CRESSE Conferences deal with Competition and/or Sectoral Regulation issues with emphasis on the policy relevance of recent research. The objective is to give the opportunity for a limited number of high quality papers to be presented and discussed in detail. A second objective is to provide a forum for economists and legal experts to meet and exchange ideas.

An important aspect of the Conference is the organisation of Round Tables with participants from academia but also from policy practice, regulated enterprises, the EU Commission etc.

CRESSE 2018 Conference Keynote Speakers: 
 Competition Policy Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dennis Carlton (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Title: "How Transaction Costs Should Influence Competition Policy and Our Economic Models"
 J-J Laffont Lecture by Prof. John Vickers (University of Oxford) 
Title: "Competition with Captive Customers"

Special Keynote Lecture by Dr. David Evans (Chairman of Global Economics Inc.)
Title: "The Antitrust Economics of Multisided Platforms: A Progress Report on the Economic Literature and Its Application to Cases"

Keynote Lawyers’ Lecture by Prof. Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Title: "Is the Consumer Welfare Principle Imperiled?"

Special Keynote Lecturer by Prof. Eleanor Fox (New York University School of Law)
Title: "Antitrust and Sovereignty: Dealing with Clash and Forging Community in the Absence of Global Law"

The 13th CRESSE Conference will take place 29th June – 1st July 2018 at the OUT OF THE BLUE Capsis Elite Resort.

2018 Conference Program - Past CRESSE Keynote Speakers

Conference Scientific Committee
The CRESSE Scientific Committee consists of Prof. Joe Harrington, Business Economics and Public Policy Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2010 - ), Prof. Patrick Rey, University of Toulouse (2006 - ), Prof. D. Ulph, University of St. Andrews (2006 - ), Dr. P. Regibeau, Charles River Associates (2012 - ), Prof. Thomas Ross Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (2014 - ) and Prof. Yannis Katsoulacos, AUEB (2006 - ), who also acts as Chairman and Coordinator. Prof. Massimo Motta (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) was a member of the Scientific Committee from 2006 – 2010.

CRESSE Advisory Board
The Board consists of individuals of outstanding reputation in competition law and policy. 

The Members of the Board are:

Prof. Frederic Jenny (ESSEC Business School; Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee)

Prof. William Kovacic (The George Washington University Law School, former Federal Trade Commission Chairman) 

Prof. Aviv Nevo (The Wharton School and Dept. of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, former Chief Economist at Antitrust Division of Dept. of Justice)

Prof. Howard Shelanski (Georgetown University, formerly Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. FTC and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)


CRESSE Associates
International network of prominent scholars, policy makers and practitioners in Competition Policy and Regulation that are involved in the Summer School, the Lawyers’ Course and / or the Conference as regular participants and provide a channel between CRESSE and the academic, policy and consultancy community. 

CRESSE Associates (Academics – Economists) 
Prof. John Asker, Prof. Heski Bar-Isaac, Prof. Gregory Crawford, Prof. Claude Crampes, Prof. Vincenzo Denicolo, Prof. Federico Etro, Prof. Amelia Fletcher, Prof. Chiara Fumagalli, Prof. Christos Genakos, Prof. Katernia Kyriazidou, Prof. Kai​-Uwe Kuhn, Prof. Peter Mollgaard, Prof. Juan-Pablo Montero, Prof. Fiona Scott Morton,  Prof. Volker Nocke, Prof. Martin Peitz, Prof. Michele Polo, Prof. Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro, Prof. Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Prof. Giancarlo Spagnolo, Prof. Yossi Spiegel, Prof. Rune Stenbacka, Prof. Guofu Tan, Prof. Tommaso Valletti, Prof. Frank Verboven, Prof. Thibaud Verge, Prof. Nikolaos Vettas, Prof. Glen Weyl, Prof. Julian Wright, Prof. Guangliang Ye.


CRESSE Associates (Law, Policy and Practice)
Mr. Tembinkosi Bonakele, Dr. Cristina Caffarra, Dr. Jet Deng, Prof. Damien Geradin, Prof. Ioannis Kokkoris, Dr. Assimakis Komninos, Prof. Ioannis Lianos, Dr. Frank P. Maier-Rigaud, Prof. Philip Marsden, Dr. Liberty Mncube, Dr. Jorge Padilla, Prof. Daniel Sokol, Prof. Dimitris Tzouganatos.

                       
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To see the CRESSE 2018 Call for papers click here.