Making digital markets work for people –Fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare in dialogue
LUND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
MAKING DIGITAL MARKETS WORK FOR PEOPLE – FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN DIALOGUE | 7 FEBRUARY 2025
Have you also been totally immersed in discussions about competition law and economics of digital markets and artificial intelligence, more narrowly, issues relating to fairness and consumer welfare in those contexts?
The intersection of fairness and competition law has noted a revival with added focus on digital markets and tech giants in the EU through the enactment of e.g. Digital Markets Act and a range of ongoing investigations against e.g. Apple and Google.
This conference seeks to explore the implication of fairness as a competition law and regulatory concept applied to e.g. digital and AI markets, focusing on the normative implications for enforcement of competition law and regulatory tools such as the Digital Markets Act and the EU AI Act in digital and algorithmic markets.
The conference involves selected presentations from leading and emerging Nordic and European scholars relating to the European regulation and intervention in the digital economy, with a particular interest in the normative justification and practical implications of specific measures (e.g., DSA, DMA, AI Act) and the interconnection between fairness, efficiency and consumer welfare regarding competition law and economics of digital and AI markets.
The conference features a lineup of renowned keynote speakers and roundtable experts, along with numerous other distinguished contributors.
Discover more and delve into the programme details below!
Looking forward to an interesting conference,
Dr. Behrang Kianzad
Dr. Johan Axhamn
Department of Business Law, LUSEM
MAKING DIGITAL MARKETS WORK FOR PEOPLE – FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN DIALOGUE | 7 FEBRUARY 2025
The conference is organised by Dr. Behrang Kianzad and Dr. Johan Axhamn at Department of Business Law, LUSEM and Dr. Fabrizio Esposito from Nova Law School, Lisbon, in collaboration with ACLU.
The conference is made possible by generous grants by Center for European Studies at Lund University, AI Lund as well as Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Johan & Jakob Söderbergs Stiftelse.
MAKING DIGITAL MARKETS WORK FOR PEOPLE – FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN DIALOGUE | 7 FEBRUARY 2025
PROGRAMME FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY IN EC2:101 AT LUSEM / MORNING
08.30 REGISTRATION & MORNING COFFEE
09.00 WELCOME ADDRESS
Joakim Gullstrand Dean at LUSEM.
09.05 PRACTICAL INFORMATION BY THE CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
09.10 KEYNOTE 1: FAIRNESS AND PATERNALISM
Alexander Cappelen. FAIR, Norwegian School of Economics.
09.30 – 11.00 SESSION 1: WORKING TOWARDS WHAT?
Lyuxing Thao. Durham University Consumer Choice Trumps Consumer Welfare: The Best Springboard for ‘Fairness’ in DMA to Reach Consumers.
Nada Ina Pauer. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Philosophical Impetus to Determine Fair Market Conduct – Ascertaining Fairness Theorems for Digital Markets.
Mario Iacovides et alia. Uppsala University. The New Goals of EU Competition Law: Sustainability, Labour Rights, and Privacy.
Fabrizio Esposito. Nova Law School. Consumer Welfare Standard, fairness and Efficiency in Dialogue.
Chair: Behrang Kianzad Department of Business Law, LUSEM.
11.00 SWEDISH FIKA
11.30 – 13.00 SESSION 2: AI AND DATA FOR THE PEOPLE
Luca Arnaudo. Italian Competition Authority. Algorithmic Pricing and Price Controls: Ways Ahead.
Sarah Al Jashi. Tilburg University. Lessons about Art. 102 TFEU and Excessive Data Extractions in the Era of Big Data.
Thomas Eger et alia . University of Hamburg. Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law in the EU – An Economic Perspective.
Ruben Verdoodt. KU Leuven. Scrutinising AI partnerships: win-win or winner-takes-all?
Chair: Johan Axhamn. Department of Business Law, LUSEM.
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
MAKING DIGITAL MARKETS WORK FOR PEOPLE – FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN DIALOGUE | 7 FEBRUARY 2025
PROGRAMME FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY IN EC2:101 AT LUSEM / AFTERNOON
14.00 KEYNOTE 2
Fabiana di Porto. University of Salento. Research Methods in Competition Law: Identifying and Evaluating Welfare Standards Across Doctrinal, Empirical, and Computational Approaches.
14.30 – 16.00 SESSION 3: COMPETITION, REGULATION & INNOVATION
Behrang Kianzad. Department of Business Law, LUSEM. Johan Axhamn. Department of Business Law, LUSEM. Abuse of data as an unfair practice between competition and regulation of digital markets.
Elisabeth Wondracek. Heinrich Heine University. Fundamental rights in digital markets – a theory of harm or an isolated Facebook-phenomenon?
Maria Jose Schmidt. Central European University. The Role of EU Platform Regulation and Competition Law in Enhancing Fairness on Digital Music Markets.
Hedvig K Schmidt. University of Southhampton. The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law - Fairness, Market Power and Innovation.
Chair: Fabrizio Esposito. Nova Law School.
16.00 SWEDISH FIKA
16.20 KEYNOTE 3
Kalpana Tyagi Maastricht University. When Fairness, Innovation and Access met: A trilateral dilemma at the convergence of pharma & digital innovation.
16.40 KEYNOTE 4
Björn Lundqvist. University of Stockholm. Self-preferencing under Competition Law.
17.00 CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Johan Sahl (Swedish Competition Authority), Jörgen Hettne (LUSEM), Alexander Cappelen (University of Bergen), Kalpana Tyagi (Maastricht University), Fabiana di Porto (University of Salento), Björn Lundqvist (University of Stockholm), Amir Mohseni (Bokwall och Rislund), Behrang Kianzad (LUSEM).
18.00 FINAL REMARKS
Jörgen Hettne. Head of department and Professor in Business Law at LUSEM.
18.05 END OF CONFERENCE
20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER FOR SPEAKERS AND KEYNOTES
MAKING DIGITAL MARKETS WORK FOR PEOPLE – FAIRNESS, EFFICIENCY AND CONSUMER WELFARE IN DIALOGUE | 7 FEBRUARY 2025