DICE Competition Policy Conference 2025
The Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics will host the 2025 DICE Competition Policy Conference, which will take place from 21 to 22 November at the IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) in Düsseldorf. Marking its second edition, DICE CPC 2025 brings together experts in competition economics and law from international universities, competition authorities, and institutions. The event aims to facilitate academic and policy-oriented exchange among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
The conference opens a day early, on 20 November, with an informal evening gathering exclusively for speakers and discussants. The main program begins on 21 November with a keynote lecture by Jacques Crémer, followed by presentations and a roundtable discussion on industrial policy, the new merger guidelines, and other current issues in competition policy, concluding the first day. The program continues on 22 November with further presentations and ends with a keynote lecture by Moritz Hardt.
The CPC 2025 Keynote Speakers
Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)
Moritz Hardt (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
The CPC 2025 Roundtable Guests
Griet Jans (Belgian Competition Authority)
Natalie Harsdorf (Austrian Federal Competition Authority)
Lars Sørgard (Norwegian School of Economics)
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Registration and Welcome
8:30 - 9:00
Keynote I: The Persistence of Dominance in the Digital Economy: Switching Costs, Network Effects and Their Friends
Presentation I: Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services
10:30 - 11:30
by Greg Taylor (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Jana Gieselmann (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Christian Wey (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Presentation II: Potential and Effective Exclusivity of New Drugs: A Comparison of Europe and the US
11:45 - 12:45
by Margaret K. Kyle (CERNA, MINES ParisTech)
Discussant: Alisa Frey (University of Würzburg)
Chair: Joel Stiebale (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Presentation III: Sequencing Bilateral Negotiations with Externalities
Presentation IV: Common Ownership and Collusion
15:00 – 16:00
by Catarina Marvão (University College Dublin)
Discussant: Tobias Werner (University of Southampton)
Chair: Christian Wey (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Presentation V: Price Discrimination and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry
16:15 - 17:15
by Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol)
Discussant: Hendrik Döpper (CUNEF University)
Chair: Alexander Rasch (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Presentation VI: Decoding China's Industrial Policies
Roundtable Discussion: EU Merger Guidelines and Industrial Policy
Presentation VII: Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
Presentation VIII: The Efficiency Effects of Platform Ranking Regulation
Keynote II: The Future of Prediction
Keynotes
Roundtable
Presentations
Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol)
Ming Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Catarina Marvão (University College Dublin)
Margaret K. Kyle (CERNA, MINES ParisTech)
Imke Reimers (Cornell University)
Markus Reisinger (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Hendrik Döpper (CUNEF University)
Kai Fischer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Alisa Frey (University of Würzburg)
Jana Gieselmann (University of Edinburgh)
Reinhold Kesler (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Giulia Sabbadini (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)