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Consumers and Competition
Two ENCORE-workshop and the Annual Conference dealt with issues on 'Consumers and Competition'.
- Annual Conference 13 April 2006: click here for more information
- Workshop 23 Feb 2006: click here for draft papers and presentations
- Workshop 19 Dec 2005: click here for the presentations
ENCORE Once More
- Click here for the December 2007 online newsletter
- Click here for the September 2007 online newsletter
- Click here for the June 2007 online newsletter
- Click here for the February 2007 online newsletter
- Click here for the February 2006 online newsletter
- Click here for the November/December 2005 online newsletter.
Accepted bids for research on Experiments for Antitrust Policies
After sending the fellows a call for papers regarding the above topic, ENCORE received lots of bids for research. The accepted research topics are:
- An overview of experimental results on (tacit) collusion, by Haan, M., Schoonbeek, L. and Winkel, B. M.
- Transparancy and market performance; experimental evidence , by Potters, J.
- Price ceilings, by Normann, H.-T. and Engelmann, D.
- Experiments on abuse of a dominant position, by Van Damme, E., Hancher, L., Larouche, P. and Müller, W.
- Experiments on changes in market structure and their effect on performance - a critical review, by Götte, L. and Schmutzler, A.
These research topics will come together in a book, which will be edited by Jeroen Hinloopen and Hans Theo Normann. The book will be published by Cambridge University Press.
'Experiments for Antitrust Policies' brings together a number of papers that each deal with a specific aspect of antitrust policies. The contributions are grouped in three distinct parts each dealing with one of the three pilars of antitrust: (tacit) collusion, (abuse of) dominance, and merger control. Each part begins with an overview chapter summerizing the related experimental research, followed by a number of chapters that discuss each a specific antitrust experiment.
ENCORE organized a two-day workshop on 18 and 19 March 2005 in Amsterdam during which the several papers were presented and discussed. This workshop served as a first refereeing round towards the edited volume.
Click here for more information about the workshop
ENCORE UPDATE
ENCORE introduces its first tangible newsletter: the ENCORE UPDATE. The first edition was launched on the ENCORE annual conference on 14 April 2005.
ENCORE UPDATE 1 (Apr. 2005) (pdf, Dutch)
ENCORE UPDATE 2 (Nov. 2005) (pdf, Dutch)
ESB Issue: Ten years of competition and regulation policy in The Netherlands
ESB (Economic Statistical Journal) in cooperation with ENCORE has launched a journal dedicated to Dutch competition and regulation policy.
A great deal of competition and regulation operations seem to be a succes (telecom), while other operations have failed (railways). Time to draw up the balance. This issue looks back on the role of policy makers and policy advisors in the last decade. What lessons can be learned?
