Finn/Nettbil saken: Lærdommer fra Høyesteretts dom
2023-04-11 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
I november 2020 forbød Konkurransetilsynet Schibsteds oppkjøp av Nettbil, basert på at det ville medføre en betydelig begrensning i effektiv konkurranse i markedet. Konkurranseklagenemnda ga i mai 2021 Konkurransetilsynet medhold. Partene anket til Gulating lagmannsrett, og de fikk i mars 2022 medhold. Staten anket saken inn for Høyesterett, og Høyesterett forkastet i februar 2023 anken. Det var hovedsakelig basert på at Finn og Nettbils produkter ikke konkurrerte med hverandre.
I dette seminaret ønsker vi å diskutere Finn/Nettbil saken, og hvilke implikasjoner Høyesteretts dom får for fremtidige saker om foretakssammenslutninger. For å belyse det både fra et juridisk og økonomisk ståsted, har vi følgende to innledere:

Professor Erling Hjelmeng, Institutt for Privatrett, Universitetet i Oslo
Professor Frode Steen, Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole

Det vil bli satt av god tid til spørsmål og innlegg fra salen.
Seminaret vil bli holdt:

Auditorium 4, Juridisk Fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen
Tirsdag 11. april kl 14.15-15.45

Seminaret vil også bli strømmet. Opptaket kan sees her. Lysbildene fra innleggene er vedlagt nedenfor.
Erling Hjelmeng , Frode Steen

Energy infrastructure in times of energy and climate emergency
2023-05-11 10:00 - 11:45 (Europe/Oslo) | Auditoriet, Jus II, University of Bergen, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, Norway
The Research group for Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law and Development Law and the Bergen Center for Competition Law & Economics (BECCLE), had the pleasure of hosting a hybrid webinar on the 11th of May at 10.00 am at the Faculty of Law University of Bergen on Energy infrastructure in times of energy and climate emergency. Three recognized experts presented their perspectives on the topic and the session was accompanied by an interactive Q&A.
Our speakers (and their topic titles) for this session were (click on the titles to see the presentations):

Lars Sørgard, Professor in Economics (NHH) and leader of the Energy Commission (Norway) – The state’s role in investment in more renewable energy: The Norwegian experience
Ronnie Belmans, Emeritus Professor in Electrical Energy Systems (KU Leuven) and EnergyVille – Building wind turbines offshore may be the easy part
Vaido Poldoja, Senior Legal Office (EFTA Surveillance Authority) and State aid expert – State aid news in times of energy and climate transformation

This session was moderated by Prof. Leigh Hancher (UiB, Tilburg & FSR).
Agenda:

10.00 Doors open
10.05 Seminar starts
11.20 Presentations finish
11.45 Q&A session ends

Recording of the seminar can be seen HERE
The seminar was held in the Auditorium of JUS II – https://goo.gl/maps/spvyZQpHsuDKRApV6

About our speakers and moderator:

Lars Sørgard is professor at Norwegian School of Economics and director of BECCLE. His research field is competition policy, and he served as the Director General of The Norwegian Competition Authority 2016-22. He has also done research and policy work on the energy market, now recently he was the leader of the Energy Commission that delivered its report in February this year (NOU 2022:3).

Ronnie Belmans received Ronnie Belmans is emeritus full professor at KU Leuven. His research interests include smart grids, security of energy supply, techno-economic aspects of the liberalisation of the electricity market and energy system modelling. He was co-founder and chairman of EnergyVille (until 2021), a research collaboration in Genk specializing in sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems. From 2017-2022, he was chairman of the board of directors of the VREG, the Flemisch regulator for electricity & gas markets. Ronnie is also honorary chairman of the board of directors of the Belgian transmission system operator.

Vaido Poldoja is a Senior Legal Officer at the Competition and State aid directorate of the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA). Among other tasks, Vaido handles adopting ESA’s new Guidelines on State aid for Climate, Environmental protection and Energy. Prior to joining ESA, Vaido worked in various state aid units at the European Commission (DG Competition) and spent several years in private practice at a pan-Baltic law firm in Estonia.

Leigh Hancher is Professor of European Law at the University of Tilburg. She is a part-time Professor at the Florence School of Regulation within the European University Institute and the Director of the FSR Energy Union Law Area. Her research interests include energy market regulation, EU state aids and energy market governance. She has also been a Professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, a Visiting Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, Head of Legal at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels and a member of the Dutch Academic Advisory Council (WRR).

Mergers and Demand-Enhancing Innovation
2023-05-16 12:15 - 13:30 | Room E209/E210, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, Bergen, Norway
CANCELLED! (Due to cancelled flight)
Yassine Lefouili from the Toulouse School of Economics will give a seminar on Mergers and Demand-Enhancing Innovation. This is a joint seminar of the Centre for Business Economics (NHH) and BECCLE.

Abstract
We study the impact of horizontal mergers on merging firms’ incentives to invest in demand-enhancing innovation. In our baseline model, we identify four effects of a symmetric merger on these incentives: the innovation diversion effect, the margin expansion effect, the demand expansion effect, and the per unit return to innovation effect. We offer sufficient conditions for a merger to reduce or raise merging firms’ incentives to innovate in the absence of spillovers and efficiency gains in R&D, and find that a comparison between the innovation diversion and price diversion ratios is informative about the impact of a merger on innovation.

The seminar will take place on the 16th of May from 12.15 to 13.30 pm at the Department of Economics at NHH, room E209/210.

