential proposals to host its annual conference and aims to decide upon the venue at the annual conference at least one year in advance. Successful bids will need to demonstrate that they have suitable arrangements (including sponsorship) in place by then. Typically, ACE is hosted in universities and receives support from the economics departments, and/or local sponsors such as a competition authority.
If you would like to host the ACE conference in a future year, or if you have administrative questions, please contact the ACE Secretariat: conference@competitioneconomics.org
PAST CONFERENCES
2023 - Edinburgh
Date: 16-17th November 2023
Host: Mike Walker & Jenny Haydock (CMA)
Keynote: Nathan Miller (Georgetown).
Programme
2022 - LISBON
Date: 17-18th November 2022
Host: Ana Sofia Rodrigues (Portuguese AdC)
Keynote: Nancy Rose (MIT Economics).
Programme
2021 - BARCELONA
Date: 18-19th November 2021
Host: Massimo Motta (Barcelona School of Economics)
Keynote: Jean Tirole (TSE)
Programme
2020 - VIRTUAL EDITION
Date: 19-20th November 2020
Host: Ana Sofia Rodrigues (online)
Keynote: Joe Harrington (Wharton)
2019 - COPENHAGEN
Date: 14-15th November 2019
Host: Thomas Rønde (Copenhagen Business School)
Keynote: Michael Katz (UC Berkeley)
2018 - BOLOGNA
Date: 15-16th November 2018
Host: Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna)
Keynote: Lars-Hendrik Röller (Germany) & Tommaso Valletti (European Commission)
Programme
2017 - MADRID
Date: 16-17th November 2017
Host: Georges Siotis (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Keynote: Sir John Vickers (Oxford)
2016 - AMSTERDAM
Date: 17-18th November 2016
Host: Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam)
Keynote: Daniel Rubinfeld (UC Berkeley)
2015 - MILAN
Date: 27-28th November 2015
Host: Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi)
Keynote: Massimo Motta (European Commission)
2014 - MANNHEIM
Date: 5-6th December 2014
Host: Kai Hüschelrath & Martin Peitz (ZEW and University of Mannheim)
Keynote: Aviv Nevo (Northwestern)
2013 - BRUSSELS
Date: 13-14th December 2013
Host: Patrick Legros (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Keynote: Massimo Motta (European Commission)
2012 - PARIS
Date: 25-26th October 2012
Host: Thibauld Vergé (Autorité de la Concourrence)
Keynote: Bruno Lasserre (Autorité de la Concurrence) & Kai-Uwe Kühn (European Commission)
2011 - BERGEN
Date: 17-18th November 2011
Host: Lars Sørgard (Norwegian School of Economics)
Keynote: Kai-Uwe Kühn (European Commission) & Damien Neven (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
2010 - NORWICH
2009 - BERLIN
Date: 26-27th November 2009
Host: Lars-Hendrik Röller (ESMT)
Keynote: Christian Ewald (Bundeskartellamt)
2008 - BUDAPEST
2007 - TOULOUSE
2006 - MANNHEIM
2005 - COPENHAGEN
2004 - SIENA
2003 - MADRID
Other seminars
ACE/BRUEGEL SEMINARS
May 9th, 2017
ACE jointly organized a seminar with Bruegel in Brussels on Standardization and patents.
You may find all details on this event here: http://bruegel.org/events/standardization-and-patents-problems-and-policy-options/
Thursday, June 30, 2016
ACE/Bruegel event on Geographic market definition
The association of competition economics co-organised an event on geographic market definition with Breugel. The event took place in Bruegel's premises on June 30 2017 in Brussel.
Amelia Fletcher and Bruce Lyons presented a piece of research they have done for DG Competition (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/reports/study_gmd.pdf).
It was followed by a debate with Giulio Federico, Raphaël de Coninck, Hans Friederiszick and someone from the industry. The moderator was Scott Marcus, from Bruegel.
Friday June 20, 2014, 2.30 pm CET
The Economic Consequences of the Intel Judgement
Presenter: Hans Zenger (Charles River Associates)
Discussants:
Jorge Padilla (Compass Lexecon)
Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)
4th Workshop on the Economics of ICTs
University of Evora April 11-12. 2013
The first Round Table had the general theme "Market Delineation with Bundles", organized by ACE. Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics), Ciara Kalmus (Ofcom), Jan Krancke (Deutsche Telekom), and Matthijs Visser (RBB) participated in this panel, which will be chaired by Kate Collyer (UK Competition Commission).
The second Round Table had the general theme "Access to content in the context of bundled offers". This round table was moderated by Fátima Barros (Chairman of ANACOM's Management Board) and Geoff Edwards (Charles River Associates), Daniel Escoda (Telefonica), Marc Lebourges (Orange) and Elena Zoido (Compass Lexecon) participated in the panel.