ACE 2007 Presentations
Below you find the presentations made at the 5th annual conference of the Association of Competition Economics on November 29-30, 2007 at Université de Toulouse 1.
Plenary Session
Keynote speech by Damien Neven, Chief Economist, DG Competition, European Commission.
Round Table on "Buyer Power"
Chairman: Massimo Motta, professor, EUI and Università di Bologna
John Fingleton, CEO, Office of Fair Trading, GB
Damien Neven, Chief Economist, DG Competition, European Commission
Roman Inderst, Professor, University of Frankfurt (IMFS) & LSE
Panel I: Article 82 and Predation: The Wanadoo case
Chairman: Alison Oldale, LECG, GB
Miguel de la Mano, CET, DG Competition, European Commission
The use (and abuse) of price-cost tests for predation: Lessons from the Wanadoo case
Jérôme Philippe, Freshfields, FR
Giancarlo Spagnolo, Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
Panel II: Horizontal Mergers: Merger in the salmon market
Chairman: Peter Møllgaard, Copenhagen Business School, DK
Intro: Horizontal mergers: Merger in the salmon market
Diana Jackson, Charles Rivers Associates Intl., GB
Pan Fish/Marine Harvest:Three theories of harm, two competition authorities, and a remedy
Romain Lesur, Conseil de la Concurrence, FR
Unilateral effects in Cournot markets with differentiated products
Benoît Durand, Competition Commission, GB
Panel III: Case presentation: Svitzer/Wijsmuler
Chairman: Andrea Coscelli, Charles Rivers Associates Intl., GB
Andrea Lofaro, RBB, GB
Svitzer/Adsteam: Assessing unilateral effects when monopolists merge
Adam Land, Competition Commission, GB
SvitzerWijsmuller A/S and Adsteam Marine Ltd
Mats Bergman, Uppsala University & Södertörn University College
Potential competition as a competitive constraint
Panel IV: Article 82 and Predation: the Glaxo case
Chairman: Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, D
Article 82 and Predation:The (French) Glaxo Case
Philippe Choné, Conseil de la Concurrence, FR
The GSK France Decision of March 2007
Michele Polo, University of Bocconi and LECG, I
The GSK France case: in search of a consistent story
Eric Avanel, University of Grenoble, FR
An academic outsider’s view on the Glaxo case
Panel V: Vertical mergers and competition: The EWS-Marcroft case
Chairman: Pierluigi Sabbatini, Italian Competition Authroity, I
Adam Land, Competition Commission, GB
English Welsh & Scottish Railway Holdings Ltd (“EWS”)/ Marcroft Holdings Ltd
Neil Pratt, Frontier Economics, GB
Vertical mergers - EWS/Marcroft
Roman Inderst, LSE and University of Frankfurt
EWS/Marcroft: Market Definition and Incentives for Foreclosure
Panel VI: Potentially excessive prices and switching costs: banking cases from Hungary (OTP Bank)
Chairman: Anne Perrot, Conseil de la Concurrence, FR
Gergely Csorba, Hungarian Competition Commission, H
Norbert Maier, London Economics, GB
Bruno Jullien, University of Toulouse 1, FR
Potentially excessive prices and switching costs: banking cases from Hungary (OTP Bank)
Panel VII: Article 82 - Microsoft: "Rights", "Wrongs" and Priorities for Economic Analysis
Chairman: Yannis Katsoulacos, Athens University of Economics and Business, G
Commission Vs. Microsoft: "Rights", "Wrongs" and Priorities for Economic Analysis
Amelia Fletcher, Office of Fair Trading, GB
The CFI Microsoft Judgment: Abuse 1 - Interoperability
Matthew Bennet, LECG, GB
Some comments on the Microsoft CFI Judgement
Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse 1, FR
After Commission vs. Microsoft: Priorities for Economic Analysis
Panel VIII: Case presentation: Ryanair/Aer Lingus
Chairman: Mark Williams, NERA, GB and B
Adrian Majumdar, RBB, B
RYANAIR / AER LINGUS: Merger of highly differentiated services
Giulio Federico, Charles Rivers Associates Intl, B
Ryanair / Aer Lingus: A politicised case
Marc Ivaldi, University of Toulouse 1, FR
Ryanair / Aer Lingus case: Some comments
Coordinated effects: the Sony case
Chairman: Valérie Rabassa, DGCCRF, FR
Simon Pilsbury, Oxera, GB