Collusion symposium brings together economic and legal minds
The CCLE hosted an international symposium on imperfect forms of collusion on 12 and 13 January at the STIAS conference venue in Stellenbosch. The participants considered various forms of collusion different from traditional hard-core price-fixing cartels from both an economics, legal and criminological perspective. A session was also committed to discussing how the concept of ‘agreement’ differs between South Africa, Russia, South Korea, the EU and the US. Prof Willem Boshoff, co-director of the CCLE, and Prof Johannes Paha from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, co-organized the two-day event. Invited specialists included Bill Kovacic, John Connor and Maarten Pieter Schinkel. Competition practitioners, including from the South African Competition Commission, also attended. For a complete summary of the event topics and speakers, click here.
Centre hosts first symposium
On 12 and 13 January 2018 die CCLE will host its first symposium, dealing with the law and economics of imperfect forms of collusion. Coordinated behaviour among competitors may take a variety of subtle forms and this symposium seeks to explore various aspects of such behaviour from legal, economics, and sociological perspectives. Click here to view event information