The
Evolution of Market Structure in
Network Industries
Training and Mobility of
Researchers Network
Workshops and Conferences
The Network structure has been very instrumental in fostering collaboration in research and scientific interaction. Network members have met at various workshops and conferences during the course of this project, including:
During the first 30 months of the project Network members have met at various workshops and conferences, details of which are given below:
The Network held a
research workshop in November 1998 in Barcelona. The papers presented by
Network members included: ‘How
efficient is the ECPR’, Antonio Leite and Vascos Santos (both
Universidade Nova de Lisboa); ‘Competition and Collusion between
Telecommunication Networks’, Wouter Dessein (ECARE); ‘Regulating
Complementary Input Supply: Cost Correlation and Limited Liability’, Jos
Jansen, (WZB); ‘Licensing in Aftermarkets as a Second-Sourcing
Commitment and as a Screening Device’, Christian Wey (WZB) and
‘Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel?’, Olivier Cadot (INSEAD),
Andreas Stephan (WZB) and Lars-Hendrik Röller (WZB). In addition, the
first Monitoring European Deregulation report, ‘Europe's Network
Industries: Conflicting Priorities’ (further details below) was
presented by Chris Doyle (London Business School).
In October 1999 Lars-Hendrik Röller (WZB, CEPR, Humboldt University Berlin, INSEAD) and Christian Wey (WZB) organised a conference on ‘The Organization of Competition’. The conference was hosted by the Research Area Competitiveness and Industrial Change (CIC) of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and was attended by Network members. The 10 papers presented covered four issues related to the topic of the conference: Price Competition, Licensing, Market Regulation, and Market Institutions.
A
second conference on the subject of "Industrial Structure and Input
Markets", supported in part by the TMR project, by the German
National Foundation and ZEW, was held in Mannheim in May 2000. It was
organized by Network partner Konrad Stahl jointly with Dietmar Harhoff,
University of Munich and CEPR. This conference was attended by about 50
economists. It focussed on the same subjects as its predecessor. Many network
members participated. Network participants presented papers as well as
acted as discussants.
Network members also met at the European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory in July 2000, as they had done in 1998 & 1999, whose organisers included Network team leaders Patrick Legros (ECARES-ULB) and Xavier Vives (CSIC). Several papers were given by Network participants, and the young researcher based at CSIC, Nicolas Melissas, was able to attend this prestigious conference.
The Network held its
second research workshop in December 1999 in Fontainebleau. The
organizers were Olivier Cadot (INSEAD, Université de Lausanne and CEPR)
and Lars-Hendrik Röller (WZB, CEPR, Humboldt University Berlin, INSEAD).
All teams were
represented at the workshop, and in addition to presenting papers, the
participants took the opportunity to discuss the progress of the research
agenda, administrative matters and the future research programme.
The Network meeting took place in October 2001 in Lisbon, and was organized by Pedro Pita Barros and Steffen Hoernig (Young Researcher). A programme for this event can be found in Annex II.
Several other events took place during this reporting period, which whilst not formally a Network meeting, included several members of the Network and discussed issues close to the heart of the Network’s research agenda. One example of this is the European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory in July 2001, whose organisers included Network team leaders Patrick Legros (ECARES-ULB) and Xavier Vives (IAE). Several papers were given by Network participants from the teams based at Mannheim, WZB, Lisbon, ECARES and CEPR, and the young researcher based at Lisbon, Steffen Hoernig, was able to attend this prestigious conference.
Young Researchers who become affiliated to the Network gain from their inclusion in other CEPR activities, including workshops, conferences and the possibility to submit Discussion Papers to the CEPR series. Furthermore, through this inclusion they gain exposure to the high-level international academic economists who participate in CEPR events.
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