Morning Briefing: Virtual Competition

Brussels, 1st December 2016, 08:00 am – 10:00 am

While consumers reap many benefits from online purchasing, the sophisticated algorithms and data-crunching that make browsing so convenient are also changing the nature of market competition, and not always for the better. In markets continually manipulated by bots and algorithms, is competitive pricing an illusion?

Virtual Competition raises timely questions, amongst which computers colluding, consumer profile-tracking, behavioral discrimination and the impact of sales of personal data on competition.

With

Ariel Ezrachi
Professor of Law, University of Oxford

Ashwin Ittoo
Professsor, HEC Management School, Univeristy of Liege

Cyril Ritter
Case officer, DG Competition, EU Commission

Maurice Stucke
Professor of Law, Univeristy of Tennesse
of counsel, The Konkurrenz Group

Breakfast will be served from 08:00 am to 8:30 am

Register here!

The flyer of the event is availabe here .

Edit: the slides of the event are now available: A. Ezrachi & M. Stucke, Virtual Competition .