Friday, January 26, 2024
NYU School of Law
108 West 3rd Street
Lipton Hall
Conference Co-sponsors
NYU School of Law
American Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section
Conference Co-Organizers
Daniel Francis, NYU School of Law
D. Daniel Sokol, USC Gould School of Law
Abstract
This free day long Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy & Data Protection Scholars Conference provides an opportunity for professors in law, economics, accounting, finance, management, information system, operations management, and marketing who began their full-time tenure-track career in or after 2016 to present their latest research. Senior scholars and practitioners in the field will comment on the papers.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Sign-In for MCLE (U.S. CLE)
The ABA will seek 5.25 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states and 6.3 hours of CLE credit for this program in 50-minute states. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Registration
Conference is free and open to the public. For registration and more information visit the ABA Section of Antitrust Law.
Agenda
8:45am REGISTRATION & CLE SIGN-IN
9:15am WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Daniel Francis, Conference Co-Chair, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Fiona A. Schaeffer, ABA Antitrust Section Chair, Milbank LLP, New York, NY
D. Daniel Sokol, Conference Co-Chair, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
9:30am SESSION 1: PLATFORMS
What do we know about digital platforms? This panel will examine the strength of the economic basis for regulating behavioral advertising -- a ubiquitous feature of life in the digital age -- as well as evidence of the welfare consequences of certain platforms and the relationship between product development and platform fees. It will bring together empirics and theory for a tour of the cutting edge of competition policy on the tech frontier.
Moderator: Anne Catherine Faye, Analysis Group, Boston, MA
Presenter: Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Are There Economic Grounds for Regulating Behavioral Ads?
Discussant: Ginger Jin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Presenter: Avinash Collins, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Discussant: Christopher Conlon, NYU Stern School of Business, New York, NY
Presenter: Wei (Arthur) Lu, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, New York, NY
Product Development and Platform Fees Design
Discussant: Kinshuk Jerath, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
Session discussant: Yujie Qian, Compass Lexecon, New York, NY
11:15am BREAK
11:30am SESSION 2: OPERATIONALIZING ANTITRUST
Antitrust has many complicated corners where principle and institutional realities seem to be at odds. This panel will examine three of them: competition enforcement outside the antitrust agencies; the elusive notion of employer power; and coordinated effects theories of merger illegality. In each case, the competition mission is clear in theory but under-realized in practice. This panel will ask whether and how the frontiers of enforcement can be pushed ahead in these zones of complexity.
Moderator: Sheila R. Adams, James, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY
Presenter: Erika Douglas, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
Antitrust Abandonment
Discussant: Harry First, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Presenter: Hiba Hafiz, Boston College Law School, Newton Centre, MA
On Quantifying Employer Power and Its Harms
Discussant: Timothy Wu, Columbia Law School, New York, NY
Session discussant: Juan A. Arteaga, Crowell & Moring LLP, New York, NY
12:40pm LUNCH
1:35pm LUNCH PANEL: FRAMING RESEARCH (NON-CLE)
Moderator: Daniel Francis, Conference Co-Chair, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Kinshuk Jerath, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
Ginger Jin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
D. Daniel Sokol, Conference Co-Chair, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Sprigman, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Timothy Wu, Columbia Law School, New York, NY
2:25pm SESSION 3: COMPETITION AND SOCIETY
Competition policy has always existed in a broader soup of ideas, cultural commitments, and historical trends: these inform our understandings of competition and are in turn informed by them. This panel will examine two points of interface between competition and its rich context: first, a backward look at the changing concept of "market power"; and second, a peek into the present and future of AI standards.
Moderator: Taylor M. Owings, BakerBotts LLP, Washington, DC
Presenter: Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Antitrust Law and Democratic Capitalism: What the Historical Meaning of Market Power Reveal about the Antitrust-Democracy Nexus
Discussant: Eleanor Fox, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Presenter: Mehmet I. Canayaz, Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business, University Park, PA
Crafting an AI Compass: The Influence of Global AI Standards on Firms*
Discussant: Robert Seamans, NYU Stern School of Business, New York, NY
Session discussant: Claire Chunying Xie, NERA Economic Consulting, Washington, DC
3:35pm BREAK
3:50pm SESSION 4: EVIDENCE FROM THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Policymakers and scholars often yearn for better evidence of the workings of digital markets, in efforts to make deliberation more informed and regulatory choices more accurate. But reliable evidence can be difficult to find! This panel will take a zoomed-in look at two empirical projects that are helping to build our understanding of tech-platform practices and their implications: the relationship between self-preferencing and consumer choice, and the impact of market entry by home-sharing platforms.
Moderator: Katherine A. Rocco, Latham & Watkins, New York, NY
Presenter: Chiara Farronato, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Self-Preferencing & Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: Senthil Veeraraghavan, The Wharton School, Pennsylvania, PA
Presenter: Tingting Nian, UCI Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine, CA
Impacts of the Sharing Economy Entry and Regulations on Financial Delinquencies
Discussant: Lawrence J. White, NYU Stern School of Business, New York, NY
Session discussant: Thomas A. McGrath, Linklaters LLP, New York, NY
5:00pm CLOSING REMARKS
Daniel Francis, Conference Co-Chair, NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Fiona A. Schaeffer, ABA Antitrust Section Chair, Milbank LLP, New York, NY
D. Daniel Sokol, Conference Co-Chair, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
5:05pm RECEPTION
6:00pm CONCLUSION