Economics Partners is a firm of economic and finance specialists. From our base in Hong Kong, we serve clients across the Asia-Pacific region. Founded in 2018, we are the first specialist economic consulting firm dedicated to the Asia-Pacific region.
We work with clients in all areas of law where economic and finance questions matter to the outcome. Our practices areas include competition, regulation of industries, telecommunications and energy markets, arbitration, and economic policy. We provide independent expert reports and act as expert witnesses in front of regulatory authorities, courts, and tribunals. We regularly work behind the scenes with clients and law firms to craft strategic approaches to legal and regulatory issues, and to prepare submissions to regulators and arbitrators. We assist governments and multilateral organizations with policy and legal frameworks.

The Winter School will help practitioners address questions such as: what is meant by dominance? What economic benefits is competition supposed to produce? How does one define the relevant product and geographical market? Some of the topics include:

Regulating Markets through Competition Law & Policy
Market Structures and Game Theory
Introduction to Econometrics
Economics of Horizontal Agreements
Exclusionary Behavior and Vertical Agreements
Delineating Relevant Market and Measurements of Market Power
Dominant Position and Exclutionary and Exploitative Practices
Economics of Mergers & Merger Simulation
Estimation of Antitrust Damages
Economics of Platform Markets
Interface between Intellectual Property, Innovation and Competition Law

a. Legal Practitioners, Competition Lawyers and Law Firms
Designed especially for lawyers, the course tends to explain the economics in a language the lawyers can understand. From a legal practitioner’s perspective, it is vital to understand and assess the relevance and rigour of the economic analysis so as formulate a strategy regarding specific case. This could include identifying whether the data employed and empirical approach in economic analysis is appropriate, and ascertaining the consistency of assumptions used in economic models with characteristics of industry/sector. The economic concepts and methodical techniques that lawyers working in mergers and competition cases need to know will also be discussed.

b. In-house Counsels at Corporate Entity
This course will help the corporates to understand the economics of competition law in a better way, which will help them to device policies to better their services and products in order to have a better footing in the market while in compliance with law.

c. Competition Authorities and Regulatory Affairs Officials
They will be able to better understand the competition economics and will be well equipped to deal with the competition cases. The applied concepts to be discussed during Winter School will help regulatory officials devise better regulatory approaches in their respective sectors so as to develop a competitive framework.

d. Economic Consultancies
Practitioners working with economic consultancies and economists will get a chance to learn the contemporary literature and will also learn from the top practitioner’s ways to identify and apply best economic model suited to a specific industry.

e. Representatives from Government and International Organisations
The course can prove beneficial for them and help them in understanding the issues related to competition law and policy in India and best international approaches to effectively deal with such situations.

f. Researchers in area of Law, Economics, and Management
The course will teach them the economics behind various tenets of competition law and provide them opportunities to interact with the pioneers in this field. This will equip them with better legal and economic tools to analyse contemporary debates in an informed manner.