Google Android – Approaching the end of the saga?
2025-09-11 12:15 - 13:30 (Europe/Oslo) | 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:
https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=20298808
Streaming
Seminaret blir direktesendt her: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67245423982?pwd=[REDACTED]
VELKOMMEN!
