ACE 2014 presentations
Below you will find some of the presentations for the 12th annual ACE conference, which took place at the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), University of Mannheim and ZEW on 5-6 December, 2014.
Parallel Sessions I
Mobile telephony mergers: Telefonica/E-plus
Chair: Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Portuguese Competition Authority
Rainer Nitsche/Lars Wiethaus, E.CA
Online hotel bookings
Chair: Alexis Walckiers, Belgian Competition Authority
Sara Buccino/Christian Ewald, BKartA
Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim
Audit Services Market Investigation
Chair: Alex Baker, Fingleton Associates
Alex Baker, Fingleton Associates
Marie Clark (CMA), Robin Finer (FCA), Caitlin Wilkinson (KPMG)
Amelia Fletcher, University of East Anglia
Parallel Sessions II
Ineos/Solvay
Chair: David Parker, Frontier Economics
Francesco DeCarolis, Boston University
State aid in the energy sector
Chair: David Spector, Paris School of Economics and MAPP
Felix Hoeffler, University of Cologne
GIS Damages
Chair: Benoît Durand, RBB
Parallel Sessions III
Retail Food Sector Inquiry
Chair: Niels Frank, Lademann Associates
Christian Ewald/Matthias Freund, BKartA
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, University of Vienna
Mergers with failing firms: Ultralase/Optimax (UK and Jysk/ID Design (Denmark)
Chair: Bruce Lyons, University of East Anglia
Kate Collyer/Massimo Tognoni, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)
Thomas Rønde, Danish Competition Authority
Peter Møllgaard, Copenhagen Business School
L'Equipe
Thibaud Verge, ENSAE
Frederic Palomino, Compass Lexecon
Bruno Jullien, University of Toulouse
Panel Discussion:
Effects-based analysis of exclusionary pricing practices - back to square one?
Chair: Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim
Panellists:
Kai-Uwe Kühn, University of Michigan
Chiara Fumagalli, Bocconi University
Discussant: Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University