ACE 2009 presentations
Below you will find the presentations for the 7th annual ACE meeting, which took place at ESMT in Berlin 26-27 November 2009.
Welcome address: Lars-Hendrik Röller, President ESMT
Keynote Speech: Christian Ewald, Bundeskartellamt: Organizing Economists in Competition Law Enforcement; Varying Solutions - Constant Changes
Panel I: Exchange of Information: The Bank Case in Israel
Chair: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Boaz Golan and Shlomi Parizat, Israel Antitrust Authority, Israel
Facilitating Practices in the Israeli Retail Banking Sector
Menachem Perlman, Perlman & Co., Israel
Israel Antitrust Authority v. Bank Hapoalim et al. – Exchange of information
Kai-Uwe Kühn, University of Michigan, USA
"Information exchange" in the Israeli banking sector
Panel II: Ticketmaster-Live Nation: Beyond vertical issues
Chair: Helen Jenkins, Oxera, UK
Paul Hutchinson, OFT, UK
Rachel Webster, Frontier Economics, UK
Marc Ivaldi, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Live Nation / Ticketmaster – some comments from outside the case
Panel III: Termination Calls
Chair: Peter Davis
Andrea Coscelli, Ofcom, UK
Regulating Mobile Call Termination Rates
Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Mike Walker, CRAI, UK
Some thoughts on the future of call termination regulation
Panel IV: Project Kangaroo – A JV in the Pay TV Sector
Chair: Lars Sørgard, Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
Nicola Mazzarotto, Competition Commission, UK
Project Kangaroo: the CC’s analysis and decision
Zoltan Biro, Frontier Economics, UK
Bruno Jullien, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Panel V: The German Cement Cartel – Econometric Assessment of Damage and Computation of Fines
Chair: Benoit Durand, RBB, Belgium
Christian Ewald and Christian Bongard, Bundeskartellamt, Germany
Hans W. Friederiszick, ESMT Competition Analysis, Germany
Overcharge Estimation in the Cement Industry
Ulrich Schwalbe, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Panel VI: Rebates – Practical Implementations in Recent Cases (Intel)
Chair: Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, Germany
Claes Bengtsson, DG Competition, EC
Giulio Federico, CRAI, UK and IESE, Spain
The Intel Decision: Some Economic Remarks
Adrian Majumdar, RBB, Belgium
Massimo Motta, ICREA-Univ. Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE, Spain
Exclusionary rebates: A note on Intel
Panel VII: BAGS-AMRAC
Chair: Svend Albæk, DG Competition, EC
James Kavanagh, Oxera, UK
BAGS v AMRAC: the case of AMRAC
Bill Bishop, CRAI, UK
Philippe Février, Crest-Lei, France
BAGS / AMRAC: Concluding remarks
Panel VIII: Campina / Friesland
Chair: David Sevy, LECG, France
Szabolcs Lorincz, DG Competition, EC
The Campina / Friesland merger case – an overview
Matthijs Visser, RBB, Netherlands
John Thanassoulis, Oxford University, UK
Friesland Foods / Campina – An Academic’s Point Of View
Panel IX: Temporary Work
Chair: Laurent Flochel, CRAI, France
Valérie Meunier, Autorité de la concurrence, France
Temporary Work: An evaluation of economic harm
Francesco Rosati, RBB, Belgium
A quasi-natural experiment to estimate cartel effects. The Case of Temporary Workers in France
Sébastien Roux, INSEE-CREST, France
Discussion – Temporary Work: Evaluation of Economic Harm
Round table: Assessment of Competitive Damages
Chair: Lars-Hendrik Röller, ESMT, Berlin
Raphaël de Conink, DG Competition, EC
Assessment of Damages for the Breach of EC Antitrust Rules
Helen Jenkins, Oxera, UK
Jorge Padilla, LECG, Spain
Competition Damages: Empirical Challenges
Peter Møllgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Non-price effects in the calculation of damages
William E. Kovacic, Federal Trade Commission, USA
Damages in U.S. Antitrust Cases: The Increasing Centrality of Economics
Best Paper of the Year Award
James Bushnell, Erin Mansur and Celeste Saravia