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October 2019
Seminar on the Extraterritorial Effects of EU Economic Law – EU Law Beyond the Union
Seminar on the Extraterritorial Effects of EU Economic Law – EU Law Beyond the Union, with Ass. Prof. Nuno Cunha Rodriguez, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1st of October, from 09:00 to 10:00, Auditorium 4, Law Building 1, University of Bergen.
Find out more »Seminar on EU state aid regulation
Patric Tomasso/Unsplash. The Research Group for EU/EEA, Competition and Market Law and Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Linda Nyberg, from the department of political science at Lund University, Sweden, on EU state aid regulation. The seminar will take place at the 16th of October, from 10:00 to 11:30, in Auditorium 4, Law Building 1, at the University of Bergen. Ever wondered why policymakers seem so convinced that…
Find out more »Seminar om hvorfor og hvordan man kan stimulere til lokal deltagelse i anskaffelsesprosesser
John Unwing/Unsplash. 17. Oktober inviterer BECCLE til et seminar om hvorfor og hvordan man kan stimulere til lokal deltakelse i offentlige anskaffelsesprosesser. Seminaret finner sted fra 12:15-14:00 i Auditoriet i Jusbygg II på det juridiske fakultet ved Universitetet i Bergen. Forsker Malin Arve (NHH) vil snakke om hvorfor dette er økonomisk lønnsomt og Ragnhild Kristina Ølstad (Inventura) vil presentere det juridiske handlingsrommet og hvordan man kan stimulere til økt konkurranse og deltakelse. Til sist vil representanter fra Sykehusinnkjøp presentere…
Find out more »January 2020
Investing in our future, divesting from our past. From climate risk to climate opportunity
Photo: Jason Blackeye on Unsplash Registration for the conference is done through this link, by January 9th (registration, breakfast and lunch is free of charge). The 16th of January 2020, from 08:30 to 16:00, the law faculty at the University of Bergen and the Research group for Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law and Development Law in cooperation with Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), the Research group for international law and the Research group for EU/EEA Commercial Law invite…
Find out more »Seminar on input price discrimination
BECCLE together with the Department of Economics are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Germain Gaudin (Copenhagen Business School) on Friday January 17. Gaudin will present his paper entitled “Input price discrimination, demand forms, and welfare’’ (joint work with Romain Lestage). The paper studies industries in which retailers face asymmetric input prices from their upstream suppliers, such as the Norwegian grocery market. Please note that the venue is the Department of Economics, University of Bergen (Fosswinckelsgate 14), Seminar…
Find out more »April 2020
Canceled: Bergen Competition Policy Conference 2020
The BECCLE conference has been canceled due to the recent developments of COVID-19 outbreak in Norway. We are considering the possibility of setting a new date for the conference this fall. * Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the sixth annual conference on competition policy on the 23st and 24nd of April in Bergen, Norway. The conference combines sessions with invited speakers and presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of…
Find out more »September 2020
The role of privacy in competition law
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE), the Research group for EU/EEA Commercial law and the Research group for Information and Innovation law, are pleased to announce a guest lecture by Ms. Arletta Gorecka, PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. In the lecture, Ms. Gorecka will elaborate on the role of privacy in competition law by presenting two recent cases. The lecture will take place 23. September via Zoom (the link is published below). “The…
Find out more »April 2022
Sustainability and competition law – a conflict?
Professor Maarten Pieter Schinkel A more sustainable society is needed to slow down and ultimately reverse the rapid climate change. For firms to become more sustainable, they are often encouraged to join forces for example by entering sustainability agreements. This triggers the questions of whether the ban on anticompetitive agreements is a problem when faced with these types of climate friendly collaborations, and if so, whether competition law should be revised in order to allow for sustainability considerations to be…
Find out more »May 2022
Seminar om prisregulering på dagligvarer
Bør innkjøpspriser på dagligvarer reguleres? Det har i flere år pågått en debatt angående forskjeller i innkjøpspriser på dagligvarer og hvordan det evt. påvirker konkurransen i dagligvaremarkedet. Denne debatten er nå igjen aktuell, etter at SV nylig har sendt et representantforslag til Stortinget om å regulere innkjøpspriser på dagligvare. Vi har bedt tre akademikere og tre personer fra bransjen kommentere forslaget fra SV: Professor Espen Moen, BI, Professor Øystein Foros, NHH, Førsteamanuensis Ronny Gjendemsjø, Universitetet i Bergen, Karl Alveng…
Find out more »Seminar on EU merger control
Tomaso Duso will present his empirical study of EU merger control, done jointly with Paula Affeldt, Klaus Gugler and Joanna Piechucka. They analyze more than 1000 mergers scrutinized by the European Commission between 1980 and 2019. One finding from their study is that they are concerned about the Commission's merger enforcement being too lax. Time: May 24 2022, 12.15-13.30 Venue: Room E209/210, Norwegian School of Economics This is a joint seminar with Center for Business Economics (CBE) at NHH …
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