- Highlights
- Agenda
IPCIDE, nasscom & ADBI Roundtable
Regulating Competition in Digital Markets
27th February 2024, 2.50 PM onwards
Venue: Marigold, India Habitat Centre
Agenda
2:50 β 3:20 pm:Β Tea/coffee and networking
3:20 β 3:25 pm:Β Welcome Remarks by Deepak Mishra, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER
3:25 β 3:30 pm:Β Opening Remarks by Peter J. Morgan, Senior Consulting Economist and Advisor to the Dean, ADBI
3:30 β 3:50 pm: Keynote Address on Lessons from the European experiment with the regulation of digital markets by Jacques CrΓ©mer, Special Adviser to European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager & Professor Toulouse School of Economics
Moderated by Payal Malik, Visiting Professor, ICRIER
3:50 β 4:15 pm: Regulating Competition in Digital Markets: Global Perspectives
Speakers
β Vicente Bagnoli, Partner at Vicente Bagnoli Advogados; Professor of Law at Mackenzie University
β Anne-Claire Hoyng, Global Head of Competition Policy, Prosus
β James Hodge, Chief Economist, Economic Research Bureau; Acting Deputy Commissioner, The Competition Commission, South Africa
Moderated by Payal Malik, Visiting Professor, ICRIER
4:15 β 4:40 pm:Β Tea Break
4:40 β 5:30 pm: Open Discussion
Moderated by Garima Prakash, Deputy Manager, Public Policy, nasscom and Sudipto Banerjee, Senior Manager, Public Policy, nasscom
Guiding questions:
β What are the approaches for balancing consumer welfare, innovation, and competition concerns in digital markets?
β Are there specific gaps in the existing Indian competition law regime to deal with competition concerns in digital markets?
β If yes, what is the recommended approach to plug the gaps and why? Does it merit additional amendments under the existing law, or is a new law necessary/ desirable to introduce ex-ante obligations?
β If the latter, how should the obligations and associated thresholds for application be designed?
β Would there be a need for institutional realignment or capacity building within the government/regulator to monitor implementation and compliance?
β Should India be guided by global paradigms (established and emerging) for regulation of competition in digital markets or devise its own regulatory architecture?
5:30 β 5:37 pm: Discussion Synthesis by Shiva Kanwar, Research Associate, ICRIER
5:37 β 5:40 pm: Vote of Thanks by Sudipto Banerjee, Senior Manager, Public Policy, nasscom
27 Feb, 2024