Previous seminars

2006

17 May 2006 (at The Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Hague): Jakob Rüggeberg (UvA) on ‘Damage Actions for Breach of The Community Competition Rules’.

• Paper will become available online

 

7 March 2006 (at OPTA, The Hague): Martin Peitz (International University Germany) and Paul de Bijl (University of Tilburg)

• Access Regulation and the Adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol, click for paper

2005

24 June 2005: Paul Grout (University of Bristol)

• 'Predicting Cartels', executive summary working paper by Paul Grout and Silvia Sonderegger (pdf)
• Presentation 'Illegal Cartels, What We Know, What We Don't and Why' (pp)

 

27 May 2005: John Kwoka (Northeastern University, Boston)

• Restructuring and Efficiency in the US Electric Power Sector (prel. paper)

 

April 29, 2005: Jos Jansen (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, DE)

• Information Acquisition and Stragetic Disclosure in Cournot Oligopoly

February 25, 2005: Jan Bouckaert (University of Antwerp)

• working paper 'Prize Squeezes in a Regulatory Environment'

 

January 28, 2005: Paul de Bijl (Tilburg University)

• working paper 'Unbundling the local loop:One-Way Access and Imperfect Competition'
• presentation

2004

December 17, 2004: Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)

•  working paper 'Cartel Pricing Dynamics with Cost Variability and Endogenous Buyer Detection'

 

November 26, 2004: Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)

•  working paper 'Regime Shifts in Antitrust'

 

October 29, 2004: Sigrid Suetens (University of Antwerp)

•  working paper 'Does R&D cooperation facilitate price
  collusion? An experiment.'

 

September 24, 2004: Ruud Koning (University of Groningen)

•  working paper 'Balance in competition in Dutch soccer'
•  working paper 'Market Forces in European Soccer'

June 25, 2004: Luca Lambertini (Bologna University)

• working paper 'Dynamic R&D with Spillovers: Competition vs Cooperation' (pdf, 31 pages)

June 11, 2004: Thor Erik Grammeltvedt and Misja Mikkers
(ENCORE visiting guests)

> 'Incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies - Theory, practice and experience'

• Presentation Misja Mikkers (pdf)
• Presentation Thor Erik Grammeltvedt (pdf)

28 May 2004: Hans-Theo Normann (London University)

• working paper 'Do Buyer-Sized Discounts Depend on the Curvature of the Surplus Function? Experimental Tests of Bargaining Models' (pdf, 42 pages)

26 March 2004: Christian Schultz (University of Copenhagen)

• working paper 'Market Transparency and Product Differentiation' (pdf, 10 pages)
• working paper 'Transparency on the Consumer Side and Tacit Collusion' (pdf, 28 pages)

27 February 2004: Marco Haan (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

•  working paper 'Consumer Boycotts' (pdf, 20 pages)

30 January 2004: Maarten Pieter Schinkel (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

• working paper 'Illinois Walls' (Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Jan Tuinstra and Jakob Rüggeberg, pdf, 19 pages)

2003

19 December 2003: Frank Verboven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

• working paper 'Liberalizing a Distribution System: the European Car Market' (Frank Verboven and Randy Brenkers, pdf, 43 pages)

28 November 2003: Michelle Sovinsky Goeree (University of Amsterdam)

• working paper 'Advertising in the US Personal Computer Industry' (pdf, 56 pages)

25 September 2003: Sanjeev Goyal (University of Essex)

• working paper 'Firms, networks and markets: A survey of recent research' (pdf, 30 pages)