Student Challenge Quadriptych – “Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation”

July 2019

CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents:

CPI Europe Column: Student Challenge Quadriptych – “Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation”

Competition Policy International is pleased to present our readers with this Special Edition of the Europe Column:

Student Challenge Quadriptych – “Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation”

Following DG Competition’s conference on January 17, 2019 “Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation,” the European Commission organized a Student Challenge to “encourages university students with an interest in competition policy and enforcement to bring their views to the main topics of the Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation conference.”

The students submitted 250-word abstracts related to one of the Conference’s panel discussions. The four panel categories were as follows:

1. Competition, data, privacy, and artificial intelligence;
2. Digital platforms’ market power;
3. Competing with data – a business perspective;
4. Preserving digital innovation through competition policy.

CPI has asked the winner from each panel to expand on her/his short abstract submission for this special “Quadriptych” edition of the CPI Europe Column.

The four winners (in order of the panels) are: Guillaume Thébaudin (Télécom ParisTech), Rossi Abi-Rafeh (Toulouse School of Economics