BECCLE Competition Policy Conference 2023
2023-06-01 08:00 - 2023-06-02 16:00
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the seventh annual conference on competition policy on the 1st and 2nd of June 2023 in Bergen, Norway.
The conference will combine sessions with invited speakers and contributed sessions with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.
Time and date: 1st of June at 09:00 until 2nd of June at 16:00
Location: Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (Address: Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1)
Contact: For any questions, please contact the organising committee by using the following email address: local2023BECCLE@uib.no
Information about the conference
The BECCLE conference is open also for persons not presenting a paper, and there is no conference fee. Lunch will be served for all attendees. All presenters pay their own travel and accommodation expenses.
The program can be found HERE.
You find information about the transport to and from the airport HERE.
Note that there is an ICN (International Competition Network) Chief Economist Meeting in Bergen back-to-back with the BECCLE conference. It gathers chief economists and senior economists from competition agencies worldwide and leading academics to discuss competition policy issues. On the afternoon of Wednesday May 31 this meeting will be open to the public, and you are welcome to attend it. There will be two sessions open for the public, one session on buyer-side market power (academic lead: Nancy Rose) and one session on coordinated effects in mergers (academic lead: Nathan Miller). See the preliminary program for the open sessions HERE. We will keep you updated on our BECCLE Conference webpage on details. Although this is an opportunity for you to attend it, note that the BECCLE Conference starts Thursday morning.
Registration
Registration for the BECCLE Conference is now closed.
Registration for the ICN Meeting open for BECCLE participants is now closed.
The deadline for registration for the BECCLE Conference will be May 20, and for the ICN Chief Economist Meeting will be May 10.
Keynote speakers

Professor Natalia Fabra, Department of Economics at Universidad Carlos III Madrid: Reform in the European electricity market
Professor Heike Schweitzer, Faculty of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin: Ex ante vs ex post enforcement of competition law

Invited sessions

Competition Law & Economics and Sustainability (organized by Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui at Faculty of Law at University of Bergen)

Leigh Hancher (moderator), University of Tilburg
Cristina Volpin, OECD
Nicole Rosenboom, Oxera
Anna Gerbrandy, Utrecht University

Legal and Liability Standards in Antitrust Enforcement: Developments and Open Questions (organized by Yannis Katsoulacos at Athens University of Economics and Business)

Yannis Katsoulacos (moderator and speaker)
Anne Witt, EDHEC Augmented Law Institute
Frederic Jenny, ESSEC Paris Business School

Submissions of papers
The contributed sessions will include papers on all topics in the fields of competition law and competition economics, both theoretical and empirical, as well as case studies. Papers should be submitted as a pdf file to the e-mail address conference2023BECCLE@uib.no. The deadline for submission is expired (March 1, 2023). Authors of accepted papers was notified before April 1, 2023. All papers will be allocated a discussant, and presenters may be asked to discuss a paper.
You can download the BECCLE 2023 Call for Papers as a pdf file HERE.
Scientific committee

Lars Sørgard (NHH and BECCLE)
Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen (University of Bergen and BECCLE)
Ronny Gjendemsjø (University of Bergen and BECCLE)
Bjørn Olav Johansen (University of Bergen and BECCLE)
Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT Berlin and U Bergen/BECCLE)
Frode Steen (NHH and BECCLE)
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (U Bergen and BECCLE)
Eeva Mauring (U Bergen and BECCLE)
Øivind Anti Nilsen (NHH and BECCLE)
Kurt Brekke (NHH and BECCLE)
Morten Sæthre (NHH and BECCLE)
Anantha Divakaruni (U Bergen and BECCLE)
Anna Ignatenko (NHH and BECCLE)
Thomas Vinje (Clifford Chance and U Bergen)
Tommaso Valletti (imperial College London and NHH/BECCLE)
Mateusz Mysliwski (NHH and BECCLE)
Teis Lunde Lømo (HVL and BECCLE)

Local organising committee

Emil Mathias Strøm Halseth (NHH)
Alina Ozhegova (NHH)
Marte Reisæter (U Bergen)
Øyvind Erstad Villanger (U Bergen)

Structural presumptions in merger control?
2023-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
There is a debate in both the US and Europe about the principles of merger control. One view is that we should move towards having more presumptions in merger reviews, and then move partly away from a pure effects-based approach. Tommasso Valletti is proposing such a shift in the procedures for merger control. He is professor in economics at Imperial College in London, adjunct professor at Norwegian School of Economics and BECCLE, and a former chief economist at DG COMP.
In this seminar he will present his view, where he argues that there should be more structural presumptions in merger control. Your can read about his view HERE. Three Norwegian experts on competition policy will comment on his talk:

Deputy Director Marita Skjæveland, Norwegian Competition Authority
Partner Beret Sundet, BAHR law firm
Partner Jostein Skaar, Oslo Economics

The seminar will be held:

Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law at University of Bergen
Wednesday June 14 at 10:00-11:45

You are welcome to attend the seminar physically. Note that it will also be streamed.
The seminar can be seen in replay here.
The slides can be seen here: Marita Skjæveland, Jostein Skaar, Tommaso Valletti

Norwegians oppkjøp av Widerøe
2023-09-21 14:30 - 16:00
Norwegian har inngått avtale om å kjøpe Widerøe for litt over en milliard kroner. Oppkjøpet er meldt til Konkurransetilsynet og krever deres godkjennelse. Det er en konkret vurdering som vil avgjøre om Norwegian får ja til oppkjøpet. På dette seminaret vil vi foreta en prinsipiell diskusjon av de rettslige og økonomiske rammene for et eventuelt inngrep. Vi vil blant annet drøfte tidligere praksis i lignende saker, hvilken inngrepsterskel som skal legges til grunn i lys av rettspraksis (nå nylig CK Telecom dommen), og eventuelt hvilke avhjelpende tiltak som kan være aktuelle.
For å belyse saken både fra et rettslig og et økonomisk perspektiv, vil disse innlede på seminaret:

Professor Erling J. Hjelmeng, Universitetet i Oslo (og Norges Handelshøyskole)
Professor Lars Sørgard, Norges Handelshøyskole

Det vil bli åpning for spørsmål og kommentarer fra salen.
OPPTAK AV SEMINARET
Seminaret vil foregå:

Tid: Torsdag 21. september kl 14.30-16.00
Sted: Auditorium 4, Juridisk Fakultet, Universitet i Bergen

Seminaret vil være fysisk, men vil også bli strømmet. Link for digital deltagelse
Sørgards presentasjon
Hjelmengs presentasjon

The Digital Markets Act - what now?
2023-09-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
Friday September 29th there will be a BECCLE seminar with Thomas Kramler, head of the unit Digital Platforms III in the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission. Thomas will talk about the genesis of the DMA and its main features, with emphasis on the interplay with competition law. His unit is responsible for the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and Articles 101 and 102 TFEU in relation to digital platforms. At the seminar Thomas will take us through the decisions directed at the platform services having been designated gatekeepers, and the upcoming compliance regime.

