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CET 20 Years: Competition Economics in a Changing World

To mark its 20th Anniversary, the Chief Economist Team is organising a conference that will bring together leading experts to discuss and reflect about competition economics in a changing world.

The event will be a half-day conference with opening and closing remarks by Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera and Director-General Olivier Guersent, a keynote lecture by Chief Competition Economist Prof. Emanuele Tarantino, as well as roundtables where contributors from academia, private sector and public sector will discuss about the contribution of economics to public policies, with an emphasis in competition and industrial policies.

Join us for an opportunity to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Chief Economist Team by contributing to the debate on the lessons and successes of the past 20 years and the challenges we collectively face in a rapidly changing world.

The event will be exclusively in-person, with no streaming available.

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  1. 13:00

    Registration and networking coffee

  2. 13:50

    Welcome by Naemi Riess, Economist at the Chief Economist Team

    Opening remarks by Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition

  3. 14:20

    Keynote Lecture: Competition Policy as a Catalyst for Innovation

    • Emanuele Tarantino, Chief Competition Economist

    Chair: Daniele Calisti, Head of Unit for Merger Policy

  4. 15:00

    Roundtable: How to keep the effects-based approach effective?

    • Since its inception in 2005, the Chief Economist Team helped shaping the debate on competition policy by contributing to high-profile competition cases in Europe. The panel will explore where economics made a difference over the past 20 years and which role economics can play in competition assessments going forward. Key topics will include the presentation of economic evidence, the importance of sound theories of harm, and the role of consultancies and academics in the effects-based approach to competition cases.
    • Fernando Castillo de la Torre, Principal Legal Adviser at the Legal Service
    • Kirsten Edwards Warren, Economic Consultant
    • Fiona Scott-Morton, Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management
    • Hans Zenger, Head of Unit at Chief Economist Team

    Chair: Annemiek Wilpshaar, Head of Unit for Digital Mergers

    Scene setter: Benedikt Herz, Economist at the Chief Economist Team

  5. 16:15

    Celebratory drinks

  6. 17:00

    Roundtable: Public policies 2.0: How can economics shape them today?

    Policy makers operate in a fast-changing global economic context, resulting from recent supply shocks and geopolitical tensions as well as from long term underlying trends. The panel will explore how essential economic principles such as efficiency, productivity and welfare remain the basis for public policies that effectively address the challenges of innovation, decarbonisation, security and growth. A key aspect will be the interplay and complementarity between competition, industrial and trade policies, the need for coordination, and the role that economics must play in public policymaking today.

    • Román Arjona, Chief Economist at DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
    • Jason Furman, Professor of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
    • Elisabetta Iossa, Commissioner at Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
    • Lluís Saurí, Deputy Chief Competition Economist

    Chair: Nuria Subirats, Policy Officer for Commission Priorities

    Scene setter: Zlata Jakubovic, Case Manager at the Chief Economist Team

  7. 18:15

    Closing remarks by Olivier Guersent, Director-General for Competition