Inaugural Meeting 20 November 2003, Madrid
Opening Address
John Fingleton, Chairman, Irish Competition Authority
Frederic Jenny, President, Conseil de la Concurrence, France
Plenary Session I: Leniency
Chair Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Brussels
Panellists
Margaret Bloom, Kings College London & formally Office of Fair Trading, U.K.
Olivier Guersent, DG Competition, European Commission
William Kovacic, General Counsel Federal Trade Commission & George Washington University School of Law
Plenary Session II: Unilateral & Coordinated Behaviour
Chair Lars-Hendrick Roller, Chief economist, DG Competition, European Commission
Panellists
Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Jerome Philippe, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Xavier Vives, INSTEAD, France
Mary Coleman, Federal Trade Commission
Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 (Volvo/Scania)
F.Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, Merger Task Force, DG Competition
Marc Ivaldi, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Université Toulouse I
James Venit, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Brussels
Monica Widegren, Swedish Competition Authority
Panel 2 (Payment Systems)
Patrick Bolton, Princeton University
David Evans, NERA, Cambridge
Bernhard Friess, DG Competition, European Commission
Jean-Charles Rochet, IDEI, Université de Toulouse
Panel 3 (Art. 82 UPS/DeutschePost)
Christian Ewald, Bundeskartellamt, Bonn
Pierre Buigues, DG Competition, European Commission
Joelle Toledano, La Poste, France
Greg Sidak, American Institute & Criterion Economics, LLC
Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 (High/Low Pricing)
Patrick Bolton, Princeton University
Alberto Heimler, Autoritá Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, Rome
Anne Pope, Office of Fair Trading, U.K.
Derek Ridyard, RBB Economics, United Kingdom
Panel 5 (Pay-TV Mergers)
Cristina Caffarra, Lexecon, U.K.
Atilano Jorge Padilla, NERA European Policy Practice, Madrid
Miguel Mendes Pereira, DG Competition, European Commission
Nadia Calvino Santamaria, Direccion General de Defensa de la Competencia, Spain
Panel 6 (Mobile Call Termination)
Jordi Gual, IESE Business School, Barcelona
Geoffrey Myers, OFTEL, U.K.
Mike Walker, Charles River Associates, London