Thomas Kramler
Head of the unit Digital Platforms III in the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission. The unit is responsible for the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and Articles 101 and 102 TFEU in relation to digital platforms. Before that, he was Head of the Digital Single Market Task Force responsible for the ecommerce sector inquiry. He holds a law degree and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has graduated with a Master’s degree in European Community Law from the College of Europe (Bruges).
Previously Mr Kramler was deputy head of the unit responsible for antitrust cases in the information industries, internet and consumer electronics sectors. Before joining the European Commission Mr Kramler worked as agent representing the Austrian government before the European Courts in Luxembourg.
Link for digital participation
Mr. Kramlers presentation

Mot ein sterkare offentlegrettsleg administrativ handheving av konkurransereglane
2023-10-26 09:30 - 12:30 | Auditorium 3, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Norway
Innanfor konkurranseretten har det dei siste åra skjedd ei tildeling og forskyving av makt til administrative konkurransestyresmakter både overnasjonalt og nasjonalt i Europa. Gjennom ECN+ direktivet har den offentlege desentraliserte handhevinga i det administrative sporet blitt styrka, og gjennom regelverk slik som DMA har Kommisjonen utvida si sentraliserte handhevingsmyndigheit av digitale teneste. I Noreg er ingen av desse regelverka implementerte endå, men vi ser dei same tendensane gjennom debattane som går i desse dagar om blant anna handhevingsverktøy som marknadsetterforsking og personstraff.
Medan marknadsetterforskingsverktøyet gir Konkurransetilsynet vid myndigheit til å gripe inn i marknader utan at konkurranseforboda er brotne og sånn sett søkjer å rettleie marknader før konkurransesituasjonen forverrast, utgjer personstraff ein meir klassisk sanksjon som kjem inn etter at eit av forboda er brotne både for å straffe dei som har gjort urett og avskrekke andre frå å gjere same økonomiske kriminalitet. Gjennomgåande for desse regelverka er at forvaltninga inntek rollar som tradisjonelt ligg til påtalestyresmakter og domstolsapparatet. Dette reiser ei rekkje prinsipielle spørsmål om maktbalanse, kontrollmekanismar og retten til rettferdig rettargang, og kan få konsekvensar både for rettsutvikling, rettsavklaring og rettsvisse.
Innleggshaldarar er

Professor Jon Petter Rui, juridisk fakultet UiB

Tina Søreide, Konkurransedirektør

Elin Moen, partner i BAHR

Vibeke Andersen, avdelingsdirektør i Konkurranseseksjonen, i Avdeling for konkurransepolitikk og næringsøkonomi i Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet

Link for digital deltagelse
PROGRAM:
09:30-09:40: Velkomst og introduksjon – meir makt til forvaltninga, fordelar og ulemper? Velkomspresentasjonen
09:35-10:15: Jon Petter Rui presenterer funna i rapport om individuelle sanksjonar for brot på konkurranselova. Kva inneber det å flytte sanksjonar frå strafferettssporet til det administrative sporet? RAPPORTEN
10:15-10:45: Tina Søreide: Er det eit behov for personstraff og kvifor? Korleis kan handhevingsverktøy som marknadsetterforsking gjere konkurransen meir effektiv? Søreides presentasjon
10:45-11:00: Pause
11:00-11:30: Elin Moen: Korleis responderer aktørane i marknaden, og kva skjer når aktørars fokus skiftar frå forbod til compliance? Moens presentasjon
11:30-12:00: Vibeke Andersen: Er det behov for nye verkemiddel i konkurransepolitikken? Andersens presentasjon
12-12:30: Debatt og spørsmål frå salen. Enkel lunsjservering

Velkommen!

Cultural exception? The impact of fixed book price regulation on prices and variety
2023-11-21 12:15 - 13:30 | Room E209/E210, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, Bergen, Norway
On November 21 Tommaso Valletti, professor at Imperial College London and professor II at NHH/BECCLE will hold a seminar about regulation in the book market. A few years ago Italy allowed for fixed book prices, where publishers set prices in the book stores. In this seminar Tommaso Valletti will use a detailed data set to present evidence on how such a regulation affected book variety and prices.
This is a joint seminar with CBE (Center for Business Economics) at NHH.
The seminar will not be streamed.
Professor Valetti has co-authored an article on the subject. The abstract of the article is as following:
Fixed book price (FBP) agreements are a form of resale price maintenance commonly applied to books in various countries. FBP restricts retail price competition with the aim of promoting book production variety. Yet, despite its popularity and application in many countries, there is no empirical evidence on its effects. We offer systematic evidence on the impact of FBP on book variety and prices using a detailed new dataset from Italy that includes the universe of books published and bought, before and after the introduction of FBP. Our results indicate that FBP raises prices without significantly affecting the number of new books published in the marketplace. However, it also increases considerably the variety of books actually bought, especially from independent bookstores. We estimate a structural model of demand that accounts for both effects, finding that consumers overall benefited from the regulation
Place: Department of Economics at NHH, Room E209
Time: Tuesday November 21 at 12.15-13.30

Storage and Renewable Energies: Friends or Foe?
2023-11-29 12:15 - 15:30 | Room E209/E210, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, Bergen, Norway
On November 29 Natalia Fabra, professor at Universidad Carlos III and professor II at NHH/BECCLE, will hold a seminar about market power in the power market. In particular, she will focus on the challenge associated with investment in intermittent power production (wind and solar), and at the same time invest in storage of energy
This is a joint seminar with CBE (Center for Business Economics) at NHH.
You can read the paper HERE.
The seminar will not be streamed.

