Previous ENCORE activities
2007
1 maart |
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2 maart |
PresentationHandbook 'European Commission Decisions on Competition' |
6 maart |
Presentation ENCORE new employees Ministry of Economic Affairs |
6 maart |
Brainstorm Europees Toezicht op Staatssteun en Nationaal Belang |
15 maart |
Brown Bag met Preston McAfee |
12 april |
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12 april |
Thesis Prizes 2007 |
26 april |
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14-15 juni |
Master Class Advanced Competition Law Enforcement' met Mike Walker |
15 juni |
StudIO Research & Education Day |
18 juni |
Brainstorm Modelling ex-ante Effects of one-way Telecom Regulation |
28 juni |
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9-13 juli |
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12 oktober |
Brainstorm Competition Assessment Toolkit |
1 november |
Workshop Barriers to Private Damage Actions in Europe : Disperse Antitrust Injury and Effective Bundling of Damage Claims |
12 november |
Brown Bag met John Kwoka |
13 november |
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22 november |
Brown Bag met Martijn Han |
7 december |
Second ENCORE Fellows & Associates Meeting |
2006
2-3 November:
Symposium on The Future of Telecoms Regulation
Click here for the video compilation
and online presentations
22 June 2006: Classroom experiments 'leniency programs' for NMa (during the 'economenlunch') by Jeroen Hinloopen and Adriaan Soetevent
24 May 2006: Workshop on 'Network Neutrality' in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, DG Telecom and Energy.
Programme and presentations will not become available
17 May 2006: Presentation and discussion ('Concurrentieforum') at the Ministry of Economic Affairs by Jakob Rüggeberg and Maarten Pieter Schinkel
- Click for Reply to EC Green Paper on Damages Actions
- Research paper will become available online
13 April 2006: Annual conference 'Consumers and Competition'
Visit the conference website to view the program and to download the presentations.
12 April 2006: Visitors program Michael Waterson:
- Lunch seminar at NMa/Dte
- Visit to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports
16 March 2006: Brainstorm for NMa by John Connor
7 March 2006: ENCORE-Brainstorm for OPTA by Martin Peitz and Paul de Bijl
7 March 2006: Seminar on Voice over Internet Protocol at OPTA for OPTA and MinEZ by Martin Peitz and Paul de Bijl
24 February 2006: ENCORE-brainstorm on the revision of Article 82 by Yongmin Chen and Jules Theeuwes for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Dutch Competition Authority. Presentation and report are not available.
23 February 2006: Workshop Consumer Search and Switching Costs.
16 February 2006: Brown Bag meeting on Damage Actions for Breach of the Communicaty Competition Rules: How to Ensure Efficient and Effective Private Enforcement.
Presentation and report are not available.
6 January 2006: ENCORE-brainstorm on the possibility of creating a new market for the Ministry of Economics Affairs, Energy and Telecom department.
Subject (market), program and report are not available online.
2005
15 December 2005:Workshop -coproduction with the Kenniscentrum voor Ordeningsvraagstukken- on Consumers and Competition. Language: Dutch.
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CPB-report (pdf, 118 pages)
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presentation by Victoria Shestalova (pp)
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presentation by Huub Halsema (pp)
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presentation by Eric van Damme (pp)
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actieplan "een slimme consument op een snelle markt"
(doc, 19 pages)
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presentation by Martin by de Leij (pp)
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presentation by Alwin Sixma (pps)
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presentation by Gerrit Antonides (pp)
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evaluation by participants (pdf)
2 December 2005: ENCORE-brainstorm on policy issues for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, telecom and post department.
Program and report are not available online.
24 June 2005: Seminar 'Illegal Cartels, What We Know, What We Don't and Why' by Paul Grout
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paper 'Predicting Cartels' by Paul Grout and and Silvia Sonderegger
(pdf)
27 May 2005: Seminar ' Restructuring and Efficiency in the US Electric Power Sector', by John Kwoka
29 April 2005: Seminar 'Information Acquisition and Strategic Disclosure in Cournot Oligopoly', by Jos Jansen
14 April 2005: Annual conference 'Welfare and Competition'
> conference papers can be downloaded from the 'publications'-section of this website
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1-2 April 2005: Workshop 'The Economics of Collusion and Tacit Collusion'
Click here for the workshop program (pdf)
The following draft papers were discussed during the workshop:
- The Impact of Leniency and Whistleblowing Programs on Cartels, by Aubert, Rey and Kovacic
- Cartel Overcharges: survey and meta-analysis, by Connor and Bolotova
- Price-fixing Overcharges: legal and economic evidence, by Connor
- Examining Models of Collusion: the Market for Lysine, by de Roos
- On Optimal cartel deterrence policies, by Frezal
- Cartel Pricing Dynamics with Cost Variability and Endogenous Buyer Detection, by Harrington and Chen
