Using Competition Law and Economics To Enhance Your International Dispute Resolution Toolkit

Competition Law and Economics provide a valuable framework for parties involved in all manner of international disputes. This session will provide substantive examples of techniques presented by leading competition barristers, economists, and solicitors.

Guests will gain an understanding of how a competition framework can help:

• Define the markets and trade affected by disputed government interventions;

• Disentangle the effects of a disputed event on a company or price level from other factors changing at the same time;

• Model how markets/prices would have evolved in the counterfactual to a disputed event or government intervention. A coherent counterfactual is the crucial benchmark against which damage can be measured;

• Measure the effects on different levels of a supply chain (i.e. pass-on and lost profit issues);

• Measure the effects of subsidies and tariffs on trade between countries; and/or,

• Measure the present value of future damage (discounting).

Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the session will begin at 9:00 a.m.