Informasjonsutveksling som ei føremålsovertreding. Bokdatabase-saka under lupa.
2024-03-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
BECCLE inviterer til seminar om Bokdatabase-saka, og korleis saka er med på å klarleggje grensene for når informasjonsutveksling om pris utgjer ei føremålsovertreding etter konkurranselova § 10. Sentralt i denne saka var spørsmålet om det dreia seg om informasjon om framtidige eller noverande prisar, og tilgjengelegheita av denne informasjonen.

Innleggshaldarar er:
Juridisk direktør hos Konkurransetilsynet, Karin Stakkestad Laastad,

og
Partnar i Wikborg Rein, Preben Milde Thorbjørnsen.

Etter innlegga blir det høve til å stille faglege spørsmål og diskusjon.

Link for livestream

BECCLE Competition Policy Conference 2024
2024-05-30 08:00 - 2024-05-31 17:00
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the eighth annual BECCLE conference on competition policy on May 30-31 2024 in Bergen, Norway.
This year, the conference will take place at the Norwegian School of Economics. The conference combines invited sessions with accomplished speakers and open sessions with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.
For the open sessions, we now invite submissions of original research papers. Papers should be in the field of competition law and economics. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as case studies. Lawyers are especially encouraged to submit papers (working papers or published papers) or extended abstracts.
Time and date: 30th of May at 09:00 until 31st of May at 16:00
Location: Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30
Contact: For any questions, please contact the organizing committee by using the following email address: beccle@nhh.no
There is a seminar on Cartel Policy in Nordic Countries back-to-back with the BECCLE Conference. It will be held on Norwegian School of Economics May 29 at 12.30-16.30. You are all welcome to attend, and there is no registration. For more information, see HERE.
Information about the BECCLE conference May 30-31
The BECCLE conference is open also for persons not presenting a paper. There is no conference fee. We offer lunch free of charge to all attendees. We also offer a conference dinner (free of charge) to all presenters.
Update on the program, registration etc. will be published on this web page.
The final program you can find HERE.
You find information about the transport to and from the airport, as well as from the city center to Norwegian School of Economics, HERE.
Registration for attending the BECCLE Conference
You can register for attending the BECCLE conference HERE. The DEADLINE for registration is now closed.
Keynote speakers

Frank Verboven, University of Leuven: ‘Coordinated entry and competition policy’
Thibault Schrepel, Vrije University of Amsterdam: ‘How technical knowledge can and should inform antitrust analysis’.

Invited sessions
In addition, there will be four invited sessions with three invited speakers on each session:

Merger policy:

Tina Søreide (moderator) (Norwegian Competition Authority)
Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London and BECCLE/NHH))
Aviv Nevo (FTC and Univ Pennsylvania)
Hans Zenger (European Commission)

The future of Article 102:

Thomas Vinje (chair) (Clifford Chance and BECCLE/UiB))
Massimiliano Kadar (Deputy Head of Unit ‘Antitrust Telecoms’, DG COMP, the European Commission)
Tommaso Valletti (Imperical College London and NHH/BECCLE) (replacing Oliver Bethell on short notice)
Christian Bergqvist (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen)

Market design in power markets:

Natalia Fabra (chair) (Universidad Carlos III and BECCLE/NHH)
Bert Willems (Tilburg University)
Matti Liski (Aalto University School of Business)

Competition Policy and Labour Markets – are National Competition Authorities on Point?

Hans-Petter H. Hanson (chair), Chief Economist, the Norwegian Competition Authority
Marta Rocha (TBC), Acting Chief Economist, Autoridade de Concorrência (Portugal)
Jacob Schneebacher, Assistent Director of Econometrics, Competition and Markets Authority (United Kingdom)
Alexander LP Willén, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics

Submissions of papers
Papers should be submitted as a pdf-file to beccle.papers@nhh.no, no later than February 1, 2024. Submissions should include title, abstract (up to 200 words), author’s name(s) and affiliations, and contact details. Submissions of full papers are recommended, but we will also accept extended abstracts.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified no later than March 10, 2024. All papers will be allocated a discussant, and presenters may be asked to discuss a paper.
You can download the BECCLE 2024 Call for Papers as a pdf file HERE.
Scientific committee

Özlem Bedre-Defolie (European University)
Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III)
Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London)
Frode Steen (NHH)
Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen (U Bergen)
Ronny Gjendemsjø (U Bergen)
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (U Bergen)
Bjørn Olav Johansen (U Bergen)
Eeva Mauring (U Bergen)
Lars Sørgard (NHH)
Kurt Brekke (NHH)
Øivind Anti NIlsen (NHH)
Ingrid Margrethe Halvorsen Barlund (U Bergen)
Thomas Vinje (U Bergen)
Morten Sæthre (NHH)
Mateusz Mysliwski (NHH)
Anantha Divakaruni (NHH)
Odd Rune Straume (U Minho)
Teis Lunde Lømo (HVL)

Local organising committee

Paula Navarro Sarmiento (NHH)
Ole Kristian Dyskeland (NHH)
John Lilletvedt (U Bergen)
Camilla Hopsdal (NHH)

