Call for papers

Public Law and Economics:

Economic Regulation and Competition Policies
The main subject to be discussed in the next WEA Conference is the current challenges faced by
economic regulation and competition policies 10 years after the beginning of the most recent
worlds economic crises.

In the past decade, companies aimed to compete and/or cooperate with each other in a world where
technologies are changing rapidly, digital economies have emerged, and markets are global in
scope, but free market economy started to face protectionism. Also, they have gradually tried to
recover from the impact of the crisis in a economic scenario of high uncertainty and financial
turbulence. At the same time, governments, sector regulators, competition authorities, and central
banks have been working to minimize the impact of the crisis on the economy, to stabilize the
financial system, and to introduce and amend the regulations and institutions necessary to ensure
that the crisis does not repeat itself.

Public Law and Economics studies the use of economic principles for the analysis of public law,
and can be used to promote choices in policies and regulations that correct market failures, promote
competition and increase gains in a given economy. The interaction between economic principles
and public law is particularly important in a globalized context where new forms of market
organization, the uncertainties of the digital economy, and new scenarios of abuse of economic
power have emerged.

The next WEA Conference therefore aims to bring together renowned specialists in economic
regulation, regulated sectors and competition law to debate those relevant issues. We believe that
the discussions will enable academics and practitioners to: (i) discuss how sector regulators and
competition authorities are interacting post-crises and how the economic analysis of law can help
countries reach better regulation and competition policies; (ii) contribute with practical and
theoretical references on the limits of economic power and forms of state intervention; (iii) deal
with the uncertainties and challenges of the digital economy; (iv) gather relevant case studies and;
(v) identify new trends in Law and Economics that have arisen post-crises.

Main topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

New post-crises trends on sector regulations and public policies

Financial regulation after crises
Legal transplant and legal borrowing
Digital economies and sector regulation
International, supranational and local changes on competition policies
 Competition law and innovation
Competition law in Digital Markets
Economic analysis of cartels
Economic Regulation and Competition in developing countries
Regulatory assessment

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit a full paper to weaconference2017@gmail.com by April 17, 2017.

Complete guidelines for manuscripts can be found

at https://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/conferences/guidelines/

Key dates
Paper submissions: April 17, 2017
Discussion Forum: 15th May to 30th June, 2017

For more information, please visit http://lawandeconomics2017.weaconferences.net/.