Events
A growing role for economics in State Aid Control
Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, NorwayOn Tuesday 23 September, Gjermund Mathisen, senior officer of ESA Legal and Executive Affairs, and newly appointed directior of ESA Competition and State Aid unit, will give an introduction to the new reform on State Aid and the growing role for economics in State Aid Control.
Picking a Partner among Competitors when Size Matters: The Norwegian Grocery Market
Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, NorwayThe partnership between ICA and NorgesGruppen on procurement and distribution is controversial. Common sense among market players seems to be that size matters for profitability as well as for retail pricing. On Tuesday 14 October Kind and Foros will present their work in whcich they have set up a model which captures the fact that size might matter for retail pricing, and analyzes the effects that a partnership on distribution and procurement between rivals have on retail pricing. Furthermore, they have investigated whether there are incentives to form industry-wide partnerships.
The interaction between EU/EEA Public Procurement and Competition Law
Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, NorwayWe are pleased to invite you to a seminar on the interaction between the rules governing the award of public contracts - public procurement - and competition law, Thursday 30 October, featuring Albert Sánchez Graells, Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, and Andhers Thue, Partner, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig.
Fusjoner godkjent på vilkår
Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, NorwayEn rekke fusjoner og oppkjøp godkjennes på vilkår. Et rådende syn er at strukturelle vilkår, der for eksempel deler av virkshomheten må avhendes, er bedre enn å pålegge de fusjonerende adferdsvilkår. I løpet av de siste årene er det en rekke eksempler på fusjoner godkjent med strukturelle vilkår i Norge. Erling Hjelmeng og Lars Sørgard vil i dette seminaret drøfte mulige problemer og utfordringer forbundet med avhjelpende tiltak, med særlig fokus på strukturelle tiltak
Partial Vertical Ownership
Gonçalves analyses the market impact of a partial vertical integration whereby a retail firm acquires a non-controlling stake in the capital of an upstream firm, which supplies an essential input. In addition, he assume that this upstream firm can price discriminate between two groups of retail firms: the retail firm which (now) owns a stake in its capital and all of its retail rivals. Although apparently counter intuitive, we find that it is profit-maximizing for the upstream firm to discriminate against its retail shareholder. Compared to a vertical separation scenario, this partial vertical integration induces input foreclosure, higher retail prices and lower social welfare. From a competition policy viewpoint, this suggests that such partial vertical integrations should be analyzed with particular concern.
BECCLE seminar: Barriers to trade in services: OECD’s STRI project
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås will present the OECD's STRI project, and explain how researchers and others can use this database
BECCLE Seminar: Social Networks and the Demand for News
We are pleased to invite you to a BECCLE Seminar with Lisa George on Social Networks and the Demand for News Speaker: Lisa George Hunter Collge Location: Room E209 Read More ...
BECCLE-seminar: TeliaSonera/Tele2
Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, NorwayTele2-sjef Arild Hustad (t.v.) og Netcom-sjef August Baumann inngikk fusjonsavtalen i juli 2014. 5. februar 2015 godkjente Konkurransetilsynet fusjonen på vilkår. FOTO: TERJE BENDIKSBY, NTB SCANPIX I forbindelse med Konkurransetilsynets Read More ...
1st annual BECCLE Competition Conference
At Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics we are proud to announce the first annual BECCLE competition policy conference, April 23 and 24 2015. The conference will combine sessions with invited speakers and presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and economics. As key note speakers for the conference we are proud to present David Bailey (King’s College London), Joe Harrington (University of Pennsylvania) and Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse).
BECCLE Seminar om matmarkedet
Matmarkedene i Norge er under konstant oppmerksomhet. Nylig har Konkurransetilsynet godkjent fusjonen mellom Coop og Ica på vilkår. Regjeringen jobber med en lov om god handelsskikk, og debatten om hvor marginene forsvinner i distribusjonskjeden pågår. I dette seminaret ønsker vi å rette søkelys på alle disse problemsstillingene, og vi har invitert en rekke økonomer og jurister til å presentere sine syn som grunnlag for diskusjon og debatt.