Seminar om arbeidsmarkedet og fusjonskontrollen
2024-10-03 14:00 - 15:45
De siste årene har det internasjonalt blitt mer fokus på konkurransepolitiske inngrep i arbeidsmarkedet. Både i Europa og USA har det blitt grepet inn mot tilfeller der arbeidsgivere blir enige om å ikke konkurrere om arbeidskraften (‘no poaching’ avtaler). De nye retningslinjene for fusjonskontroll i USA er tydelige på at det kan gripes inn mot fusjoner og oppkjøp som er skadelige for arbeidstakerne. Spørsmålet vi stiller på dette seminaret er hvorvidt en i Europa, og ikke minst i Norge, bør og kan fokusere mer på arbeidsmarkedet i fusjonskontrollen. Er det særskilte forhold i Norge som gjør det mindre aktuelt med et slikt fokus her? Hvordan skal en evt avveie hensyn til sluttbrukerne og hensynet til arbeidstakerne? Er det mulig innenfor dagens regelverk å gripe inn på tilsvarende måte som det som skisseres i de amerikanske retningslinjene for fusjonskontroll?
Professor Lars Sørgard fra Norges Handelshøyskole og BECCLE og professor Ronny Gjendemsjø fra Universitetet i Bergen og BECCLE vil innlede med å belyse problemstillingen fra henholdsvis et økonomisk og juridisk perspektiv. Deretter vil sjeføkonom Hans-Petter Hanson i Konkurransetilsynet og partner Beret Sundet i advokatfirmaet BAHR gi sine kommentarer, etterfulgt av en diskusjon mellom de fire. Det vil også bli åpnet for spørsmål og kommentarer fra salen. Møteleder vil være førsteamanuensis Ingrid Barlund fra Universitetet i Bergen.
Følg linkene nedenfor for å laste ned Powerpoint-presentasjonene til seminarets deltakere:

Lars Sørgard – Arbeidsmarkedet og fusjonskontrollen
Ronny Gjendemsjø – Fusjonskontroll og arbeidsmarkedet
Beret Sundet – Arbeidsmarkedet og fusjonskontrollen
Hans-Petter Håvås Hansson (oppdateres etterhvert)

Google Shopping: The Final Word from the Court of Justice - Consequences for the Future of Article 102
2024-11-12 10:15 | Auditorium 3, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Norway
Copyright: Google LLC
In September 2024, the European Court of Justice upheld the European Commission’s decision finding that Google had abused its dominant position in online search markets by favoring its own shopping service over those of its competitors in its general search results. The judgment addressed several of the most contested issues regarding the meaning of Article 102 and its enforcement.
Thomas Vinje will discuss the recent judgment and its meaning for the application of Article 102. Thomas represented the international trade association FairSearch in this case before the European Commission and the original complainant in the case (Foundem) before the European General Court and the Court of Justice. For a comprehensive overview of Thomas Vinje’s biography, please follow the link.

Our seminar will focus on the key issues resolved in the judgment, including the following:

When does a dominant company’s favouring of its own products or services constitute an abuse under Article 102? Does the Google Shopping judgment mean that a dominant company may never favour its own products or services?
What are the limits of the Bronner doctrine on refusals to supply?
What constitutes conduct by a dominant company that is not “on the merits” (which is one of the two basic criteria in determining whether a dominant company has infringed Article 102)? What factors may the Commission take into account in assessing whether conduct falls outside “competition on the merits”?
What must the Commission do to establish a causal link between the practices at issue and the alleged effects thereof? In particular, must the Commission in all cases undertake a counterfactual analysis to show how the market would have developed absent the conduct?
Is there any general requirement in Article 102 cases for the Commission to prove that the relevant conduct would exclude as-efficient competitors?
Finally, what implications does the Google Shopping judgment have for the Draft Guidelines on the Application of Article 102 recently published by the European Commission? More generally, we expect to discuss whether the Commission has adopted a valid approach to Article 102 case law in its draft Guidelines

Professor Ronny Gjendemsjø will be chairing the event.
Time and place:
University of Bergen, Faculty of Law
Tuesday November 12 10:15-12:00, Auditorium 3

To watch the recording of this lecture, please follow the link.

The Draghi Report and the future of Competition Policy and State Aid in Europe
2024-12-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1, Bergen, 5010, Norway
Copyright: European Commission
The Draghi Report was submitted to the European Commission in September this year, and it is an important input for the commission’s future work on competitiveness for Europe. Competition Policy is one of the issues discussed in the report. Although the report in general is in favor of an active and strict competition policy, there are some proposals that would lead to a less strict competition policy. In particular, the focus on firm scale – having large European firms to compete against foreign firms – will de facto lead to a less strict merger control. In the report the telecom sector is mentioned as one sector where scale in Europe is too limited, and where it is a need for mergers and acquisitions between European firms.

In this seminar, Tommaso Valletti will comment on the proposals in the Draghi report, generally about competition policy and state aid and in particular on merger control and the telecom sector. Valletti is professor at Imperial College London and adjunct professor at Norwegian School of Economics and BECCLE. He has for three years served as the chief economist in European Commission (Directorate General for Competition).
There will be time for comments and questions from the audience.
Date and Time: Thursday, December 5, from 12:00 to 13:30
Location: The Library, 5th Floor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
We look forward to your participation. For those unable to attend in person, the seminar will be streamed live via Zoom. Please follow this link to join us.

Seminar: Misbruk av dominans og ytelsesbasert konkurranse
2025-02-20 14:30 - 16:00
Copyright: Eurac Research
EU-kommisjonen har kommet med utkast til retningslinjer for misbruk av dominans (artikkel 102 i TFEU). Dette utkastet er av mange blitt tolket som at EU-kommisjonen nå i mindre grad enn det som fremkommer i deres veiledningsnotat (‘guidance paper’) fra 2008 vil basere seg på en effekt-basert analyse når de skal avgjøre om det dominerende firma sin adferd er lovstridig. Det er for eksempel satt opp to vilkår for at det skal være misbruk, der ett av dem er at det ikke er ytelsesbasert konkurranse (competition on the merits). I dette seminaret vil det bli drøftet hvordan vilkåret for å konstatere misbruk skal forstås, herunder om utkastet til retningslinjer sin definisjon er i tråd med rettspraksis.
Innledere vil være professor Erling Hjelmeng fra Universitet i Oslo og professor Ronny Gjendemsjø fra Universitet i Bergen, og seminaret vil bli ledet av professor Lars Sørgard ved Norges Handelshøyskole.
Tema: Misbruk av dominans og ytelsesbasert konkurranse
Innledere: Professor Ronny Gjendemsjø, Universitetet i Bergen og Erling J. Hjelmeng, Universitetet i Oslo.
Sted: Biblioteket, Juridisk Fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen
Når: Torsdag 20. februar kl 14.30-16.00
Powerpoint-presentasjoner fra seminaret:
Ronny Gjendemsjø:
BECCLE seminar ytelsesbasert konkurranse
Erling J. Hjelmeng:
Comp on the merits 200225

DG Comp from the inside
2025-03-19 10:15 - 12:00 | Auditorium 3, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Norway
Copyright: APCO Worldwide
Cecilio has over three decades of experience as an antitrust enforcer and regulator at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. In conversation with Madero, he will take us behind the scenes of how a competition law case is processed at the DG Comp.
Cecilio Madero Villarejo is senior counsel at APCO Worldwide since March 2023. He has over three decades of experience as an antitrust enforcer and regulator at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission.
The seminar will be a joint BECCLE-seminar and LLM-event.

