Fourth CEPR School on Applied Industrial Organisation

Imperfect Competition and Dynamics in the New Economy
Hosted by Banco de España
Supported by
Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme
Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business School
CNE Spanish Energy Commission

Tarragona, 23-24 May 2007

Programme

Wednesday 23 May

 
13.45 Welcome

 
14.00 Stock-Based Compensation and Managerial Myopia
Stefano Sacchetto (London Business School)

 
14.30 Competition in Matching Technologies: Employment Agencies Do Not Play Dice
Thomas Trégouët (CREST-LEI)

 
15.00 Expected Sunk Costs and Entry
Gorm Grønnevet (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

 
15.30 Coffee Break

 
15.45 Using Production Function Estimates to Measure the Impact of Outsourcing: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms
Alberto López Sebastián (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

 
16.15 Vertical FDI versus Outsourcing: The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity
Arti Grover (University of Delhi)

 
16.45 A Pure Characteristics Model of Demand for Cars
Oyvind Thomassen (University of Oxford)

 
17.15 Coffee Break

 
17.30 Universal Telecommunication Service: an Empirical Analysis of the Indian Market
Sara Biancini (Université de Toulouse)

 
18.00 Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India
Juan Pablo Rud (London School of Economics)

 
18.30 End

 
Thursday 24 May

 
09.00 Investment and R&D in a Dynamic Equilibrium with Incomplete Information
Carlos Santos (London School of Economics)

 
09.30 Claiming More: the Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
Nicolas Van Zeebroeck (ULB, Solvay Business School)

 
10.00 Coffee Break

 
10.15 Pricing Strategies in Software Platforms: Video Consoles vs. Operating Systems
María Fernanda Viecens Trocello (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

 
10.45 Promotional Piracy
Karen Croxson (University of Oxford)

 
11.15 The Effects of Detailing on Prescribing Decisions under Quality Uncertainty
Masakazu Ishihara (University of Toronto)

 
11.45 End of the School

 
12.00-13.00 Lunch

 
Organizers: Oscar Arce (Banco de España)
Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
Georges Siotis (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR)