Asian Institute of International Financial Law
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
HKU Competition Law Lecture Series
Why International Cooperation on Competition Has to be Modernized?
26 February 2025 (Wednesday), 1:00-2:00 PM
Room 824, 8/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
A look at export cartels shows that there are cases where a few powerful players operate globally and centrally set the rules, which then affect the market situation in many jurisdictions. Developments in the digital sector also show us that the largest platforms adopt a global perspective. In both cases, national competition authorities, each overseeing only a small portion of these global markets, have a lot of difficulty bringing cases against these global players. International cooperation on competition law enforcement is weak and based on the hypothesis that national competition authorities bring domestic cases independently of each other. A new set of instruments is needed to allow national competition authorities to cooperate more effectively on global markets.
About the Speaker
Frederic JENNY holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1975), a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966). He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris, Chairman of the OECD Competition Global Forum on Competition, Senior Fellow of the GW Competition and Innovation Lab at The George Washington University. He was previously Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee (1994-2024), Non Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014), Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003). He was Visiting Professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978), Keio University Department of Economics in Japan (1984), University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991), Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Visiting Professor at University College London Law School (2005-2010), Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School (2014, 2017 and 2022) and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program, University of Melbourne (Australia) (2016-2018).
Frederic Jenny has written extensively about trade, competition and economic development and has served as an adviser to many developing countries on competition and trade issues.
Chair: Professor Thomas Cheng, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
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