Nordic Academic Network Conference in Competition Law, June 4-6, 2025
2025-06-04 - 2025-06-06

BECCLE Competition Policy Conference 2025
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-06 17:00
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the ninth annual conference on competition policy on 5-6 June 2025 in Bergen, Norway. This year, the conference will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.
Conference Registration is closed.
The conference will combine sessions with invited speakers with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.
For the open sessions at the BECCLE conference, we invited submissions of original research papers, with a deadline February 1. All papers will be allocated a discussant, and presenters may be asked to discuss a paper. Submission of papers is closed
The program you will find HERE
Keynote speakers and invited sessions
There will be two keynote speakers:

Professor Fiona Scott Morton,Yale School of Management: ‘Competition Enforcement and Ex Ante Regulation: Complements or Substitutes?’
Professor Herbert Hovenkamp,University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School: ‘Consumer Welfare as a Policy Directive’

In addition, there will be three invited sessions on the following topics:
Draft guidelines for Article 102
Chair: Thomas Vinje, Clifford Chance and BECCLE
Anne-Christine Witt, ECHEC Business School
Massimiliano Kadar, European Commission
Jorge Padilla, Compass Lexecon
Private Enforcement in Digital Markets
Chair: Ronny Gjendemsjø, BECCLE and Faculty of Law at University of Bergen
Gjermund Mathisen, Kvale Law Firm
Magnus Strand, Uppsala University
Helene Andersson, Delphi Law Firm
The Labour Market and Merger Control
Chair: Tommaso Valletti, BECCLE and Imperial College London
Miriam Larson-Koester, Federal trade Commission (FTC)
Axel Gottfries, University of Edinburgh
Lars Sørgard, BECCLE and Norwegian School of Economics
Transportation to and from the airport
There are multiple ways to get to the city center from the airport. The cheapest option is the Bergen Light Rail which can be paid for through an app or by buying a ticket from a ticket machine at the station.
A slightly faster option is the Airport Bus. Both the light rail and bus stop in the city center, close to Scandic Hotel Byparken.
Additional information
There is no conference fee. We offer lunch free of charge to all attendees. We also offer a conference dinner (free of charge) to all presenters. For updates on the conference, please revisit this website leading up to the conference. Information about the program, registration, and other practical information will be published here.
Time and location of the event
The event will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, 5-6 June 2025
Address: Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1
Contact
Please use the email address localbeccle@uib.no if you have questions.
Scientific Committee

Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London)
Frode Steen (NHH)
Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen (U Bergen)
Ronny Gjendemsjø (U Bergen)
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (U Bergen)
Bjørn Olav Johansen (U Bergen)
Eeva Mauring (U Bergen)
Lars Sørgard (NHH)
Ingrid Margrethe Halvorsen Barlund (U Bergen)
Thomas Vinje (U Bergen)
Mateusz Mysliwski (NHH)
Morten Sæthre (NHH)
Teis Lunde Lømo (HVL)
Tove Forsbacka (NHH)
Oscar Jara (NHH)

Local Organizing Committee

Elias Dahlberg
John Lilletvedt
Aurora Paulsen
Paula Navarro
Karianne Frønsdal

For program for earlier years, see HERE.

Data Protection, Competition and Consumer Law Interplay in a Data-Driven Economy: Evidence from Ukraine and Norway
2025-08-21 10:00 - 12:00
This seminar seeks to foster critical discussion among scholars, practitioners and regulatory experts on the legal and institutional frameworks governing digital markets, with the aim of gaining insights from Norway. Speakers from Ukraine will address the challenges of war for the data-driven economy and the impact of data protection and competition law. This will be followed by a round of reflections from a Norwegian perspective.
PROGRAMME
War and the Data-Driven Economy: Challenges and Solutions
Dr. Liudmyla Petrenko

Professor, Department of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Kyiv National Economic University after Vadym Hetman (KNEU); Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), 2022-2025

The presentation examines how Ukrainian digital platforms have strategically leveraged user data, regulatory frameworks, and innovative governance models to drive business growth and resilience in wartime conditions. Drawing on recent trends: The e-commerce market rose to nearly $4 billion in 2024, marking a ~30% YoY increase, driven by digital payments, mobile commerce, and omnichannel approaches. The IT and fintech sector, contributing almost 5% to GDP, reached $8 billion in revenue in 2023, underscoring the sector’s economic significance. The analysis emphasizes how digital technologies facilitated economic continuity, enabling remote work, sustaining export revenues, and supporting domestic consumption through innovative online platforms. Additionally, it addresses significant challenges, such as infrastructure damage, human capital loss, and cybersecurity threats, detailing Ukraine’s adaptive strategies including cloud migration, international collaboration, and enhanced digital governance. The study concludes by reflecting on how the crisis has accelerated digital transformation, creating lasting structural changes and global integration opportunities vital for Ukraine’s post-war economic recovery.
Data Protection and Competition Law: Cross-Regulatory Solutions for Ukraine
Dr. Nataliia Mazaraki

Chair of the International, civil and commercial law department, State University of Trade and Economics, Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), 2022-2025

