Past Conferences

	Ifo / CESifo & OECD Conference on Regulation: Political Economy, Measurement and Effects on Performance
	Programme Friday, 29 January 2010 Political Economy of Regulations
12:30 - 13:30	Welcome Lunch
13:30 - 13:40	Welcome Note: WOLFGANG OCHEL (Ifo Institute for Economic Research) and GIUSEPPE NICOLETTI (OECD)
	Session 1
13:40-14:20	The Euro and Structural Reform Invited Speaker: VINCENZO GALASSO (Bocconi University) Open Discussion
14:20-15:00	The Political Economy of Regulatory Risk ROLAND STRAUSZ (Humboldt-University Berlin) Discussant: Carlo Scarpa (University of Brescia)
15:00 - 15:40	Optimal Delegation of Enforcement: Centralization vs. Decentralization JING XU (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Discussant: Ray Rees (University of Munich)
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2
16:00 - 16:40	Regulatory Threat in Unregulated Utility Sectors: Empirical Evaluation of the Swedisch District Heating Sector MAGNUS SÖDERBERG (University of South Australia) Discussant: Ingo Vogelsang (Boston University)
16:40 - 17:20	Policy Complementarities and Growth Jorge Braga de Marcedo, JOAQUIM OLIVEIRA-MARTINS (OECD) and Bruno Rocha Discussant: Francois Combarnous (University of Bordeaux)
17:20 - 18:00	Institutions, Socio-Economic Models and Development: An Overview of the Literature and a Methodology ERIC ROUGIER (University of Bordeaux) and François Combarnous Discussant: Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)
19:00	Conference Dinner
	Saturday, 30 January 2010 Measurement and Outcome of Regulations
	Session 3
09:00 - 09:20	The Revised and Extended PMR Indicator ANITA WÖLFL (OECD)
09:20 - 10:00	Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries Invited Speaker: JACQUES MAIRESSE (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST)) Open Discussion
10:00 - 10:40	Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training: A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe ANDREA BASSANINI (OECD) and Giorgio Brunello Discussant: Guido Schwerdt (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4
11:00 - 11:40	Much Ado about Something? Regulation, Resource Reallocation and Productivity in a Panel of Countries Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti and STEFANO SCARPETTA (OECD) Discussant: Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
11:40 - 12:20	Environmental Regulation and Industry Dynamics ADITI SENGUPTA (Southern Methodist University Dallas) Discussant: Till Requate (University of Kiel)
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch
	Session 5
13:20 - 14:00	Incentive Regulation, Investment and Technological Change Invited Speaker: INGO VOGELSANG (Boston University) Open Discussion
14:00 - 14:40	The Reform of Network Industries, Privatisation and Consumers' Welfare: Evidence from the EU15 CARLO V. FIORIO (University of Milan) and Massimo Florio Discussant: Maria Laura Parisi (University of Brescia)
14:40 - 15:00	Coffee Break
	Session 6
15:00 - 15:40	Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms: Does Liberalization Matter? EMANUELE FORLANI (Université Catholique de Louvain) Discussant: Oliver Röhn (OECD)
15:40 - 16:20	Temporary Workers and Seasoned Managers as Causes of Low Productivity FRANCESCO DAVERI (University of Parma) and Maria Laura Parisi Discussant: Thomas Strobel (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
	END OF THE CONFERENCE

Ifo / CESifo & OECD Conference on Regulation:

Political Economy, Measurement and Effects on Performance

Programme

Friday, 29 January 2010

Political Economy of Regulations

Session 1

Session 2

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Measurement and Outcome of Regulations

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session 6