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