Conference on competition policy

On 23 and 24 April 2015, the Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) organised an international conference on competition policy.

27.04.2015 - Text: Sigrid Folkestad. Photo: Helge Skodvin

The conference is going to be an annual event for the Center, which is a collaboration between NHH and the University of Bergen.

Keynote speaker on the first day of the conference, Professor Joe Harrington from University of Pennsylvania, gave the presentation The Current State of the Theory of Collusion: Unexplained Phenomena and Unexplored Directions.

Keynote speaker on the second day was Professor Patrick Ray from Toulouse School of Economics. The title of his keynote was Cooperation v. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-operation.

Read more about the conference in previous article: BECCLE Competition Policy Conference (Paraplyen, April 2015)

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Professors Lars Sørgard (NHH), Tommy S. Gabrielsen (Univ. of Bergen), Joe Harrington (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Frode Steen (NHH).

80 people participated at the conference, and 36 presentations were given.

Professor Joe Harrington from University of Pennsylvania.