The analysis identifies opportunities for cross-regulatory cooperation between Ukraine’s competition authority and data protection agencies, suggesting integrated regulatory approaches to effectively manage digital market power and safeguard personal data—essential components of Ukraine’s digital transformation and European integration. The research highlights cases and key regulatory trends in Ukrainian digital markets and data governance: (1) BlaBlaCar antitrust case (2025) – the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) fined the local operator approximately ₴424,000 for failing to provide requested competition information, marking the first enforcement action in the online P2P mobility sector and signaling broader scrutiny of digital platforms; (2) Kyiv Digital vs. MIA platform bias (2025) – AMCU issued formal recommendations to prevent state-led favoritism toward the MIA’s driving simulator app over private competitors, reinforcing the application of competition rules to government-backed platforms. Legal and market trends illustrate a dynamic shift, as Ukraine’s legal system actively shapes the governance of digital platforms by embedding competition and data protection principles into its digital economy framework: (а) Expanding AMCU enforcement – In 2024, the AMCU handled 312 information-related cases in digital markets, signaling a shift from traditional cartel oversight toward platform-centric regulation; (b) GDPR-aligned reforms – Draft Law № 8153 (2022) introduces new rights, breach notification requirements, and expanded definitions, deepening alignment with EU standards; (с) Digital public law innovation – Ukraine enacted laws on electronic documents and e-justice, supported by the Diia platform, enabling paperless courts and digital state services even during wartime; (d) Platform strategy meets legal control – Both state and private platforms are increasingly integrating AI-driven operations, privacy-by-design principles, and anti-bias compliance measures in response to AMCU enforcement and GDPR-style regulations.
Short comment from the NorwegianCompetition Authority (Konkurransetilsynet)
Round table discussion

Moderated by Liliia Oprysk

Date: 21 August 2025
Time: 10.00-12.00
Venue: Library at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
Registration HERE
The seminar will not be streamed

Google Android – Approaching the end of the saga?
2025-09-11 12:15 - 13:30 | Auditorium 3, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Norway
ADVOCATE GENERAL KOKOTT SAYS THE COURT OF JUSTICE SHOULD DISMISS GOOGLE’S APPEAL AND UPHOLD THE JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT
Thomas Vinje, Professor II on the Faculty of Law at UiB and BECCLE, and Senior Counsel / Chair Emeritus of Clifford Chance’s Global Antitrust Group, visits BECCLE to discuss the key issues addressed by Advocate General Kokott in her opinion in case C-738/22 P, Google Android. Thomas will discuss, in particular, AG Kokott’s positions on the two issues raised in Google’s Android appeal that are generally regarded as having great significance for the future of Article 102 jurisprudence, namely:

Was the Commission required to undertake a (but-for) counterfactual analysis proving how Google might have behaved had it not adopted the contested abusive conduct
Were the Commission (and the General Court) required to extend their examination beyond the capacity of Google’s tying conduct to restrict competition and to assess whether that conduct was capable specifically of foreclosing competitors as efficient as Google?

Thomas filed the complaint on behalf of FairSearch against Google that led the European Commission to pursue its case against Google on its Android-related conduct. He pursued the complaint throughout the administrative proceedings leading to the Commission’s decision against Google and represented FairSearch in support of the European Commission in Google’s appeal before the General Court and Court of Justice of the European Union.
Location: Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Auditorium 3
When: Thursday 11. september, 12.15-13.30
Vinje’s presentation
The seminar will be streamed and a zoom link will come here: https://uib.zoom.us/j/64389983842?pwd=[REDACTED]

Pricing in petrol markets
2025-11-18 12:15 - 13:30 | Room E209/E210, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30, Bergen, Norway
BECCLE would like to welcome you to this joint BECCLE and NHH (Micro research group) seminar on the pricing in petrol markets, which will take place at NHH on November 18.
For a long time there has been debate in many countries about the pricing in petrol markets. One question that has been frequently discussed, is whether the petrol price cycles that have been observed in many countries, is a sign of competition or collusion. At this seminar, Yiming Liu will discuss pricing behavior in petrol markets, with a particular focus on how behavioral models can help us to understand the toughness of price competition in these markets.
Yiming Liu, post doc at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Title: Pricing in petrol markets
Speaker: Yiming Liu, post doc at the University of Humboldt
Date and time: November 18, 12.15-13.30
Location: Department of Economics at NHH, Room E209/E210
Abstract of paper:
We show how cognitive constraints systematically shape pricing behavior in a firm with over 20,000 gas stations. Consistent with insights from behavioral models of bounded rationality, station managers with lower cognitive skills have biased mental models. These underestimate competitor sophistication and competitor retaliation for price cuts, and thus place more confidence in the efficacy and profitability of low prices. In the field, managers with lower cognitive skills set lower prices, and engage in more price wars. The resulting lower prices reduce profits and producer surplus, but increase consumer surplus and improve overall market efficiency.

BECCLE-seminar om NOU 2025: Revidert konkurranselov
2025-12-17 10:00 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
BECCLE ønskjer velkomen til seminar om den heilt ferske NOU-en om revidert konkurranselov. Seminaret finn stad 17. desember kl. 10:00–13:00 i Auditorium 4 ved Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen.
Seminaret opnar med ei innleiing ved Kristin Hjelmaas Valla, utvalsleiar, som vil presentere dei sentrale forslaga til endringar som utvalet legg fram. Deretter følgjer ein paneldebatt med deltakarar frå både offentleg forvaltning, akademia og privat næringsliv.
Paneldeltakarar:

Kristin Hjelmaas Valla, utvalsleiar og partnar i Advokatfirmaet Kvale
Hans Petter Håvås Hanson, utvalsmedlem og sjefsøkonom i Konkurransetilsynet
Ronny Gjendemsjø, leiar av BECCLE og professor ved Det juridiske fakultet, UiB
Helge Stemshaug, partnar i Advokatfirmaet BAHR
Karin Fløistad, leiar av Konkurranseklagenemnda og advokat
Marte Brathovde, advokatfullmektig hos Regjeringsadvokaten

Moderator: Lars Sørgard, styreleiar ved BECCLE og professor i økonomi ved NHH.

