ACE 2016 Presentations
Below are some of the presentations at the 14th annual ACE conference at University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam:
Parallel sessions I
Celesio/Sainsbury and Landbrokes/Coral
Chair: Bojana Ignjatovic (RBB)
Alistair Love and Ivan Olszak (CMA), Diana Jackson (CRA), Tomaso Duso (DIW)
Telkom/BCX
Chair: Kurt R. Brekke (Norwegian Competition Authority)
Hardin Ratshisusu (Compcon), Helanya Fourie (Econex), Hamid Aghadadashli (Ecares, ULB)
Verticals study
Chair: Jarig van Sinderen (ACM)
Alistair Campbell and Hugh Mullan (CMA), Avantika Chowdhury (Oxera), Salvatore Piccolo (U Cattolica, Milano)
Plenary Session I
Passing on of Overcharges
Speakers:
Benoît Durand (RBB), Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics), Szabolcs Lorincz (European Commission) and Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics).
Moderator:
Kate Collyer (CMA)
Parallel sessions II
Container Shipping
Chair: Bruno Jullien (TSE)
Massimo Motta (Barcelona GSE), Justin Coombs (Compass), Patrick Legros (Ecares, ULB)
Ahold/Delhaize
Chair: Simon Robergs (Johannesburg U)
Griet Jans (BCA), Raphäel De Coninck (CRA), Jan Bouckaert (U Antwerpen)
Deutsche Post
Chair: Gunnar Niels (Oxera)
Christina Strassmair (BKA), Rainer Nitsche (ECA), Cédric Argenton (TILEC)
Parallel sessions III
GE/Alstom
Chair: Kai-Uwe Kühn (UEA, CRA)
Daniel Coublucq (European Commission), Andrea Lofaro (RBB), David Martimort (PSE)
Staatsloterij/De Lotto
Chair: Bert Stulens (BCA)
Peter Dijkstra (ACM), Roger van Engelen (AT Kearney), Maarten Pieter Schinkel (UvA)
Energy market investigation
Chair: Georges Siotis (UC3M, Compass)
Nenad Njegovan (CMA), James Baker (Frontier), Vlaude Crampes (TSE)
Plenary session II
Competition Issues in Big data
Speaker:
Daniel Rubinfeld (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussed by Cristina Caffarra (CRA)
Moderator: Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam)
Parallel sessions IV
Capacity mechanisms
Chair: Arvid Fredenberg (Swedish Competition Authority)
Adina Claici and Lluis Sauri (European Commission), Christoph Riechmann (Frontier), Bert Willems (TILEC)
FNAC/Darty
Chair: Pascale Deschamps (Oxera)
Sébastien Lecou (Autorité), Hélène Bourguignon (Mapp), Elena Argentesi (Unibo)
BT/EE
Chair: Matthew Bennett (CRA)
Paul Reeve (CMA), Andrew Swan (Compass), Lapo Filistrucchi (UniFi and TILEC)
Plenary session III
The Role of Economics in Competition Cases: A Users' Perspective
Speakers:
Chris Fonteijn (ACM), Nicholas Levy (Cleary Gottlieb), Maria Eugenia Martins Ribeiro (European General Court)
Moderator:
Massimo Motta (Barcelona GSE)
Best paper award and presentation
Michael D. Grubb (Boston College)