University of Milan, Bicocca, Dept. of Economics, September 15-16, 2009

III Intertic Conference on Competition Policy and Property Rights

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 09:30 - 17:00,
Aula del Consiglio (U7, 4th floor)

with David Ulph (Saint Andrews University, Scotland), Bernhard Ganglmairz (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Dirk Czarnitzki (K.U. Leuven, Belgium), Jos Jansen (Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany), Christian Kiedaisch (Toulouse School of Economics, France), John Vickers (Oxford University, U.K.), Michele Polo (Bocconi University), Michela Cella (UMB), Piergiovanna Natale (UMB), Kresimir Zigic (CERGE-EI, Prague), Jiri Strelicky (Generali PPF Holding, Prague), Anna Rita Bennato (University of Rome, Tor Vergata), Graziella Marzi (UMB), Valeria Gattai (UMB), Stefano Colombo (Catholic University of Milan), Rosen Marinov (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneve, Switzerland) and many others

12:00, the III Stackelberg Lecture:
by Prof Sir John VICKERS (Oxford University)
on “Competition Policy and Property Rights”
with a discussion by
Michele Polo (Bocconi University)
Aula del Consiglio (U7)

PROGRAM

Sir John Vickers, Professor of Economics at Oxford University and President of the Royal Economic Society, former Chairman of the British Office of Fair Trading, one of the leading experts on industrial structures and antitrust policy, will give a lecture on a crucial topic in modern policymaking: the border between the protection of intellectual property rights and the protection of competition through antitrust policy. Prof. Michele Polo (Bocconi University) will provide a wide ranging discussion on the lecture, introducing the debate between the international economists participating to the conference, and the audience.

One of the most controversial questions in current competition policy is when, if ever, should competition law require a firm with market power to share its property, notably intellectual property, with its rivals? And if supply is required, on what terms? These questions are discussed by one of the leading experts with reference to recent law cases including the EC Microsoft judgment of 2007 and the US LinkLine case of 2009. John Vicker's analysis focuses on whether competition law and regulation are complements or substitutes, and on incentives for investment and (sequential) innovation.

 

The Stackelberg Lecture Series:

I Stackelberg Lecture: Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, U.S.A.), 2007

II Stackelberg Lecture: John Sutton (London School of Economics, U.K.), 2008

III Stackelberg Lecture: Sir John Vickers (Oxford University, U.K.), 2009

IV Stackelberg Lecture: Richard Schmalensee (M.I.T., U.S.A.), 2010