2004 Oxford Competition Policy Conference

The 2004 conference, held at Merton College, Oxford, included the following papers and presentations (links to the papers are available where possible):

 

Professor John Vickers, Office of Fair Trading - "Good Government for Free Markets" -

Professor George Yarrow, Director, RPI - "Antitrust and Regulation: An Uncertain Boundary?" -

Peter Freeman, Deputy Chairman, Competition Commission and Chairman, RPI -"UK Merger Control Procedure: the Competition Commission Perspective" -

 

2003 Oxford Competition Policy Conference

Criminalisation of Cartels - A Mock Trial

 

A transcript of the mock trial of the Criminalisation provisions of the Enterprise Act (2003) held at the 2003 conference is available here.

 

Participants in the mock trial included:

Dr. Zoltan Biro, Frontier Economics

Grey Denham, GKN plc.

Peter Freeman, RPI, Competition Commission

Peter Roth QC, Monckton Chambers

Tom Sharpe QC, One Essex Court

Irwin Stelzer, RPI, The Sunday Times, Hudson Institute

John Swift QC, Monckton Chambers

Dr. Mark Williams, NERA

 

Earlier Conferences

Selected papers presented at previous Oxford Conferences are now available to be downloaded:

• Professor John Vickers' (Chairman, OFT) presentation: "Merger Guidelines: A Comparative Perspective"
• Mr Jonathan Rees' (DTI) presentation: "EU Modernisation: Making it Work in the UK"
• Professor John Vickers' paper: "Competition Policy and Innovation"
• Dr. Derek Morris' paper: "Developments in Competition Policy: Mergers and Oligopolies"
• Professor Paul Klemperer's paper: "What Really Matters in Auction Design"

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