HALF – DAY 1
Brief welcome message and Introduction to the Master Class.
Delegates to introduce themselves and state their objectives.
Session 1 – Telecommunications, Media & Technology – A Sector in Transition
A review of the tools used to perform regulation, focusing on the socio-economic reasons for regulatory regimes and their governance and stakeholder engagement aspects.
- Key Drivers of any Sector (incl. Regulation & Industry)
- From the erstwhile POTS Telecoms to today’s TMT/Internet Sector
- TMT – A Sector in Rapid Transition
- Regulatory Challenges & Trends with such Rapid Transition
- Sector-Specific vs. Horizontal Regulation (with the new TMT)
- Key Emerging Areas of TMT/Internet Economic Regulation
- Summary
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Introduction to the Law and Economics of Regulation
A review of the tools used to perform regulation, focusing on the socio-economic reasons for regulatory regimes and their governance and stakeholder engagement aspects.
- The Law of Regulation: introducing the legal bases and, amongst others, Duties, Functions, Powers and Factors
- What kinds of laws do regulators do (International, Administrative & Public law, Broadcasting laws, Content Laws, Consumer law, Competition law, etc.)?
- The Economics of Regulation: economic ideas and how they apply to Regulation
- Markets – and the market as the best regulator
- Demand, supply, competition, monopolies and market power
- Using economics and law to interpret Regulatory duties
- Markets, Law, Regulation and beyond
- Summary
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