10th EDITION OF WINTER SCHOOL ON ECONOMICS OF COMPETITION LAW

We are delighted to announce the 10th edition of the Winter School on Economics of Competition Law scheduled from November 5th, 2025 to November 9th, 2025. It is a 20-hour training programme, spread over five days, with four-hour sessions each day. Led by globally renowned speakers, the sessions of the winter school have been carefully curated to forward discourse on the application of economic tools and analysis in competition law cases. It aims to provide the participants with an understanding of the increasingly important role that economics plays in understanding the markets and assessing the violation of competition law. It strongly focusses on practical examples and direct application of the underlying economic theories and techniques. The themes of the sessions are –

Fundamentals of Economics for Competition Law and Regulation
Understanding Market Failures
Data as a Competitive Weapon: Unpacking the Abuse of Market Dominance
Learning from EU’s DMA Implementation and UK’s DMCC
The Welfare Costs of Anti-competitive Agreements: Analyzing Consumer Harm

Regulating Algorithmic Cartels: Challenges and Best Practices
Extraterritorial Reach of Antitrust Laws: Is the Globalization of Enforcement Working?
Economic Efficiencies vs. Anti-competitive Concerns in M&A: Striking the Right Balance
The Gig Economy: A New Frontier for Competition Law
Green Competition: Navigating the Intersection of Sustainability and Antitrust Law

WHY JOIN WINTER SCHOOL?

Economics actuates Competition Law and Regulatory Scenario

Markets are becoming increasingly global and the approaches to regulate them more economics based. Modern competition law differs from traditional competition law in that it now reflects the dominance of the economic model of analysing the market structures and behaviour. Competition economics assumes importance as regulatory and competition authorities have moved to adopt more economics based approaches in analysing business practices and determining anti-competitive behaviour. Even the current policy formulation and consultation takes into account market dynamics and thus critical to understand these nuances to help better understand the broader picture. Competition law and policy is sector neutral and thus a better understanding of competition economics equips participants with tools to analyse interplay between complex issues related to competition in all the sectors of economy.

Global Relevance with Local Application

The knowledge acquired through this Winter School will be relevant regardless of the jurisdiction in which you work. The themes of the sessions cover evolving jurisprudence. Case studies, decisions and approaches from the US, EU and other developed as well as developing countries will be discussed within a common analytical framework strongly based on economic theory. Contemporary issues related to importance of economic evidence in competition law, Economic tools and analysis in cartels, vertical agreements, abuse of dominance and Mergers & Acquisitions, and use of consumer surveys in competition case analysis, etc. will be analysed in an informed manner.

SPEAKERS IN THE WINTER SCHOOL

Frederic Jenny

Chairman, OECD Competition Committee

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Pradeep S Mehta

Secretary General, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)

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SCHEDULE

Recording of all the sessions would be made available to the participants

S.No.	Date & Time (IST)	Session Title
Wednesday, 5th Nov, 2025 - Acquiring Fundamentals
1	2.00 – 4.00 pm	Fundamentals of Economics for Competition Law and Regulation
2	4.30 – 6.30 pm	Understanding Market Failures
Thursday, 6th Nov, 2025 - Abuse of Dominance & Digital Markets
3	2.00 – 4.00 pm	Data as a Competitive Weapon: Unpacking the Abuse of Market Dominance
4	4.30 – 6.30 pm	Learning from EU’s DMA Implementation and UK’s DMCC
Friday, 7th Nov, 2025 - Anti-Competitive Agreements and Algorithms
5	2.00 – 4.00 pm	The Welfare Costs of Anti-competitive Agreements: Analyzing Consumer Harm
6	4.30 – 6.30 pm	Regulating Algorithmic Cartels: Challenges and Best Practices
Saturday, 8th Nov, 2025 - M&A and Cross-Border Enforcement
7	2.00 – 4.00 pm	Extraterritorial Reach of Antitrust Laws: Is the Globalization of Enforcement Working?
8	4.30 – 6.30 pm	Economic Efficiencies vs. Anti-competitive Concerns in M&A: Striking the Right Balance
Sunday, 9th Nov, 2025 - Adapting Competition Policy
9	2.00 – 4.00 pm	The Gig Economy: A New Frontier for Competition Law
10	4.30 – 6.30 pm	Green Competition: Navigating the Intersection of Sustainability and Antitrust Law

HOW IT BENEFITS YOU?

