12-June-2024
English
In June 2024, the OECD will hold a roundtable that will discuss the interplay between industrial and competition policy and explore the potential role of competition authorities in the design, development and/or implementation of industrial policy. This page contains all related materials.
10-June-2024
English
In June 2024, the OECD will hold a roundtable on Monopolisation, Moat building and Entrenchment Strategies discussing economic moats and entrenchment, their relationship with market power, and the importance of economic moats and entrenchment tactics to modern monopolisation strategies.
10-June-2024
English
In June 2024, the OECD hold a Roundtable on Competition and Regulation in Professional Services. The Roundtable will explore the policy debate about professional regulation and occupational licensing, focusing on the competition authorities’ advocacy activities in this area and on the impact of regulatory barriers and of reforms.
24-April-2024
English
In June 2024, the OECD will hold a roundtable on "The Intersection between Competition and Data Privacy Policy", which will discuss the interface between these two policy areas in digital markets and the implications for regulators.
6-March-2024
English
In 2023 the OECD held a roundtable on algorithmic competition to look at the role of algorithms on competition and what harms they may pose, with regards to both coordinated conduct and unilateral conduct. In 2024, the topic is again explored during the OECD Competition Open Day.
6-December-2023
English
Out of market efficiencies affect consumers or other economic agents in different markets from those in which anticompetitive effects are alleged to occur in the context of a merger, an anticompetitive conduct, or an agreement. This OECD roundtable discussed whether competition authorities should balance the impact on consumers that are directly harmed with beneficial effects that are not specific to the market under consideration.
6-December-2023
English
The phenomenon of serial acquisitions has spurred debate around consolidation risks and the potential need for increased scrutiny over such transactions. Despite this, it appears that few jurisdictions’ merger regimes explicitly address them. The OECD roundtable on serial acquisitions and industry roll-ups aimed to shed light on the magnitude of this issue, potential for competitive harms and whether there is an enforcement gap.
5-December-2023
English
In June 2023 the OECD held a discussion on the relationship between competition and innovation. In December 2023 a second discussion explored how competition authorities incorporate innovation as part of their assessment in merger review and enforcement investigations.
4-December-2023
English
In December 2023 the OECD held a roundtable to discuss competition law and the professional sports sector, and specific features of this industry that may raise challenges for competition authorities. A recent increase in this issue by competition authorities worldwide suggests that it is timely to revisit the topic. The roundtable benefited from a panel of invited experts and from a Background Note from the Secretariat.
8-November-2023
English
The increasing prominence of the digital economy has been requiring competition authorities to devote more and more of their time to intellectual property-intensive and high technology industries. This page contains recent work on the digital economy and competition.