Workshops Consumers and Competition

The Hague, workshop December 2005

On December 15, workshop policy papers will be presented on 'Consumer Choices and Welfare Appraisals in the Liberalized Electricity Market and Telecommunications Market'. These policy papers will be commented upon by academics discussants and by a discussant from the consumer organization ('De Consumentenbond').

The workshop will be in cooperation with the 'Kenniscentrum voor Ordeningsvraagstukken' (Ministry of Economic Affairs)
Language is Dutch.
> Click here for the preliminary program.

An invitation with the definitive program and venue will soon be sent to Dutch speaking ENCORE-contacts.

Rotterdam, workshop February 2005

On February 23, there will be an ENCORE-workshop on 'Consumer Behaviour and the Successes and Failures of Market Liberalization/Competition' at the Faculty of Economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Chairman Maarten Janssen (EUR) has invited several outstanding IO-researchers to present a paper. Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado), Michael Waldman (Cornell University) and Jose Luis Moraga (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) have already accepted the invitation. The papers will be discussed by academics and policy makers. The workshop program will be published on the ENCORE website in December.

Annual Conference 2006

The ENCORE Annual Conference will be the concluding event of our series of meetings and discussions on 'Consumers and Competition' and will take place in The Hague on April 13, 2006. One of the key note speakers will be Michael Waterson (see below), who has recently published some authorative papers on the conference topic.

Our next newsletter will contain more information on the program.

Visiting: Michael Waterson

Michael Waterson is an ENCORE-visitor on April 12, 2006. He will visit a number of Ministries in The Hague to discuss the policy issues on 'Consumers and Competition'.

ENCORE Brainstorms

In the coming months, ENCORE will organize brainstorm sessions in which ENCORE Fellows and policy makers will discuss urgent policy and competition issues. The first ENCORE brainstorm will take place at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in December and will cover problems in the telecommunications sector. In 2006, ENCORE will organize more brainstorm sessions and brown bag meeting (see item ENCORE in 2006 and 2007).

Seminar

In November or December, the final ENCORE/IO seminar will take place in Amsterdam. More information will be published on the ENCORE-website, as soon as the speaker and paper become available.

EARIE2006

From 25-27 August 2006, the University of Amsterdam will be the host of the 2006 EARIE Annual Conference. ENCORE is one of the sponsors of this event, which will feature 350-400 high-quality papers in the field of industrial organization. Next to the various parallel session the conference features two academic plenary sessions with Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) and Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins University), a plenary session featuring EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, and a plenary round-table discussion with Editors of top-IO journals discussing current trends in IO publishing. At the conference, four Young Economists Essay Awards are presented to exceptionally innovative and high level papers by young researchers.

For more information about the EARIE2006 conference:
> www.earie2006.org

 
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New Academic Director

As of January 2006, ENCORE will have a new Academic Director: Jeroen Hinloopen will step down and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics) takes over his position.
We thank Jeroen for the effort, energy, creativity and enthusiasm which he has put into building and shaping ENCORE into today's successful network. As a founding father of ENCORE, he can be proud of what he has achieved in a relatively short period of time. Jeroen remains active as an ENCORE fellow and advisor.

ENCORE- guest Jakob Rüggeberg

Jakob Rüggeberg, winner of the ENCORE Masters' Thesis Prize 2003-2004, is an ENCORE-guest from November 2005 until February 2006.
During his stay at the Faculty of Economics, he will work on his research project Damage Actions for Breach of The Community Competition Rules' (see item Ongoing Research Activities).

Project Coordinator EARIE2006: Wouter Kleijheeg

Wouter Kleijheeg has become the coordinator of the EARIE2006 annual conference. Wouter previously worked for the Faculty of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In December 2005, he will also assist Hagar Roijackers with the ENCORE-activities.

 
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Traineeship

The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science currently has placed a traineeship on the ENCORE website.
> Click here to view the text (in Dutch).

Job opportunities on the Fellows Forum

(1) TILEC (University of Tilburg)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Economics, with a focus on “Law and Economics / Institutional Economics” or “Industrial Organization”
For more information, > click here

(2) NMa - Dutch Competition Authority
Chief Economist
More information (in Dutch), > click here

 
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Focus on 2006 and 2007

In 2006 and 2007, ENCORE will organize various new, policy related activities, such as: brown bag meetings and brainstorms, Competition & Regulation seminars and IO Education Days for students and for IO teachers.

The next ENCORE Once More will contain detailed information about these new activities.

ENCORE continues to organize successful ENCORE-activities such as the workshops, council meetings, conferences, summer schools and academic seminars (in cooperation with other universities).

Ongoing Research Activities
> Click on link for more information

 
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Organization
ENCORE is an open platform that operates within the broad sphere of Industrial Organization, with an emphasis on issues of competition and regulation. ENCORE is located at the University of Amsterdam. More information can be found on www.encore.nl/about.

ENCORE Once More
This e-mail newsletter aims to inform about ENCORE-activities and replaces the many separate e-mail invitations to participate in ENCORE-events. If you wish to unsubscribe, please send us an e-mail with 'unsubscribe' in the header.

 
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