Residence Palace, Rue De La Loi 155, Brussels, Belgium

3rd Annual CRNI Conference, 19 November 2010

Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155, Brussels, Belgium

Programme

Parallel sessions A

1.  [IRE] Innovative regulation for intelligent electricity networks

a.  TBA.

b.  TBA.

c.  TBA.

d.  TBA.

2.  [CNI] Challenges in network industries I

a.  Struggling for Competition in Regulated Network Industries: Experiences in Italy (Alberto Asquer)

b.  Liberalisation Models in the Electricity Sector: The Impacts of the Market for Corporate Control in Britain and Spain, 1996-2008 (Michel Goyer and Rocio Valdivielso del Real)

c.  The Regulatory Framework of the Thai Electricity Sector (Pornchai Wisuttisak)

d.  Public ownership: A Trend that Defines the U.S. Water Industry (Dan Jackson)

3.  [POS] Postal services

a.  The Model for Services Cost Accounting and Avoiding the Cross-subsidy Phenomenon in the Postal Sector (Mladenka Blagojević, Dejan Marković and Momčilo Dobrodolac)

b.  Defining the Universal Postal Service 2020 by Contingent Communications Regulation (Sven Heitzler)

c.  VAT Developments in the Cross-border Mail Market (Paul Schoorl)

d.  When, Why, and How is Open Innovation Applicable to Postal Companies: A Case Study on Swiss Post Innovation Management (Andrea Stucki)

Parallel sessions B

4.  [ELE] Electricity

a.  Cost of Electricity in Brazil: Effects of the 2004 Regulatory Reform (Monica Barros and Marina Figueira de Mello)

b.  Forecasting Electricity Spot Prices: Do Fundamentals Matter? (Karina Knaus and Constanze Müller)

c.  One-number Concentration Indicators in Capacity-constrained Electricity Markets (Delphine Perrot-Voisard and Georg Zachmann)

d.  Ownership Unbundling, Investments and Consumer Prices – A Panel Data Analysis (Stephan Schmitt and Margarethe Rammerstorfer)

5.  [CNI] Challenges in network industries II

a.  An Economic Framework to Understand and Assess Regulations in Network Industries (Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner)

b.  Governance of Hybrid Organizations in Network Industries: Basic Arrangements and Their Theoretical Underpinnings (Till Talaulicar and Jakob Müller)

c.  Market Delineation in Network Industries: The Case of Airlines (Kai Hüschelrath)

d.  Innovation in European Electricity Utilities: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Charalambos Tselentis)

6.  [TEL] Telecommunications and internet

a.  Cognitive Radio: Towards Successful Deployment; The Role of Industry Coordination (Wolter Lemstra, Peter Anker and Vic Hayes)

b.  Faulty Experimentation Under U.S. Deregulatory Broadband Policies: Relearning the Benefits of Prior Legal Innovations for Governance of Networks (Barbara Cherry)

c.  Net Neutrality Observed in More Detail: Influences on End User Experienced Neutrality of Internet Based Services (Sietse van der Gaast)

d.  Broadband Internet in the United States (Kingsley Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli)

Parallel sessions C

7.  [GAS] Natural gas

a.  The 3rd Gas Liberalization Package and New 3rd Gas Directive: Challenges in Implementation of Functional and Legal Unbundling in the Gas Storage Sector (Anton Ming-Zhi Gao)

b.  The Effect of Competitive Pressure from the Electric Utilities on Regulated Gas Prices in Japan (Toru Hattori)

c.  New Foundations for EU Energy Policy (Nicole Ahner, Jean-Michel Glachant and Adrien de Hauteclocque)

d.  Non-discriminatory Third-party Access to the Gas Transmission Network: Where Does Objective Justification of Discriminatory TPA for Credit Worthiness Reasons Come From? (Hannah Kruimer)

8.  [INI] Investment and innovation

a.  Regulatory Incentives for Investments in Electricity Networks (Konstantin Petrov, Daniel Grote and Denis Resnjanskij)

b.  Impact of Incentive Regulation in the Netherlands on Investments in Electricity and Gas Networks (Paul Nillesen, Dorine Helmer and Rajendra Sitompoel)

c.  Infrastructure Sector Characteristics and Implications for Innovation and Sectoral Transformation (Jochen Markard)

d.  ACER and Regulating Sustainable Energy Innovation; A Legal Perspective (Michiel Heldeweg)

9.  [CCN] Coherence and co-evolution in network industries

a.  Governing the Smart Grid Transition: The UK Case (Ronald Bolton and Tim Foxon)

b.  Performance and Coherence in Network Industries (Nicolas Crettenand, Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza and Christof Duthaler)

c.  Coherence of Institutes and Technology for Three Transition Paths of
Distributed Power Supply Systems (Albert Faber)

d.  Transition from Short to Long-term System Adequacy in the Electricity Sector: An Approach of Studying Co-evolution Between Institutions and Innovation (Lana Sukhodolska)