Aspects of Competition Law Enforcement

by Prof.dr. Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute for Technology, Atlanta - USA)

Course description
This specialized and intensive two-day course concentrates on aspects of competition law enforcement in selected countries and regions - primarily US and EU, but also others - taking an empirical perspective. The course covers the literature on law and economic theories of regulation and antitrust control, history of US competition law enforcement, partially in comparison to the EU, and selfcontained assessments of the (econometric) techniques applied in the presentation of empirical results. 

 

The contents will be targeted at the general audience - economists, competition lawyers and policymakers - interested in competition policy and its enforcement. Although relatively non-technical, included in the discussions will be the broad theoretical framework to gain an understanding of the various types of conduct and their anti-competitive consequences and presentation of facts and figures and some legal issues. Apart from informative, the course will therefore be a rich source of research ideas for PhD students in economics and law & economics scholars as well.

 

Professor Ghosal

Before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor in 2001, Vivek Ghosal worked as an economist at the Antitrust Division (U.S. Department of Justice), in particular on issues related to mergers, horizontal and vertical market power, tying agreements, joint ventures and cross-subsidization.   Prof. Ghosal's current areas of research and teaching at Georgia Tech include: the political economy of antitrust and regulation; innovation strategy in the automobile industry; causes and consequences of merger waves in the U.S. industries; innovation and M&As in the pulp and paper industry; and the impact of uncertainty and sunk costs on industry dynamics. He is widely published in these areas.