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 Central and State Governments

The course can prove beneficial for them and help them in understanding the issues related to economic policy, investment policy and market development and competition policy in India and best international approaches to effectively achieve policy objectives.

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.

FEES

Will be announced Soon

PARTICIPANTS FROM PAST WINTER SCHOOLS

The previous winter schools have seen an influx of participation from foreign competition authorities, tier-1 law firms, corporate sector, academicians, economists and legal practitioners. Following is the list of entities, from where the participants have taken benefit of this course:

Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., New Delhi

AZB & Partners, New Delhi

Amity University, Noida

Ansal University, Gurugram

Competition Commission of India

Competition Commission Mauritius

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Christ University, Bangalore

CUTS International

Econ One Research, New Delhi

Fair Competition Commission, Tanzania

Fair Competition Commission, Jamaica

Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission, Nigeria

Gono Bishwabidyalay, Bangladesh

Gujarat National Law University

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

J.Sagar Associates, New Delhi

Malaysian Competition Commission, Malaysia

Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour, Samoa

Ministry of Commerce, Industries, Labour and Immigration (Consumer Affairs and Price Control Division), Solomon Islands

Nathan Economic Consulting, New Delhi

National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad

National Law University, Jodhpur

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bengaluru

Nishith Desai Associates, New Delhi

PNG Independent Consumer and Competition Commission, Papua New Guinea

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Punjab

Saint Gobain, New Delhi

SASTRA Deemed University, Chennai

SEBI, Mumbai

The Commonwealth Secretariat, London

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata

TMT Law Practice, New Delhi

Trilegal, New Delhi

University of Delhi

Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd, New Delhi

Jubilant generics limited, Noida

Veritas Legal, Mumbai

L & L Patners, New Delhi

ITC

DLF

Competition Commission of Mauritius

General Authority for Competition, Saudi Arabia

SPEAKERS IN THE PAST WINTER SCHOOLS

MEET THE PAST SPEAKERS

Trainers have diverse experience working in academic, regulatory and consultancy setup to explain the underlying economic theories
and tools in lecture, case studies and simulation exercises format to bring the concepts to life.

Frederic Jenny

Chairman, OECD Competition Committee

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Marek Martyniszyn

Professor of Competition Law & Policy
Queen’s University Belfast

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Navneet Sharma

Director General, CIRC Competition Law and Market Regulation

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Pradeep S Mehta

Secretary General, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)

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Payal Malik

Former Advisor and Head, Economics Division, Competition Commission of India

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Professor Payal Malik is an economist specializing in competition law/antitrust, regulation, and public policy. Most recently she was Economic Advisor and Head of the Economics Division at the Competition Commission of India (CCI), a position she held for ten years between 2012-2023. In these roles, she has advised CCI on the economics of competition law across an expansive range of markets; interfaced with sector regulators, government, industry, legal and the international competition community; led case teams on competition assessment of M&As and antitrust enforcement matters; and advised the Commission on judicial review of cases before the appellate tribunal and the Supreme Court of India. Professor Malik has considerable experience in the economics of digital and ecommerce markets. Notably, she was the Convener of the Working Group on New Age Economy and Bigdata constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (GoI), for the competition law review committee (CLRC). She was also nominated as a member of the task force of the GoI formulating the ecommerce policy of India and member of a sub-group of the Committee on Digital Competition law (CDCL), devising an ex-ante regulatory mechanism for digital markets through a separate legislation. Additionally, Prof Malik has led several Market Studies of the Commission including in the e-commerce, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, institutional investment, and entertainment sectors. She has interfaced with pharmaceutical, telecom, and coal ministries of the GoI to develop competition compliant policies and legislations guided by the Commission’s Market Studies. Formerly, she has been a visiting Senior Research Fellow LIRNEasia and Senior Consultant, NCAER, Delhi. Her professional collaborations have been with OECD, Orbicom, IDEI, University of Toulouse, Technical University, Delft, Netherlands, University of Québec at Montreal, CEPR, JRC, European Commission, IPTS Seville, ICEGEC, Hungary, Department of Information Technology, TRAI, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Planning Commission of India, CSO, India, WSP-SA, World Bank and AFD, Paris. She has several years of research and economic consulting experience in network Industries such as power and telecommunication, ICTs, Innovation systems, and Infrastructure. She was on the team that drafted the Electricity Act of India ushering competition into the sector.