The BSE intensive course on Quantitative Methods for Competition Analysis provides participants (economists, lawyers, and practitioners working for firms or agencies) with a thorough understanding of recent empirical methods to measure market power and competition, with applications to market definition, merger analysis, and damages from anticompetitive conduct.

A team of leading academics and practitioners will walk you through the latest methods for competition cases analysis

The program's faculty includes some of the leading academic economists in the area of industrial organization and competition policy, and practitioners with extensive experience in quantitative methods for competition cases.

After successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• Review established and recent quantitative methods for competition analysis, with a proper balance between techniques and interpretation also accessible to non-economists
• Learn about the practical considerations to apply techniques, based on the lessons from various recent cases where quantitative techniques have been applied
• Learn to interpret and critically evaluate the empirical results from different approaches
• Develop a good common sense of the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches, and the circumstances under which they are (not) suitable
• Acquire a thorough understanding of the data requirements for applying various techniques
• Learn how to work with big datasets and use quantitative techniques to analyze big data

Review actual cases and learn to apply the concepts in practice with hands-on sessions

Three practical sessions (plus an introductory session to review basic Stata commands for data management and estimation) will illustrate how to implement the econometric techniques with standard software (Stata), covering demand estimation, merger simulation, and treatment effects.

Every participant taking this course will receive a free STATA license several days before the start of the course.

Chatham House Rule

In order to promote a frank, open and constructive discussion, this course will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule, which states that "participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed."