Davis Polk partners Arthur Burke and Howard Shelanski will be among the speakers at the Jevons Institute 2018 Colloquium: Future Perspectives on Media Markets: Competition, pluralism and regulatory oversight. Burke will speak on “The Consolidation Role of Competition Policy, Merger Control, Public Interest Tests” roundtable. Topics discussed will include:

  • Merger control and consolidation in media markets in particular in relation to newspapers and broadcasting (with references to cases in the US and Europe).
  • Should we take into account wider public interests (e.g. media plurality) and how do we do that if it is mandated?
  • Has the rise of online media platforms (including ones that focus on user-generated content) affected the analysis of competition or public interests?
  • Mergers in old media and the online constraint

Shelanski will present on the “Economics of Competition and Welfare Analysis in Media Markets” roundtable. Topics discussed will include:

  • Analyzing welfare in relation to content
  • Welfare in markets where main currency is time/attention
  • Role of advertising
  • Content creation and free content as a “bait”
  • Role of multi-homing

The program will be held on May 22, 2018, in Rome.

For more information, please visit the event website.

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