ACE CONFERENCE
ACE 2025 to be announced soon
The ACE 2024 conference took place in Milan at Bocconi University
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This year's keynote was given by Sir John Vickers on "Should Competition Monopolise Merger Policy?"
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Here are the links to:
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The conference programme
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John Vickers' keynote speech
The plenary sessions focused on important antitrust topics such as digital regulation, antitrust and AI, and the role of economics in the antitrust process.
In line with ACE's tradition, there were 12 parallel sessions on recent competition cases, with a mix of mergers, antitrust, state aid, and regulation (from the European Commission, different national competition authorities and national regulators). ​​​​​​​​
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​​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.
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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
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PAST CONFERENCES
2024 - Milan
Date: 15-16th November 2024
Host: Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi)
Keynote: Sir John Vickers (Oxford).
Programme
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.
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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)
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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.