Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "Recent Developments in Anti-Trust Analysis"

Venice International University, San Servolo,
21-22 July 2004



Programme

Wednesday, 21 July 2004

Session 1
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address: Jay Pil Choi
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Lecture: To be announced
TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Session 2
10:30 - 11:30 An Empirical Analysis of Bundling and Tying: Over-The-Counter Pain Relief and Cold Medicines
David Evans and MICHAEL SALINGER
Discussant: Georg Goetz
11:30 - 12:30 Politics, Economics and Merger Enforcement
VIVEK GHOSAL
Discussant: Beatrice Dumont
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 3
13:30 - 14:30 Keynote Lecture: Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets
JAY PIL CHOI
14:30 - 15:30 The Effects of Disclosure Regulation on Innovative Firms
JOS JANSEN
Discussant: Dan Kovenock
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
Session 4
15:45 - 16:45 European Antitrust Policy: An Empirical Analysis of Commission Decisions and their Appeals Histories, 1964-2001
Maarten Pieter Schinkel, MARTIN CARREE, and Andrea Guenster
Discussant: Michael Salinger
16:45 - 17:45 Are European Competition Authorities Wrong? Estimating Market Power from Abnormal Stock Returns
BEATRICE DUMONT
Discussant: Maria Jakobsson
19:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 22 July 2004

Session 5
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture: Mergers in Durable-Goods Industries: A Re-Examination of Market Power and Welfare Effects
Ari D. Gerstle and MICHAEL WALDMAN
10:00 - 11:00 Structural Separation and Access in Telecommunications Markets
PAUL de BIJL
Discussant: Maarten Pieter Schinkel
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 6
11:15 - 12:00 Mergers and Product Variety under Spatial Competition: Evidence from Retail Gasoline
George Goetz & KLAUS GUGLER
Discussant: Dan Kovenock
12:00 - 12:45 EU Merger Screening of Market Power in Differentiated Product Industries
FRANCO MARIUZZO, Patrick Paul Walsh & Ciara Whelan
Discussant: Vivek Ghosal
12:45 - 13:30 Ownership Structure of Cable Networks and Competition on Local Access
PEDRO PEREIRA & Duarte Brito
Discussant: Fernando Dominguez Iniguez
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch