Analytical Methods for Competition Policy

Description:

This course reviews the difficulties that practitioners and research economists encounter when trying to apply economic models to data seeking as a means of establishing market conduct and firm behaviour. Identification of market conduct is the key to establishing where dominant positions are abused, collusion, damages, predatory behaviour, or anticompetitive effects of mergers (amongst other issues). This course is primarily targeted towards consultants in the area of competition policy, but is also open to interested PGR students. It will cover the tools and concepts - ranging from simple to moderately complicated - that are used to empirically evaluate whether a market needs to be regulated, firms can be prosecuted, or damages can be claimed. In all those circumstances, equilibrium economic models are used in counterfactual analysis to determine by how much the current observed behaviour deviates from the efficient competitive outcome. Material will be presented in conjunction with summaries of empirical studies to illustrate the pros and cons of using different methods. This course can be complemented by attending a further UEA session, on ‘Vertical Restraints’, scheduled to run in the afternoons of 12th-14th June.

Cost:

PGR students from Universities of East Anglia; Essex; Kent; Surrey; Sussex; Reading; Royal Holloway; Goldsmiths; Roehampton; & City University; PGR students from all other institutions = £30; Early-career researchers/academics = £60

Website and registration:

https://www.uea.ac.uk/social-sciences/graduate-school/pgr-training-in-the-faculty-of-social-science/upcoming-training-events

Region:

East of England

Keywords:

Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research, Economics , Competition policy

Related publications and presentations:

Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research

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