The CCLE is proud to present a digital webinar series hosted on MS Teams. Each session we will tackle a different aspect of digital markets that highlight competition related issues.
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If there are any issues with registration, please contact Katherine Stainton at 24707058@sun.ac.za
Upcoming Lectures
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Introduction: Overview of competition policy in digital platforms, connecting multiple groups for transactions. Platform Types: Discusses various digital platforms like e-commerce, highlighting their network effects and competitive
Event Details
- Introduction: Overview of competition policy in digital platforms, connecting multiple groups for transactions.
- Platform Types: Discusses various digital platforms like e-commerce, highlighting their network effects and competitive implications.
- Policy Impact: Examines global responses by competition authorities to digital platforms, with a focus on merger reviews and dominance abuses.
- Network Effects: Explains how reinforcing cycles limit competition, with variations in network effects across different platform types.
- Case Studies & Outlook: Concludes with future implications for digital platforms in South Africa, including sharpened merger reviews and addressing abuses of dominance.
Speaker
Professor Willem Boshoff
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm CAT
Location
Microsoft Teams
Organizer
Katherine Stainton24707058@sun.ac.za
Event Details
Recap: Summarizes the focus on digital platforms, network effects, and competitive challenges from the first lecture. Potential Competition: Introduces potential competition, its role in breaking reinforcing cycles,
Event Details
- Recap: Summarizes the focus on digital platforms, network effects, and competitive challenges from the first lecture.
- Potential Competition: Introduces potential competition, its role in breaking reinforcing cycles, and definitions of potential competitors.
- Merger Control: Highlights merger control as a key tool for protecting potential competition, referencing policy efforts in various jurisdictions.
- South African Case: Discusses a South African case involving MIH and WeBuyCars, highlighting competition authority arguments and implications.
- Comparative Analysis: Compares digital merger reviews in the EU and South Africa, discussing challenges in predicting market evolution.
Speaker
Professor Willem Boshoff
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm CAT
Location
Microsoft Teams
Organizer
Katherine Stainton24707058@sun.ac.za
Event Details
Recap: Reviews key points from the first two lectures on digital platforms and competition policy. Exploitative Abuses: Explores exploitative dominance abuses, distinguishing them from exclusionary abuses, with
Event Details
- Recap: Reviews key points from the first two lectures on digital platforms and competition policy.
- Exploitative Abuses: Explores exploitative dominance abuses, distinguishing them from exclusionary abuses, with examples like excessive pricing.
- General Trends: Highlights trends in exploitative abuse cases, including the pharmaceutical industry and responses to Covid-19.
- Digital Trends & User Groups: Examines exploitative abuses in digital markets, focusing on different user groups and concerns like price discrimination.
- Case Studies & Regulatory Responses: Discusses specific cases like Bundeskartellamt/Facebook, illustrating regulatory responses to exploitative practices and challenges in establishing benchmarks. Concludes with South Africa’s approach to price discrimination.
Speaker
Professor Willem Boshoff
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm CAT
Location
Microsoft Teams
Organizer
Katherine Stainton24707058@sun.ac.za