Det blir enkel servering.
Påmelding for både fysiske og digitale deltakarar:
Meld deg på via lenka under innan 12. desember:
påmelding avsluttet
Streaming
Seminaret blir direktesendt her: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67245423982?pwd=[REDACTED]
VELKOMMEN!

Private Enforcement of Competition Law
2026-03-05 10:00
Private enforcement of competition law, particularly through damages actions, has grown significantly across Europe over the past decade. Yet striking the right balance between effective public enforcement and safeguarding the rights of parties harmed by anticompetitive conduct remains a challenge. Despite important legislative initiatives, such as the Damages Directive from 2014, access to justice through national courts varies considerably across jurisdictions.
A key reason is the lack of full harmonization. Procedural autonomy continues to allow divergent national approaches to issues such as litigation funding, disclosure rules, and the balance between protecting leniency applicants and enabling effective claimant actions.
In this seminar, BECCLE is proud to bring together leading practitioners and scholars in the field of competition law. The programme will provide insight into the current regulatory framework, covering EU, EEA, and Norwegian perspectives, and examine a broad range of issues related to private enforcement of competition law. Drawing on practical experience, speakers will discuss how to build a claimant’s case and share concrete case examples, including insights from the UK system and the latest developments from Brussels.
The seminar will be chaired by Thomas Vinje, Senior Counsel at Clifford Chance and external affiliate at the University of Bergen. He will be joined by Nivi Balaji, Counsel at Clifford Chance; Sean Ennis, Professor at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia; and BECCLE’s own Associate Professor Ingrid Barlund.

Title: Private Enforcement of Competition Law
Date and time: Thursday March 5, 10.00 – 11.30
Location: Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
The seminar will be streamed, Zoom link

BECCLE seminar om økonomiske eksperters rolle i den private håndhevelsen av konkurransereglene
2026-04-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
BECCLE inviterer til seminar om økonomiske eksperters rolle i saker om erstatning for brudd på konkurransereglene den 16. april kl. 14:00 til 1530. Frode Steen (NHH og BECCLE) og Lars Sørgard (NHH og BECCLE) som begge har vært involvert i denne typen saker som ekspertvitner eller domstolsoppnevnte eksperter, vil innlede om temaet.
Det siste ti-året har vi sett en økt aktivitet hva angår erstatningssaker som følger av brudd på konkurranseloven. I slike saker er det krevende å beregne tapet for kundene som følge av bruddet på konkurransereglene. Anslag på tap som følge av konkurransebrudd, i den grad det skal beregnes, vil typisk bli gjort av økonomiske eksperter. I dette seminaret vil vi gjennom to eksempler belyse hvilken rolle økonomiske eksperter kan ha i erstatningssaker. Den ene saken omhandler ulovlig prissamarbeid i lastebilmarkedet i flere europeiske land, en sak som har gått for retten i Norge. Den andre saken omhandler misbruk av dominans i markedet for elektrisk kraft i Danmark, en sak som har gått for retten i Danmark.

Frode Steen er professor i samfunnsøkonomi ved Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi på NHH, og er nå leder for NHHs forskningsprogram FOOD på NHH som er finansiert av NorgesGruppen. Hans forskning og undervisning omhandler konkurranse, og han har vært mye brukt som ekspertvitne i konkurransesaker. Han representerte Posten i erstatningssøksmålet mot det såkalte lastebilkartellet som gikk for norske domstoler.

Lars Sørgard er professor i samfunnsøkonomi ved NHH, og hans forskning og undervisning omhandler konkurranse. Han var i perioden 2016-22 konkurransedirektør, og var i perioden 2022-25 leder for BECCLE. Han var skøndsmann (ekspert oppnevnt av retten) i saken om misbruk av dominans i markedet for elektrisk kraft i Danmark.

Tid: 16. april 2026 kl 14:00-15:30
Sted: Juridisk Fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen, Auditorium 4
Tema: Økonomiske eksperter i erstatningssaker
Innledere: Frode Steen og Lars Sørgard
The seminar will be streamed on Zoom

BECCLE Competition Policy Conference 2026
2026-06-04 08:00 - 2026-06-05 17:00
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the tenth annual conference on competition policy on 4-5 June 2026 in Bergen, Norway.
This year, the conference will take place at the Norwegian School of Economics. The conference will combine sessions with invited speakers with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.
The program will be available here as soon as it is finalised.
Time and date: 4th June at 08:30 until 5th of June at 15:45
Location: Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30
Contact: For any questions, please contact the organizing committee by using the following email address: beccle@nhh.no
Registration
The BECCLE conference is now open for registration for persons not presenting a paper. The registration form is available here. Deadline for registration is 27 May.
There is no conference fee. We offer lunch free of charge to all attendees. The conference dinner is reserved speakers and invited guests.
The program is available here: https://beccle.no/files/2026/05/beccle_program_2026_v1.pdf
Keynote speakers and invited sessions
There will be two keynote speakers:

Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam, Joint Pollutive Product Phase-Outs
Anne Witt, EDHEC Business School and EDHEC Augmented Law Institute, Excessive pricing and other unfair trading conditions — what’s the harm?

In addition, there will be three invited sessions on the following topics:
EU merger guidelines

John Kwoka (Northwestern University)
Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi University)
Hans Zenger (European Commission)

The Ongoing Revision of Regulation 1/2003

Peter Whelan (University of Leeds)
Xandra Reintjes (European Commission)
Marie Östman (Swedish Competition Authority)

Merger Efficiencies and Remedies

Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Christine Zulehner (University of Vienna)
Devesh Raval (Federal Trade Commission)

Transportation to and from the airport
There are multiple ways to get to the city center from the airport. The cheapest option is the Bergen Light Rail which can be paid for through an app or by buying a ticket from a ticket machine at the station.
A slightly faster option is the Airport Bus. Both the light rail and bus stop in the city center, close to Scandic Hotel Byparken.
