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Programme
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Please note: On Friday 9th December, a bus will leave from the front of the hotel at 18.30 sharp to take you to the restaurant.
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Friday 9 December – Room 1
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09.00-09.15
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Welcome
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09.15-12.00
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International Mergers and Acquisitions
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09.15-10.00
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Corporate Hierarchies and International Trade
*Dalia Marin (Universität München and CEPR)
Thierry Verdier (Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Johannes Stephan (Institute for Economic Research)
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10.00-10.45
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Domestic Versus Cross-Border Acquisitions: Which Impact on the Target Firms' Performance?
*Olivier Bertrand (University of Toulouse)
Habib Zitouna (ESSEC of Tunis)
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Discussant:
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Adám Török (University of Veszprém and Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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10.45-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-12.30
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Plenary Session
Chair: Patrick Legros (ECARES and CEPR)
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11.00-11.45
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Cross-National Competition Policies: Empirical Evidence on Trends, Growth and Firm Behaviour
Pedro Pita Barros (ERSE, REUNL and CEPR)
Joseph A. Clougherty (WZB and CEPR)
Jo Seldeslachts (WZB)
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11.45-12.30
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Leniency and Whistleblowers in Antitrust
*Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
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12.30-14.00
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Lunch
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14.00-15.30
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Co-operation and Collusion
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14.00-14.45
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Information Sharing and Lending Market Competition with Switching Costs and Poaching
(accepted for the programme but withdrawn due to personal reasons)
*Thomas Gehrig (Universität Freiburg and CEPR)
Rune Stenbacka (Swedish School of Economics)
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Discussant:
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Estelle Cantillon (ECARES, Harvard Business School and CEPR)
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14.45-15.30
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Reputation and Collusion in Procurement
*Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna)
Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
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Discussants:
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Daniel Traca (INSEAD, Solvay Business School and CEPR)
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15.30-16.00
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Coffee Break
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16.00-17.30
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Competition, Mergers and Risk
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16.00-16.45
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Competition and Price Volatility when Consumers are Loss
Averse
*Paul Heidhues (WZB and CEPR)
Botond Koszegi (UC Berkeley)
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Discussant:
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Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (LSE and Yale University)
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16.45-17.30
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Mergers with Product Market Risk
Albert Banal-Estanol (University of Western Ontario)
*Marco Ottaviani (LBS and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Joachim Keller (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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19.00
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Dinner
La Manufacture
Rue Notre Dame du Sommeil 12-20
1000 Bruxelles
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Friday 9 December – Room 2
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09.15-10.45
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Competition Perspectives on Economic Reforms
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09.15-10.00
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Monitoring Telecom Developments in Latin America
Manuela Naessl (Graduate Institute of International
Damien Neven (Graduate Institute of International Studies,
and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Joszef Molnar (IDEI Toulouse)
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10.00-10.45
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Trade Reforms, Market Power, and Pass-Through in Selected
Asian Nations
Simon J Evenett (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Krista Lucenti
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Discussant:
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Elena Argentesi (University of Bologna)
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10.45-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-12.30
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Plenary Session
Chair: Patrick Legros (ECARES and CEPR)
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11.15-17.30
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Regional Rules on Competition Policy
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11.00-11.45
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Cross-National Competition Policies: Empirical Evidence on Trends, Growth and Firm Behaviour
Pedro Pita Barros (ERSE, REUNL and CEPR)
Joseph A. Clougherty (WZB and CEPR)
Jo Seldeslachts (WZB)
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11.45-12.30
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Leniency and Whistleblowers in Antitrust
*Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
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12.30-14.00
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Lunch
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14.00-17.30
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Regional Rules on Competition Law
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14.00-14.45
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EC Competition Law and National Competition Law: Substitutes or Complements? Evidence From Recently Acceded Member States
*Andrzej Cylwik (CASE)
Kamila Kloc (CASE)
Krzysztof Kowalczyk (CASE)
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Discussant:
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Discussant: Damien Neven (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and CEPR)
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14.45-15.30
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Australasian Competition Law: Issues and Lessons - A Case Study
*David K Round (University of South Australia)
Kerry A Round (University of South Australia)
Jeremy Tustin (University of South Australia)
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Discussant:
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Joseph A. Clougherty (WZB and CEPR)
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15.30-16.00
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Coffee Break
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16.00-16.45
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EU Merger Remedies: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment of Their Effectiveness
*Tomaso Duso (WZB)
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Discussant:
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Helen Weeds (University of Essex and CEPR)
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16.45-17.30
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A Taxonomy of International Competition Provisions
Peter Holmes (University of Sussex)
Henrike Müller (Competition Practitioner)
*Anestis Papadopoulos (Greek Competition Commission and London School of Economics)
Anna Sydorak (University of Sussex)
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Discussant:
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Mattias Ganslandt (IUI and University of Colorado)
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19.00
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Dinner
La Manufacture
Rue Notre Dame du Sommeil 12-20
1000 Bruxelles
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Saturday 10 December – Room 1
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09.00-11.45
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Vertical Relations, Parallel Trade
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09.00-09.45
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Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in
Integrated Markets
*Mattias Ganslandt (IUI and University of Colorado)
Keith E. Maskus (University of Colorado)
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Discussant:
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Sofronis Clerides (University of Cyprus and CEPR)
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09.45-10.30
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Parallel Trade, Price Discrimination, Investment and Price Caps
Stefan Szymanski (Imperial College London)
*Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Simona Fabrizi (Universidad del País Vasco and Université de Toulouse 1)
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-11.45
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Slotting Allowances and Conditional Payments
*Patrick Rey (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and CEPR)
Jeanine Thal (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)
Thibaud Vergé (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and University of Southampton)
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Discussant:
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Lucy White (Harvard Business School, Université de Lausanne and CEPR)
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11.45-13.00
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Plenary Session: What Next For Research on International Competition Policy and Inter-Firm Rivalry in International Markets?
