DAY “0”: BRICS COMPETITION CONFERENCE

Experts will meet at a workshop to discuss a Report of BRICS Antimonopoly Centre of new approaches to competition protection under the conditions of digital economy

On 16 September 2019, BRICS Antimonopoly Centre organizes an International Academic Workshop with leading researchers in the field of antimonopoly regulation from BRICS, Europe and the USA. The venue is Higher School of Economics.

The workshop agenda includes pressing issues and challenges in the field of competition protection that the current digital reality puts to the international academic and expert community, such as: developing a new competition paradigm for digital markets; digital aggregator platforms; legal and economic aspects of legislative algorithms; global regulatory antitrust; and the future of a new-breed digital reality, associated with boost of the Internet of things and big data.

Alexei Ivanov, Director ofBRICS Antimonopoly Centre, the Institute of Law and Development, higher School of Economics – Skolkovo commented: “On Day “0” of the Conference we will have an unusual academic workshop. We have invited a number of leading world-renowned scholars to Moscow, first of all, those who were involved in the work on the Report of BRICS Antimonopoly Centre about new approaches to competition protection in the digital economy. The Report will be presented on 19 September as part of the main progamme of the BRICS Conference, while on 16 September we will held a thorough conversation on the main provisions of the Report and in general on the key challenges to antimonopoly policy associated with a fast-changing technological mode. As usually, each of out invited guests will not have much time to speak out during the main programme of BRICS Competition Conference due to its tight session schedule and a lot of representatives of antimonopoly bodies and other authorities from all over the world attending the event. Therefore, the International academic workshop on 16 September, that is not clenched in the rigid  rules, will be very much to the point on the eve of the “Big” Conference for all those interested in the current global agenda of antimonopoly policy. At our Higher School of Economics we look forward to see BRICS Conference participants – several hundreds of them are coming from all over the world - as well as our colleagues from Moscow university community. It should be an interesting and useful event”.

According to Deputy Head of FAS Andrey Tsyganov, “modern competition policy is impossible without an in-depth research basis. It concerns also strategic developments and decisions on particular cases. Professional opinions in new fields of knowledge – whether genetic engineering or digital economy – are very valuable for us, the enforcers”.

Background:

BRICS Antimonopoly Centre is formed on the basis of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in 2018. The Centre is involved in applied research and expert-and-analytical work for the purposes of improving competition policy and enforcement of competition law in BRICS as well as to coordinate the efforts of the antimonopoly bodies and academic communities of the BRICS countries.  

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