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Review of the MaCCI Annual Conference 2025
On March 20-21, 2025, the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation hosted the 14th MaCCI Annual Conference. Around 130 participants gathered to discuss current questions in research on competition and innovation. This year’s program consisted of two keynote lectures and many sessions on the regulation of digital platforms, market dominance, and competition. Two panels organized by the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht discussed the future application of Article 102 TFEU to exclusionary conduct of dominant firms, and the challenging competitive regulatory environment for meger control, foreign direct investment, and foreign subsidies. In addition, there were two more special session featuring recent investigations by the German Bundeskartellamt, and cases of the European Commission on merger control and state aid, respectively.
On the first conference day, Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (London School of Economics) gave the Heike Schweitzer Keynote Lecture in memory of the former member of the MaCCI Board and the MaCCI Advisory Board. In his talk, Professor Ibáñez Colomo addressed the question whether the Ordoliberal compact is approaching its end with regards to the executive branch of competition law.
As another highlight of the conference, there was a keynote lecture by Nancy Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on the “Economics of Efficiencies in Merger Analysis”. Before Professor Rose’s talk, MaCCI honored Massimo Motta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics) and William Kovacic (The George Washington University), the latter of whom unfortunately could not attend the ceremony in person, for their lasting efforts and selfless commitment to MaCCI by appointing them MaCCI Honorary Fellows.
Please find more information on the 2025 MaCCI Annual on zew.de/macciannual2025.