Fourth CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization

Hosted by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Leuven, 29-31 May 2003

 

Thursday 29 May
Session: Demand and Applications
09.10 – 10.10	Demand Models for Market Level Data - [PDF 435 kb] *Peter Davis (London School of Economics)
10.40 – 11.40	The Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Used Automobiles - [PDF 268 kb] *Sofronis K Clerides (University of Cyprus)
11.40 – 12.40	An Empirical Model of Shopping Costs and Differentiated Stores Estimated with Micro Data - [PDF 153 kb] *Howard Smith (Oxford University and CEPR)
14.00 – 15.00	Consistent Welfare Analysis When Some Heterogeneity is Unobserved - [PDF 308 kb] *Amil Petrin (University of Chicago)
Session: Dynamics
15.30 – 16.30	Firm Turnover in Imperfectly Competitive Markets - [PDF 680 kb] *Marcus Asplund (London Business School and CEPR) Volker Nocke (University of Pennsylvania)
16.30 – 17.30	Dynamic Oligopoly with Asymmetric Information: Numerical Analysis - [PDF 131 kb] *Chaim Fershtman (Tel-Aviv University) Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
Friday 30 May
Session: Industry Studies
09.00 – 10.00	Competition and Efficiency in European Aiviation - [PDF 163 kb] *Philippe Gagnepain (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Pedro L Marín Uribe (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR)
10.30 – 11.30	Market Power and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Electricity Industry - [PDF 1,057 kb] *Matilde Machado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Kai-Uwe Kühn (University of Michigan and CEPR)
11.30 – 12.30	Price Wars and Collusion in the Spanish Electricity Market - [PDF 475 kb] *Natalia Fabra (Université de Toulouse 1) Juan Toro (Oxford University)
Session: Competition Policy
14.00 – 15.00	Demand and Prices in the Work Group Server Market - [PDF 736 kb] *John Van Reenen (University College London and CEPR)
15.30 – 16.30	The Political Economy of European Merger Control: Evidence Using Stock Market Data - [PDF 475 kb] Tomaso Duso (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)) Damien J Neven (Graduate Institute of International Studies and CEPR) *Lars-Hendrik Röller (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and CEPR)
16.30 – 17.30	Vertical Integration and Horizontal Expansion - [PDF 489 kb] Stefan Buhler (Univeristyof Zurich and University of St Gallen) *Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich and CEPR)
Saturday 31 May
Session: Pricing/ Pricing and Consumer Learning
09.00 – 10.00	Ain’t it “Suite”? Strategic Bundling in the PC Office Software Market Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University and CEPR) *Sarit Markovich (University of Chicago)
10.30 – 11.30	Consumer learning about Experience Goods: Evidence from an Online Grocer - [PDF 316 kb] *Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University) Ron Goettler Eric Wolff
11.30 – 12.30	Learning Temporal Preferences - [PDF 235 kb]  *Eugenio J Miravete (University of Pennsylvania and CEPR) Ignacia Palacios Huerta (Brown University)
Rappporteurs:	Randy Brenkers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Jan De Loecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Stijn Kelchtermans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Elissavet Lykogianni (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Bart Van de Wielle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Organizers:	Patrick van Cayseele (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Frank Verboven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Reinhilde Veugelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)