17th Annual Conference: Living with Market Concentration? New Perspectives on Merger Policy

Name: 17th Annual Conference: Living with Market Concentration? New Perspectives on Merger Policy
Start: 2016-06-16T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2016-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
Location: National Press Club

June 16, 2016
National Press Club

The American Antitrust Institute hosted its 17th Annual Conference “Living with Market Concentration? New Perspectives on Merger Policy” on Thursday, June 16, 2016. The plenary panels and breakout sessions focused on merger enforcement against a backdrop made more complex by the wave of recent consolidation, growing evidence on the effects of previous consolidation, and challenges posed by merger remedies.

The conference highlighted several major and frontier issues in merger enforcement. Northeastern University Professor John Kwoka discussed the growing challenge of merger remedies from his latest book Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies (MIT Press). Penn State Law Professor Beth Farmer moderated the afternoon plenary panel on mergers with international dimensions. Breakout sessions focused on critical, evolving, and innovative issues, such as the role of economics in antitrust analysis, defining markets around customers and channels, competitive effects and bargaining power, private merger litigation, and broadening the lens on merger review.

Bill Baer, the Acting Associate Attorney General of the Department of Justice, delivered the keynote address at the conference luncheon.

Jonathan W. Cuneo received the AAI’s Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement.

Jonathan B. Baker was awarded the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship for his article “Taking the Error Out of ‘Error Cost’ Analysis: What’s Wrong with Antitrust’s Right,” 80 Antitrust L.J. 1 (2015).

9:00 am

WELCOME AND OVERVIEW

Diana Moss, President, American Antitrust Institute

9:30 am

THE GROWING CHALLENGE OF MERGER REMEDIES

Presenter:
John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, Northeastern University; Director, American Antitrust Institute

Responders:
Leah Brannon, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Daniel P. Ducore, Assistant Director for Compliance, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission

11:00 am

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
I. Bargaining Power and Other Novel Theories of Competitive Harm

Moderator:
Christopher Sagers, James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, Cleveland- Marshall College of Law

Panelists:
Deborah L. Feinstein, Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission

Joshua S. Gans, Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Robin Lee, Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Harvard University

William Rogerson, Harold and Virginia Anderson Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

II. A Fresh Look at the Role of Economics in Antitrust Analysis

Moderator:
Roger Noll, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Stanford University

Panelists:
Wayne Dale Collins, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Bonny E. Sweeney, Partner, Hausfeld

III. Defining Antitrust Markets Around Customers and Channels – Murrow

Moderator:
Randy Stutz, Associate General Counsel, American Antitrust Institute

Panelists:
Charles Loughlin, Deputy Chief Trial Counsel, Federal Trade Commission

Frederick R. Warren-Boulton, Managing Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc.