Monday, 15 May 2017
The Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) in partnership with the Competition Commission of South Africa invite you to the following public lecture:
Standards for Merger Review: Key insights from European Cases
The public lecture will be presented by Prof. Massimo Motta.
About the speaker:
Professor Massimo Motta is Research Professor at ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission's directorate general for competition from September 2013 to August 2016.
His main areas of research are industrial organisation and in particular competition policy, but he has also worked on international trade and multinational firms. His work, widely cited and influential, has been published in leading international economic journals. His book titled Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004) is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust, and is used by teachers, scholars, and practitioners. His new book on Exclusionary Practices (with Chiara Fumagalli and Claudio Calcagno) is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. He has extensive experience in advising competition agencies, including the Competition Commission of South Africa, on cases and policy.
VENUE: CCRED Seminar Room, 1st Floor, 6 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg Click here for map
TIME: 16:00-17:30
RSVP by email to infoccred@uj.ac.za