Preliminary Programme: Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy Workshop

23 January 2009, City University, London

8:30 / REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:00-9:15 / INRODUCTION
Parallel session 1: Energy
Chair: JON STERN
9:15-10:45 / MARK COPLEY – CEPA (with Paul Smith)
Auctions in the UK energy industry – Myths and realities
DISCUSSANT: OLIVER MASSOL
OLIVER MASSOL –IFP (with Stephane Tchung-Ming)
Cooperation in the global LNG industry; Is rationalization the main motivation?
DISCUSSANT: JO EVANS
Parallel session 2: Competition Policy
Chair: ALBERT BANAL ESTANOL
9:15-10:45 / GIAN FAZIO - OFT AND UCL (with Paul Hutchinson)
To refer or not to refer: An empirical analysis of UK merger policy
DISCUSSANT: ALBERT BANAL ESTANOL
SUZANNE RAB – HOGAN & HARTSON LLP
Ordered competition or a new competitive order?
DISCUSSANT: GIAN FAZIO
11:30-11:45 / SHORT BREAK
Parallel Session 3: Issues in Regulation
Chair: XENI DASSIOU
11:00-12:30 / JULIE DE BRUX - PARIS 1
The determinants of cooperation and opportunism in renegotiations – An application to public private partnership contracts
DISCUSSANT: XENI DASSIOU
FRANCESC TRILLAS - UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Regulatory federalism in network industries
DISCUSSANT: JON STERN
Parallel Session 4: Market Power and Barriers to Entry in Financial Competition
Chair: JOHN CUBBIN
11:00-12:30 / JOZSEF MOLNAR – BANK OF FINLAND
Market power and merger simulation in retail banking
DISCUSSANT: RICARDO RIBEIRO
RICARDO RIBEIRO – STICERD, LSE
Market dominance and barriers to competition in financial trading venues
DISCUSSANT: JOZSEF MOLNAR
12:30-13:30 / LUNCH
13:30-13:45 / BUSINESS MEETING
Parallel session 5: Rail Benchmarking and Electricity Prices
Chair: IAN ALEXANDER
13:45-15:15 / GREGORY SMITH – OFFICE OF RAIL REGULATION (with Andrew Smith)
The role of international benchmarking in developing rail infrastructure efficiency estimates
DISCUSSANT: JOHN CUBBIN
MONICA GIULIETTI ASTON UNIVERSITY (with Michael Waterson)
Links between wholesale and domestic retail electricity prices in the UK?
DISCUSSANT: IAN ALEXANDER
Parallel session 6: Competition Issues in Advertising & Innovation
Chair: ALBERT BANAL ESTANOL
13:45-15:15 / TOBIAS KRETSCHMER – UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (with Eugenio Miravete & Jose Pernias)
Competitive pressure and innovation complementarities
DISCUSSANT: CLAUDIO PIGA
HUI PAN – UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Content and advertising: TV media competition in a mixed duopoly market
DISCUSSANT: KLAUS ZAUNER
16:00-16:30 / AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS
Parallel session 7: Multimedia and UK Directory Enquiries
Chair: XENI DASSIOU
15:30-17:00 / RUFUS POLLOCK – UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Changing the numbers: UK directory enquiries deregulation and the failure of choice
DISCUSSANT: JOHN THANASSOULIS
JOHN THANASSOULIS – OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Is multimedia convergence to be welcomed?
DISCUSSANT: RUFUS POLLOCK
Parallel session 8: Issues in Competition & Regulation
Chair: KLAUS ZAUNER
15:30-17:00 / CLAUDIO PIGA – LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY (with Marco Alderighi)
The circular city with heterogeneous firms
DISCUSSANT: TOBIAS KRETSCHMER
PAUL MADDEN - UNIVERSITY OF MACHESTER
Large sports leagues and their regulation
DISCUSSANT: FRANCESC TRILLAS
5:00-6:00 / ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION: BOUNDARIES AND OVERLAP BETWEEN COMPETITION POLICY AND REGULATION
Chair: Jon Stern
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
6:00-6:10 / FAREWELL