Price discrimination in online/digital markets: is it fair, and is there a role for competition intervention?

Date: 16 October 2015

Time: 12:30

Duration: 14:30

Location: Confindustria Bruxelles, Av. de la Joyeuse Entrée 1 – 1040 Bruxelles

Cost: free for antitrustitalia members; €15 for non-members

Organiser: Antitrustitalia

Web Link: http://www.antitrustitalia.it/

Description:

Dr Cristina Caffarra, Vice President and Head of European Competition Practice at Charles River Associates, will give a presentation in English on: “Price discrimination in online/digital markets: is it fair, and is there a role for competition intervention?"

Price discrimination is a concern we thought we left behind in competition policy, but the advent of online and digital technologies has revamped the debate on such practice. Wider access to information on consumers can allow companies to design more refined mechanisms to discriminate prices on the basis of, for example, consumers' geographical location, browsing behaviour, past purchasing history, etc.

Concerns about the use of online price discrimination have been rising in recent years. Differential and personalised pricing has attracted the attention of competition authorities and the Commission has put geographic discrimination and geo-blocking at the centre of its Digital Single Market strategy. Cristina will provide an economist’s perspective on the new drive for enforcement in this area, and discuss merits and risks of differential pricing in online / digital markets.

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