Chair: Simon J Evenett (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Frédéric Jenny (Chairman, OECD Competition Committee, ESSEC, and Cour de Cassation, France)
Kirti Mehta (European Commission)
Mark Williams (NERA)
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-16.00
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Platforms
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14.30-15.15
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How and When Markets Tip: An Empirical Investigation
*Estelle Cantillon (ECARES, Harvard Business School and CEPR)
Pai-Ling Yin (Harvard Business School)
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Discussant:
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tbc
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15.15-16.00
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Platform Ownership
Volker Nocke (University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania and CEPR)
Martin Peitz (Universität Mannheim)
*Konrad O. Stahl (Universität Mannheim and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University)
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16.00-16.15
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Coffee Break
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16.15-17.30
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Innovation, Development
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16.15-17.00
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Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization
Patrick Legros (ECARES and CEPR)
*Andrew Newman (University College London and CEPR)
Eugenio Proto (University of Warwick)
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Discussant:
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Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (LSE, University of Geneva and CEPR)
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17.00-17.45
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Pehr-Johan Norbäck
*Lars Persson (IUI and CEPR)
Jonas Vlachos (IUI and CEPR)
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Discussant:
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Frédéric Jenny (Chairman, OECD Competition Committee, ESSEC, and
Cour de Cassation, France)
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Saturday 10 December - Room 2
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09.00-11.45
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Fostering International Competition
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09.00-09.45
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Eager to Ink, But Ready to Act? RTA Proliferation and International Co-operation on Competition Policy
*Lucian Cernat (UNCTAD)
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Discussant:
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Georges Siotis (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR)
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09.45-10.30
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Conformity with International Recommendations on Merger Reviews: An Economic Perspective on 'Soft Law'
*Simon J Evenett (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Alexander Hijzen (University of Nottingham)
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Discussant:
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Oliver Budzinski (University of Marburg)
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-11.45
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The Effectiveness and Impediments for Bi-Lateral Approaches to Anti-Trust Enforcement and Implications for
Multilateral Co-operation
Paper 1
Paper 2
Peter Holmes (University of Sussex)
James H Mathis (University of Amsterdam)
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Discussant:
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Robert Anderson (World Trade Organisation)
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11.45-13.00
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Plenary Session: What Next For Research on International Competition Policy and Inter-Firm Rivalry in International Markets?
Chair: Simon J Evenett (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Frédéric Jenny (Chairman, OECD Competition Committee, ESSEC, and
Cour de Cassation, France)
Kirti Mehta (European Commission)
Mark Williams (NERA)
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-16.00
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Adopting Competition Laws
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14.30-15.15
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Factors Accounting for the Enactment of a Competition Law - an Empirical Analysis
*Franz Kronthaler (Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung Halle)
Johannes Stephan (Institute for Economic Research)
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Discussant:
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Alexander Hijzen (University of Nottingham)
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15.15-16.00
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Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Adoption of Competition Law in Poland. Implications for Developing Countries
Andrzej Cylwik (CASE)
Krzysztof Kowalczyk (CASE)
Wojciech Szymczak (Office for Competition and Consumer Protection)
Adam Zolnowski (Office for Competition and Consumer Protection)
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Discussant:
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Steffen Lippert (Université de Toulouse 1)
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16.00-16.15
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Coffee Break
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16.15-17.00
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Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Adoption and Evolution of Competition law in Ukraine. Implications for Developing Countries
*Malgorzata Jakubiak (CASE)
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Discussant:
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Carmine Ornaghi (IDEI and University of Southampton)
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17.00-17.45
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Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Adoption and Evolution of Competition Law in South Africa.
Implications for Developing Countries
*Adám Török (University of Veszprém and Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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Discussant:
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Jeanine Thal (Université Toulouse 1)
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* denotes speaker
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Each session will include time for questions and comments from participants.
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Organizers:
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Simon J Evenett (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
Marc Ivaldi (EHESS, IDEI and CEPR)
Patrick Legros (ECARES and CEPR)
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