This year CompNet celebrates its 10th Annual Conference, together with Banque de France as co-host, which will (hopefully) take place in Paris. The topic of the conference is "Firm-dynamics, factors reallocation and organization of production in the context of COVID-19"

The COVID-19 has introduced new challenges for firms. Since the inception of the pandemic, firms have had to adapt to the different phases of the health crisis and have been facing a rare degree of high uncertainty regarding business conditions. Different shocks, on the supply and demand sides, impacted activity due to various degrees of lockdowns and restrictions in the home and foreign economies. These restrictions forced firms to re-organize production, due to potential bottlenecks in local or global value chains, a wider use of work from home, and possible risks to the continuation of business due to financial risk. On the demand side, restrictions to economic and social activity, and the great uncertainty about future business conditions at home and abroad, have also possibly modified the returns on new investments. These shocks affected the production of goods and services, with a huge degree of heterogeneity across different sectors.

Please find the official Call for Papers here. Submissions to be sent please to secretariat@comp-net.org

Digital technologies and business models drive productivity growth and are key to job creation and prosperity. However, they can also create “winner takes most” dynamics, market concentration and rising productivity gaps across firms. How do these developments affect market dynamics and competition in interconnected economies and what role can modern industrial policy play to promote structural change while maintaining a “level playing field” to ensure fair competition in global markets? The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have an accelerating effect on these already ongoing structural changes. Against this background, government action becomes even more important and policy dialogue around these topics is more timely than ever.

AGENDA

The Chairman Filippo di Mauro introduced the session „ Market power, digital transformation and the COVID-19 catalys”

See here his presentation 

More information on the conference can be found here