Making digital markets work for people – Fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare in dialogue

Event description

Have you also been totally immersed in discussions about competition law and economics of digital markets and artificial intelligence, more narrowly, issues relating to fairness and consumer welfare in those contexts?

The intersection of fairness and competition law has noted a revival with added focus on digital markets and tech giants in the EU through the enactment of e.g. Digital Markets Act and a range of ongoing investigations against e.g. Apple and Google.

The conference thus seeks to explore the implication of fairness as a competition law and regulatory concept applied to e.g. digital and AI markets, focusing on the normative implications for enforcement of competition law and regulatory tools such as the Digital Markets Act and the EU AI Act in digital and algorithmic markets.

Keynote speakers include a range of leading names in the field, such as Prof. Alexander Cappelen (FAIR, University of Bergen), Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University), Björn Lundqvist (Stockholm University), Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento) as well as Johan Sahl, Head of Unit at Swedish Competition Authority.

Other selected presentations from leading and emerging Nordic and European scholars relate to the European regulation and intervention in the digital economy, with a particular interest in the normative justification and practical implications of specific measures (e.g., DSA, DMA, AI Act) and the interconnection between fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare regarding competition law and economics of digital and AI markets.

The conference is organized by Behrang Kianzad and Johan Axhamn at LUSEM and Fabrizio Espostio of Nova Law School, Lisbon, in collaboration with ACLU and with a grant by Centre for European Studies and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Programme

Click here to see the invitation and conference program (PDF, new window).

08.30 Registration & Morning Coffee

09.00-09.10 Welcome Adress 

09.10 Keynote 1  Prof. Alexander Wright Cappelen (FAIR Centre for Ethics and Economics, Bergen University) - Fairness and Paternalism

09.40–11.00 Session 1 - Working Towards What?

• Lyuxing Tao (PGR researcher, Durham University)
  Consumer Choice Trumps Consumer Welfare: The Best Springboard for ‘Fairness’ in DMA to Reach Consumers
• Dr. Nada Ina Pauer (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
  Philosophical Impetus to Determine Fair Market Conduct – Ascertaining Fairness Theorems for Digital Markets
• Dr. Mario Iacovides (Uppsala University)
  The New Goals of EU Competition Law: Sustainability, Labour Rights, and Privacy
• Dr. Fabrizio Esposito (Nova Law School)
  Consumer sovereignty, efficiency and fairness: An epistemic translation approach

11.00 Swedish Fika

11.30–13.00  Session 2 - AI and Data for the People

• Dr. Luca Arnaudo  (Italian Antitrust Authority, AGCM)
  Algorithmic Pricing and Price Controls: Ways Ahead
• Sarah Al Jashi (Tillburg University)
  Lessons about Art. 102 TFEU and Excessive Data Extractions in the Era of Big Data
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger et alia (University of Hamburg)
  Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law in the EU – An Economic Perspective
• Ruben Verdoodt (KU Leuven)
  Scrutinising AI partnerships: win-win or winner-takes-all?

13.00–14.00 Lunch

14.00 Keynote 2 Prof. Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento)

14.30–16.00 Session 3  Competition, Regulation & Innovation

• Dr. Behrang Kianzad and Dr. Johan Axhamn (Departement of Business Law, Lund University)
  Abuse of data as an unfair practice between competition and regulation of digital markets
• Elisabeth Wondracek (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
  Fundamental rights in digital markets – a theory of harm or an isolated Facebook-phenomenon?
• Dr. Maria Jose Schmidt (Central European University)
  The Role of EU Platform Regulation and Competition Law in Enhancing Fairness on Digital Music Markets
• Dr. Hedvig K Schmidt (University of Southhampton)
  The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law - Fairness, Market Power and Innovation

16.00 Swedish Fika 

16.20 Keynote 3 Prof. Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University)

Topic: When Fairness, Innovation and Access met: A trilateral dilemma at the convergence of pharma & digital innovation

16.40 Keynote 4 Prof. Björn Lundqvist (Stockholm University)

17.00 Closing Roundtable Discussion

• Johan Sahl (Swedish Competition Authority), Jörgen Hettne (Head of Department of Business Law, LUSEM), Alexander
• Cappelen (FAIR, University of Bergen), Kalpana Tyagi (University of Maastricht), Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento), Björn
• Lundqvist (Stockholm University), Amir Mohseni (Partner, Bokwall and Rislund) , Behrang Kianzad  (Departement of Business Law, LUSEM -moderator)

18.00 End of Conference 
 

Registration

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The total number of on site participants is limited to 55 persons. Online participation is unlimited.

The conference is organized by Behrang Kianzad and Johan Axhamn at LUSEM and Fabrizio Espostio of Nova Law School, Lisbon.

The conference is made possible by generous grants by Center for European Studies and AI Lund at Lund University as well as Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Johan & Jakob Söderbergs Stiftelse.

ACLU – Affärsrättsligt Centrum vid Lunds universitet

AI Lund – Lund University