On April 17, the BRICS Competition Centre together with the Joint Department with the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Faculty of Law, HSE University held a roundtable entitled "What is the Demand for Competition Policy Today?" The event brought together academics and leading experts in antitrust law from the HSE University and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Competition law played a significant role in balancing the contradictions of socio-economic development at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Under the conditions of uncertainty caused by large-scale social changes, antitrust policy has always come to the forefront of reforms. In post-war Europe, in Russia during the transition to a market economy, in China with the beginning of the opening-up policy, in South Africa after the fall of the apartheid regime, the adoption of antitrust laws helped the economic system to make a breakthrough. Also, the role of competition law is undeniable in creating a favorable environment for the promotion of innovation.
In the current situation with the fragmentation of the global economy, the challenges of digitalization, which require flexibility and fundamentally new approaches from regulators to analyze the market environment, as well as geopolitical tensions and sanctions pressure on our country, the question arises about the importance of competition policy. Is there a place for it in the new reality, how to rethink the role of antimonopoly regulation in conditions of constant turbulence and where are its limits?
Moderator:
- Nelli Galimkhanova, Head of the Joint Department with the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Faculty of Law, HSE University
Speakers:
- Alexey Ivanov, Director of the International BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre;
- Svetlana Avdasheva, Prof., Faculty of Economic Sciences, HSE University.
Commentators:
- Andrey Tsyganov, Leading Research Associate of Chair for Competition and Industrial Policy of the Department of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
- Andrey Shastitko, Head of Chair for Competition and Industrial Policy of the Department of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of the Centre for competition and economic regulation studies of the Russian presidential Academy of national economy and public administration (Ranepa);
- Denis Gavrilov, Deputy Head of the Competition law branch of Kutafin Moscow State Law University;
- Irina Filatova, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Member of the State Duma Committee on Protection of Competition.