Veranstaltungen

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum 313

Abstract:
The digitization of economic activity has important socio-economic development implications and at the same time creates challenges for antitrust analysis. These implications and challenges have been met differently in jurisdictions around the world.  We analyze the different experiences in the EU and developing countries, focusing on mobile payments. We find that this market exhibits special characteristics that need to be taken into account in the analysis of competition conditions. First, it is enabled by mobile telecommunications infrastructure and is offered by network operators, which causes competition in both markets to be closely linked. Second, there is still regulatory arbitrage which potentially favors mobile payments. Third, there are factors, such as the lack of interoperability and geographical reach, that make network effects in this industry different from those present in other platforms. Fourth, since mobile payments in developing countries serve a niche—the population underserved by mainstream banking—the definition of the relevant market is not straightforward. We propose the criteria to be applied when making such definition. Finally, since mobile payments have associated financial services, there is an interaction between competition and financial stability that needs to be considered.

Hinweis: Dieses Seminar besitzt einen interdisziplinären Charakter und folgt einem neuartigem Format: Nach einem 30-minütigen Einführungsvortrag von Jörg und Paco werden wir uns während der Diskussion auf die ökonomischen Aspekte des Projekts konzentrieren.

Ansprechpartnerin: Zhaoxin Pu

Moderation: Dr. Natale Rampazzo

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum E10

Falls Sie teilnehmen möchten, melden Sie sich bitte bis Freitag, 6. Juli 2018 an bei Frau Rosanna Würf (rosanna.wuerf(at)miplc.de).

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung entnehmen Sie bitte der Einladung.

Veranstaltungsort:
Technische Universität München,
Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München, Theodor-Fischer-Hörsaal (HS 0360)

Wissenschaftliche Leitung:
Dr. Lena Maute, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsrecht und Geistiges Eigentum, Technische Universität München, lena.maute(at)tum.de
Dr. Dr. Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt, LL.M. (NYU), Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, mark-oliver.mackenrodt(at)ip.mpg.de

Veranstaltungsprogramm als pdf zum Download

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum E10

Gianluca Monte, case handler bei der DG COMP, wird über den ISU-Fall (International Skating Union) sprechen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Exklusivitätsklauseln, mit denen Sportverbände es den Athleten oder Clubs verbieten, bei Wettbewerben außerhalb des offiziellen Verbandes zu starten. Zudem geht es auch um Schiedsvereinbarungen im Sport, die vom BGH im Pechstein-Fall und von der Kommission ISU-Fall unterschiedlich bewertet worden sind.

In Kooperation mit dem Münchner Kartellrechtsforum e.V. (www.kartellrechtsforum.de)

Wie gewohnt lädt das Kartellrechtsforum e.V. anschließend zum informellen Austausch bei Getränken und Häppchen ein.

Zur besseren Planung bitten wir um Anmeldung bis zum 22.06.2018 bei delia.zirilli(at)ip.mpg.de. 

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum 313

Abstract:
Generic penetration in the U.S. pharmaceutical market has increased, providing significant gains in consumer surplus. What impact has this had on the rate and direction of pharmaceutical innovation? While the overall level of drug development activity has increased, our estimates suggest a sizable, robust, negative relationship between rising generic penetration and early-stage pharmaceutical innovation in the same therapeutic areas. We also find that increasing generic penetration induces firms to shift their R&D activity towards more biologic-based products and away from chemical-based products. We conclude by discussing potential implications of our results for long-run welfare, policy, and innovation.

Ansprechpartnerin: Zhaoxin Pu

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum 313

Abstract:
We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic firms using a new, representative firm-level data set spanning six countries. A novel finding is that firm-level spillovers from foreign firms to domestic companies can be significantly positive, non-existent, or even negative, depending on which sectors receive FDI. When foreign firms produce in the same narrow sector as domestic firms, the latter are negatively affected by increasing competition and positively affected by knowledge spillovers. We find that the positive spillovers dominate if foreign firms enter sectors where firms are “technologically close,” controlling for the endogeneity of their entry decision into such sectors. Positive technology spillovers also affect firms in other sectors, if those sectors are technologically close to the sectors receiving FDI. Increasing FDI in sectors that are technologically close to other sectors boosts TFP of domestic firms by twice as much as increasing FDI by the same amount across all sectors.

Ansprechpartnerin: Zhaoxin Pu

In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, the Oxford University and the University of Haifa will hold a workshop at the premises of the Max Planck Institute on 15-16 June 2018 to discuss the benefits and especially the risks of algorithms given the exponential growth of their use in the marketplace.

In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, the Association Internationale de Droit Economique (AIDE) will hold a workshop at the premises of the Max Planck Institute on 11 June 2018 to discuss the role of economic law as regards the current crises of democracy.

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