Monday, June 23, 2025
10:00 - 10:30
Registration and welcome
10:30 - 11:30
Keynote 1
Andrew Rhodes
(Toulouse School of Economics)
"Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation"
11:30 - 11:50
Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:10
Session 1
Ricardo Ribeiro
(Católica Porto Business School)
"Estimating Oligopoly with Shareholder Voting Models"
Renaud Foucart
(University of Lancaster)
"Endogenous Formation of Optimal Teams"
13:10 - 14:10
Lunch
14:10 - 15:30
Session 2
Balázs Muraközy
(University of Liverpool)
"How Chinese Import Competition Shapes the Quantity and Types of Innovation by European Firms"
Luciana Nicollier
(University of Nottingham)
"Strategic Inefficiency in Investor-State Arbitration"
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 17:10
Session 3
Nicolas de Roos
(University of Liverpool)
"Negotiating Price Coordination"
Rajssa Mechelli
(Competition and Markets Authority)
"The state of UK Competition"
17:10 - 17:30
Break
17:30 - 18:30
Keynote 2
Howard Smith
(Oxford University)
"The Rise of the Discounters and its Impact on Concentration, Market Power and Welfare"
19:30
Dinner – TBA (by invitation)
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
9:00 - 10:20
Session 4
Rachel Griffith
(University of Manchester)
"The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium"
Dennis Rickert
(Mines Paris - PSL University)
"Without Strong Retailers, Consumers Do Not Benefit from Higher Minimum Wages. Empirical Evidence from U.S. Grocery Retailing"
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00
Session 5
David Rietzke
(University of Lancaster)
"Incentivizing variety in innovation contests with specialized suppliers"
Christopher Wilson
(University of Loughborough)
"Understanding Cost Pass-Through when Prices are Dispersed"
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20
Session 6
Vasudha Wattal
(University of Manchester)
"Too big to fail, too few to choose? Corporates, market concentration, and quality in England's specialised care sector"
Alan Crawford
(Competition and Markets Authority)
"Vodafone/3 merger analysis"
14:20 - 14:40
Coffee Break
14:40 - 16:00
Session 7
Chun Yi
(University of Hunan)
"Collusive Price Floors and Bounded Rationality: Evidence from China's Movie Industry"
Samir Doshi
(Competition and Markets Authority)
"Estimating geographical retail markets from card spending data"
16:00
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