Presentations

• LEAR Competition Festival, September 2022, Keynote Lecture: "The Role of Data Analysis in Cartel Detection" Video
• 2nd CRESSE-JUFE Series of Lectures on Competition Policy, May 2021, Slides for “Tacit Collusion and Competition Policy”
• Association of Competition Economists, November 2020, Keynote Lecture, Slides for “The Role of a Firm’s Internal Pricing Process in Explaining Collusive Practices: Theory and Cases”
• Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE)- Competition Policy Conference, April 2019. Slides for “Competition Law and Pricing Algorithms”
• "FTC Hearing 7: Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Consumer Protection Implications of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics,” November 14, 2018, Remarks Video
• Antitrust in High Speed: Colluding Through Algorithms and Other Technologies, Jan 2018. Remarks Pricing Algorithms with Antitrust Implications
• CEPR Conference on Industrial Organization (Jerusalem), May 2017. Slides for "Practices to be Explained and Policy Guidance to be Provided: Some Work for the Theory of Collusion"
• Día de la Competencia 2016 - Fiscalía Nacional Económica (Santiago). Lecture: "Anti-Cartel Enforcement and Mergers with Coordinated Effects" November 2016. Slides Program Photo
• Norwegian School of Economics - Autumn Conference (Oslo), October 2016. Slides for "The Manager's Dilemma: To Collude or Not to Collude?"
• Apoyo Consultoria - Annual Event of Competition (Lima), August 2016. Program Slides for "Finding and Punishing Cartels: The Role of Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement"
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - CPLG Seminar on Leniency Programs for the Repression of Anticompetitive Conduct (Lima), August 2016. Slides for "Leniency Programs and Customer Damages in the Fight Against Cartels"
• Bertha C. and Roy E. Leigh Distinguished Lecture in Economics, Washington State University, March 2016.
• Legal and Illegal Cartels Conference (Mannheim - ZEW), December 2015. Slides for "How Does Illegality and Enforcement Constrain Collusion?"
• Pre-BRICS International Competition Conference (Durban), November 2015. Slides for "Behavioral Screening" Slides for "Collusion and Cartels: Successes and Challenges" University of Kwazulu-Natal Newsletter
• OECD Global Forum on Competition - Serial offenders: Why do some industries seem prone to endemic collusion? (Paris), October 2015. Background Paper Slides
• Extraterritoriality of Antitrust Law in the US and Abroad: A Hot Issue (George Washington U. Law School), September 2015. Opening Remarks Synthesis
• Trends in Regulatory Competition (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and Bullard Falla Ezcurra): "In Search of Cartels", September 2015. Slides Video Announcement
• New Frontiers: Business School Distinguished Lecture Series (Middlesex University): "Collusion - The Hidden Evil in the Marketplace. Are We Winning or Losing the Fight Against Cartels?", May 2015. Slides Announcement
• Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE)- Competition Policy Conference, Keynote Lecture: "The Current State of the Theory of Collusion: Unexplained Phenomena and Unexplored Directions", April 2015. Slides Conference Program Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3
• Chilean Economic Association Meetings (Encuentro Anual Sociedad de Economía de Chile, Santiago), Keynote Lecture: "A Report on Collusion and Cartels: Science, Policy, and the Law", September 2013. Slides
• German Economic Association Meetings (Verein für Socialpolitik, Düsseldorf), Keynote Lecture: “Collusion and Cartels: Recent Policy Successes and Future Legal Challenges”, September 2013. Slides Video
• Deterring EU Competition Law Infringements: Are We Using the Right Sanctions? (Brussels). Lecture: "Optimal Deterrence of Competition Law Infringements". December 2012. Slides Video Interview Coverage at Chillin' Competition
• Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture, University of Florida Levin College of Law. Lecture: "Game-Theoretic Ruminations on Section 1 of the Sherman Act". March 2012. Slides Announcement
• Día de la Competencia 2011 - Fiscalía Nacional Económica (Santiago). Lecture: "Economic Analysis and the Fight Against Cartels: Developing an Effective Screening Program". October 2011. Slides Program
• Conference on Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Leniency Programs (Bergen), August 2011. Lecture: "The Battle Against Hard Core Cartels: Measurement and Incentive Challenges" Slides
• Avances en Políticas y Legislación Pro Competencia (Santiago), December 2010. Lecture: "Leniency Programs: Past Experiences and Future Challenges" Slides " Program
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar Mini-Course: "Game Theory" (U. of Cincinnati), October 2010. Slides
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Summer School in Economics (Madrid), June 2010. Course on Collusion and Cartels: Brochure
• Justus-Liebig-Universtät Giessen: "Lectures on Cartels" (Germany), January 2010. Giessener Anzeiger Photo
• Economic Developments in European Competition Policy (Brussels), December 2009. Lecture: "Screening for Cartels: The Next Step in Enforcement" Slides
• 3rd Conference on the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy: "Competition Policy and Innovation: Where Do We Stand?" (Vienna), October 2009. Keynote Lecture: "Communication and Monitoring in Cartels: Explaining the Stability of the Citric Acid, Lysine, and Vitamins Cartels" Slides
• 3rd Annual Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal and Mandela Institute Conference on Competition Law, Economics and Policy (Pretoria), September 2009. Lecture: "Screening for Cartels at Public Procurement Auctions" Slides
• European Summer School and Conference in Competition & Regulation (Crete), July 2009. Conference Policy Lecture: "Investigating the Investigators: What Does a Competition Authority Maximize?" Photo
• Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (U. of Amsterdam) Fifth Annual Competition & Regulation Meeting - To Enforce and Comply: Incentives inside Corporations and Agencies (Amsterdam), March 2009. Keynote Lecture: "Evaluating and Understanding a Competition Authority" Slides Photo
• First Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference (Washington, D.C.), November 2008.
• 15th WZB Conference on Markets and Politics and the 2nd Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (RNIC): "Deterrence in Competition Policy" (Berlin), October 2008. Keynote Lecture: "Antitrust Enforcement and Corporate Leniency Programs" Slides
• European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Meetings (Valencia), September 2007.
• European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (Gerzensee, Switzerland), July 2007. Slides
• 1st Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy: Modern Approaches in Competition Policy (Mannheim, Germany), May 2007. Keynote Lecture: "The Design, Practice, and Performance of Corporate Leniency Programs" Slides Poster
• European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Meetings (Amsterdam), August 2006. Keynote Lecture: "Anatomy of a Cartel Price Path" Slides Poster
• Towards an Effective Implementation of New Competition Policy (Tokyo), January 2006. Slides Paper Newspaper article (NIKKEI)
• Csef-Igier Symposium on Economics and Institutions (Capri)- June/July 2005. Keynote Lecture: "The Collusion Chasm: Reducing the Gap Between Antitrust Practice and Industrial Organization Theory" Slides