The last academic seminar of this term will be held on November 15, 2023. Prof. Aditya Bhattacharjea will speak to us about Competition law in digital platform markets.
Title: Digital Platform Markets: Economic Principles and Implications for Public Policy
Speaker: Aditya Bhattacharjea, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Delhi
Date: 15 November 2023
Time: 12-1.30pm
Venue: LH 606
Abstract:
This presentation will begin with a brief outline of the main features of digital platform markets, with numerous real-world examples. I shall then give a non-technical introduction to some basic economic principles which explain these features. The main part of the presentation will outline the positive and negative effects of the operation of these platforms on consumers and other businesses, followed by a discussion of how public policy, in the form of regulation and/or competition/antitrust policy, can deal with them.
Bio:
Aditya Bhattacharjea is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, where he taught postgraduate courses in industrial organization and Indian economic development. He served as Head of the Economics Department of the DSE from 2014 to 2018, and was Executive Director of the Department’s research adjunct, the Centre for Development Economics. He earlier taught for many years at St Stephen’s College, Delhi (1980-96), and has been a visiting associate professor at Duke University, USA.
His research interests include competition (antitrust) law, economics, and policy; labour market regulation; and trade policy under imperfect competition. His articles have appeared in leading law and economics journals in India and abroad. Professor Bhattacharjea served as a member of the Expert Group on Trade and Competition Policy, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, in 2002-03. From 2005 to 2010, he was a resource person for the Competition Policy and Government Procurement sessions of the annual WTO Regional Trade Policy Courses for the Asia/Pacific region, conducted at Hong Kong University and then at the National University of Singapore. He recently served on the Competition Law Review Committee which was set up by India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs.