[Turing-Southampton] Co-investigator needed for interdisciplinary project.... Call for Southampton Turing-sponsored Pilot Projects | Deadline 14 June 2019

[Kohl U.]

<mailto:Turing-Southampton at ecs.soton.ac.uk>Dear all,

We (from Law and Management) are looking for a Computer Science co-investigator for the following project. We are not entirely sure what sort of expertise may be needed but know that current 'Merger Simulation Models' would need reviewing. We are also hoping for the possibility of exploring other data-driven avenues for predicting predatory corporate misbehaviour (market abuse by dominant players). Internal deadline for Pilot Project submission: 14 June


This is the abstract:


Online Monopoly Power: Market Abuse Predictions in Merger Inquiries in the Networked Sector



The growth and innovation of the data sector depends on an open access market that facilitates a diverse industry with robust competition, including from innovative start-ups.  Yet, for online services the market place has rapidly converged towards monopoly players (Big Five)... These firms control the infrastructure of and for network services to such an extent that they can detect, with the help of data analytics, possible competitors early on and surpress or absorb them. The European Commission has facilitated that problematic convergance by allowing mergers in already highly concentrated fields, amongst others based on predictions of unlikely 'harms' that, in some cases, appear to be misjudged within a short amount of time e.g. Google/DoubleClick or Facebook/Whatsapp. Reversing these decisions is significantly harder than not making them in the first place. This project seeks to bring data anlytics/computer science to merger inquiries and competition law, with the view to making merger decisions and market abuse predictions more robust. This pilot project is scalable as it explores the possibility of using data analytics in the implementation of law where that implementation relies on predictions of uncertain future behaviour of actors within a certain field.



and this is where I think we would fit in with the Turing objectives: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/challenges/challenge-shine-light-our-economy<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turing.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Fchallenges%2Fchallenge-shine-light-our-economy&data=01%7C01%7C%7C727a7f41c1974b98b3c708d6e97a21e9%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=rpUQywUMGnPYLl4MKE%2B%2BfQ8GF8m7t7sFJrvN1CtwP9M%3D&reserved=0>



Uta Kohl
Professor of Commercial Law
Southampton Law School
University of Southampton
Highfield, Building 4
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: + 44 23 8059 2444



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