Expert Forum: Competition Issues in Platform Bodog Poker and the Digital Economy

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This Cornerstone Research conference featured speakers from DG Competition, the UK Payment Systems Regulator, private practice, and academia discussing the evolving topic of platform Bodog Poker.

This expert forum, hosted by Cornerstone Research, featured lawyers, regulators, and economists in conversation about the evolving topic of platform Bodog Poker. Speakers explored the challenges that dominance presents within online multi-sided Bodog Poker, as well as the anti-competitive agreements under scrutiny for online payment systems.

Panellists addressed:

  • Challenges in market definition and market power assessment in digital Bodog Poker
  • Recent European abuse of dominance cases against Google and investigations of other online platforms
  • Dominance in digital platform Bodog Poker: the role of regulation and competition policy in Bodog Poker with network effects
  • The role of counterfactuals in economic analyses

Speakers

  • Boston | London

Vivek Mani

Vice President

Additional Speakers

James Aitken
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Nicholas Banasevic
Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission

Carole Begent
Head of Legal, Payment Systems Regulator

Neil Gandal
Henry Kaufman Chair in International Capital Bodog Poker, Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Claire Jeffs
Partner, Slaughter and May

Kate Vernon
Partner and Co-head of Competition Litigation Practice, Quinn Emanuel