- On the Use of Low-Price Guarantees to Discourage Price-Cutting: A Test for Pairwise-Facilitation, by Arbatskaya and Hviid
- Competition Policy, Collusion, and Tacit Collusion, by Martin
- Imperfect Competition Law Enforcement, by Schinkel and Tuinstra
- The Risk of Contagion from Multimarket Contact, by Thomas and Willig
- Internal cartel stability with time-dependent detection probabilities, by Hinloopen
March 18-19, 2005: Workshop 'Experiments for Antitrust Policies'
- Workshop program (pdf)
- Draft paper: Collusion in Growing and Shrinking Markets: Empirical Evidence from Experimental Duopolies, by Abbink and Brandts (pdf)
- Draft paper: Experimental Results on Collusion. The role of information and communication, by Haan, Schoonbeek and Winkel (pdf)
- Draft paper: Price Ceilings as Focal Points? An Experimental Test, by Engelmann and Normann (pdf)
- Draft paper: Merger Policy: What can we learn from experiments?, by Götte and Schmutzler (pdf)
- Draft paper: Experiments on the abuse of a dominant position, by van Damme, Hancher, Pierre Larouche and Müller (pdf)
- Draft paper: Transparency and Collusion. Experimental Evidence, by Potters (pdf)
February 25, 2005: Seminar 'Prize Squeezes' by Jan Bouckaert
working
paper 'Prize Squeezes in a Regulatory Environment'
February 24, 2005: Workshop 'Evaluation of Competitive and Regulatory Policies'
- Program (pdf)
- Introduction (pdf)
- Draft paper Eric van Damme, University of Tilburg (pdf, in Dutch)
- Draft paper Maarten Janssen, Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam (pdf, in Dutch)
- Draft paper Piet Rietveld, Free University Amsterdam (pdf)
- Discussion and
presentation by Maarten Pieter Schinkel, ACLE, University of
Amsterdam (ppt, in Dutch)
- Draft paper Arnoud Boot, ACLE/University of Amsterdam (pdf, in Dutch)
- Draft paper Hugo Keuzenkamp, Delta Lloyd and University of Amsterdam (pdf, in Dutch)
- Draft paper Coen Teulings, SEO, University of Amsterdam (pdf, in Dutch)
- Discussion
and presentation by Jan Koeman, Ministry of Economic Affairs
(pdf, in Dutch)
- Brief evaluation of the workshop (pdf, in Dutch)
January 28, 2005: Seminar 'Unbundling' by Paul de Bijl
working
paper 'Unbundling the local loop: One-Way Access and Imperfect
Competition'
2004
December 17, 2004: Seminar 'Cartel Pricing Dynamics with Cost Variability and Endogenous Buyer Detection' by Joe Harrington
paper 'Cartel Pricing Dynamics with Cost Variability and Endogenous
Buyer Detection' (pdf)
November 26, 2004: Seminar 'Regime Shifts in Antitrust', by Vivek Ghosal
paper Regime Shifts in Antitrust (pdf)
October 29, 2004: Seminar 'Does R&D coorperation facilitate price collusion? An experiment', by Sigrid Suetens
paper Does R&D coorperation facilitate price collusion? An
experiment (pdf)
presentation
Sigrid Suetens (pdf)
October 28, 2004: Workshop 'Competition Issues in Two-Sided Markets', by Mark Armstrong
paper Two-Sided Markets: Economic Theory and Policy Implications
(pdf)
presentation
Stijn van den Broek (ppt)
September 24, 2004: Seminar 'Sport and Competition' by Ruud Koning
paper Balance in competition in Dutch soccer (pdf)
paper Market forces in European soccer (pdf)
June 25, 2004: Seminar 'Dynamic R&D with Spillovers' by Luca Lambertini
working
paper Dynamic R&D with Spillovers: Competition vs Cooperation
(pdf)
June 11, 2004: Seminar 'Incentive
regulation of electricity distribution companies - Theory, practice
and experience' by Thor Erik Grammeltvedt and Misja Mikkers
(ENCORE visiting guests)
Presentation
Misja Mikkers (pdf)
Presentation
Thor Erik Grammeltvedt (pdf)
May 28, 2004: Seminar 'Do Buyer-Sized Discounts Depend on the Curvature of the Surplus Function?' by Hans-Theo Normann
May 17, 2004: ENCORE Council of Economic Advisors
Summary
(doc)
April 15, 2004: Annual conference on 'Measuring Competition'
Conference-division,
including programme, papers and presentations
March 26, 2004: Seminar 'Transparency' by Christian Schultz
working
paper 'Market Transparency and Product Differentiation' (pdf)
'working
paper 'Transparency on the Consumer Side and Tacit Collusion'
(pdf)'
March 4, 2004: Workshop 'Managing Transition' i.c.w. Kenniscentrum voor ordeningsvraagstukken
Position
paper Maarten Janssen (pdf, in Dutch)
Presentation Bertholt Leeftink, Ministry of Finance
(pp, in Dutch)
Presentation Bert Schoonbeek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (pdf,
in Dutch)
Presentation Maarten Janssen, Erasmus University Rotterdam (pp,
in Dutch)
Presentation Remko Bos, OPTA (pp, in Dutch)
February 27, 2004: Seminar 'Consumer Boycotts' by Marco Haan
February 26, 2004: Council 'Cross-subsidies and tendering' i.c.w. Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Summary discussion Tendering
(in Dutch: 'Aanbesteding');
Summary discussion
Cross-subsidization (in Dutch: 'Kruissubsidiëring')
January 30, 2004: Seminar 'Illinois Walls' by Maarten Pieter Schinkel
2003
December 19, 2003: Seminar 'Liberalizing a Distribution System: the European Car Market' by Frank Verboven
November 28, 2003: Seminar 'Advertising in the US Personal Computer Industry' by Michelle Goeree
November 21, 2003: Conference 'Structural Separation and Access Pricing'
Conference summary (doc)
October 23, 2003: Workshop 'Design of Regulation'
Position
paper Roger Sherman (pdf)
Position
paper Per Agrell & Peter Bogetoft (pdf)
September 25, 2003: Seminar 'Firms, Networks and Markets' by Sanjeev Goyal
Working
Paper (pdf)
June 5, 2003: Workhop 'Market Transparency'
Presentations
(powerpoint)
May 6, 2003: Starting Workshop
Workshop
summary (word, Dutch)
April 17, 2003: Official Inaugural Conference
Presentation by Paul Geroski (powerpoint)