Competition Commission of India's National Conference on Economics of Competition Law

About the CCI

Competition Commission of India (CCI) is a statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing The Competition Act, 2002 and promoting competition throughout India, and preventing activities that have an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India. It was established on October 14, 2003.

About the Conference

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is organizing its 7th National Conference on Economics of Competition Law on March 4, 2022, in New Delhi.

Objectives

The conference aims to:

Stimulate research and debate on contemporary issues in the field of economics of competition law.
Develop a better understanding of competition issues relevant to the Indian context.
Draw inferences for implementation of competition law in India.

Eligibility

Economists including scholars, practitioners, and competition agency officials with a keen interest in the economics of competition law and policy.

Details of the Event

Conference fee: There is no conference fee.
Post-conference publication
Depending on the quality of submissions, some papers may be considered for publication by the CCI.
Financial support: Paper presenters at the Conference shall be provided financial support.
Venue: New Delhi, India

Themes

The Conference is expected to cover a wide range of related themes. However, papers in the following themes are encouraged:

Market definition, measuring market power and abuse of dominance: Issues like empirical methods of defining markets, measuring market power, and assessment of exclusionary unilateral conduct etc. may be covered among others.
Vertical restraints and competition: Vertical restraints can have many pro-competitive as well as anticompetitive
effects. Papers may explore areas such as resale price maintenance, assignment of exclusive territories or exclusive dealing, tying and bundling and circumstances under which these restrictions have anticompetitive effects.
Horizontal agreements and cartelization: Prohibition of collusive conduct of firms is a key component of competition law. Papers may explore issues such as the economics of collusion, information exchange, price signalling, facilitating factors for cartels, detecting and discouraging cartels etc.
Economics of platform markets and challenges for antitrust enforcement: New digital products and business models as well as the special characteristics of digital markets have created new challenges for enforcement and
competition policy. Papers may explore new tools and techniques that the discipline of economics offers for assessing competition issues in platform markets.
Intellectual Property Rights and competition law: Competition law will be concerned not with the legitimate exercise of an IP right, but with efforts of the holders of this right to expand the scope, either to new products or beyond a certain time or by conditioning access to the right on restrictions. Papers may explore areas of recent concerns in the IP-competition law interface.
Price and non-price effects of mergers: Economic analysis is playing an increasingly important role in merger review. Papers may focus on recent developments in estimating the effects of mergers (merger simulation, diversion ratios, pricing pressure indices, etc.), innovation effects and welfare effects of mergers including vertical or conglomerate mergers, issues in the use of appropriate remedies, that is, adoption of structural and/or behavioural remedies.
Any other issues related to competition policy and law.