Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - School of Business and Economics

Workshop 2012 (Toulouse)

Workshop
 

“Market Power in Vertically Related Markets”

 

Toulouse, June 28-29, 2012

 

Program

 

Organized by:
Stéphane Caprice, TSE, GREMAQ-INRA

 

Contact:
Christelle Fauchié
Olivia Vongsavath

 

Email :
seminaire_MPinVRM@tse-fr.eu

 

Venue :
Université Sciences Sociales
Toulouse I
Manufacture des Tabacs
Building S, MS 003,
1 Rue des Amidonniers
31000 Toulouse

 


Speakers have 40 minutes, discussants 15 minutes, remaining time for open questions

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012

 

08:30-09:00

Registration, Coffee and Welcome

 

09:00-11:00 Session I

Eric Avenel (Université de Rennes I, CREM) and Clémence Christin (Dusseldorf
Institute for Competition Economics, DICE)

Equilibrium Strategic Overbuying

Discussant: Markus Reisinger (WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management)

 

Joao Montez (London Business School)

How Buybacks Eliminate Opportunism in Vertical Contracting

Discussant: Wilfried Sand-Zantman (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:30 Session II

Martin Pollrich (Humbolt University) and Lilo Wagner (DIW Berlin)

Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

Discussant: Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

12:30-14:00
Lunch

 

14:00-16:00 Session III

Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne) and Markus Reisinger (WHU-Otto
Beisheim School of Management)


Market Structure and the Competitive Effects of Vertical Integration

Discussant: Fabian Bergès (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

Johan Hombert (HEC Paris), Jérôme Pouyet (Paris School of Economics, Ecole
Polytechnique) and Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)

Anticompetitive Vertical Merger Waves

Discussant: Marie-Laure Allain (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST)

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30-18:30 Session IV

Marie-Laure Allain (Ecole Polytechnique), Claire Chambolle (Ecole Polytechnique,
INRA) and Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics, IDEI, GREMAQ)

 

Category captains

Discussant: Thibaud Vergé (Autorité de la Concurrence)

 

Salvatore Piccolo (University of Milano) and Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of
Rochester)


Colluding through Suppliers


Discussant: Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

20:00

Dinner “Les Arcades”

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

 

09:00-11:00 Session V

Mathias Hunold (ZEW, Mannheim), Lars-Hendrick Röller (German Federal
Chancellery) and Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim)

Backwards Integration and Strategic Delegation

Discussant: Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) and Volker Nocke (University of
Mannheim)

Vertical Integration, Foreclosure and Multilateral Relations

Discussant: Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)

 

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:30 Session VI

Stephen Hansen (UPF, Barcelona GSE) and Massimo Motta (UPF, Barcelona GSE)

“The Logic of Vertical Restraints, revisited”(abstract/slides)

Discussant: Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

12:30-14:00
Lunch

 

14:00-16:00 Session VII

Isabel Teichmann (DIW, Berlin) and Vanessa von Schlippenbach (DICE, Dusseldorf
and DIW, Berlin)

The solution of the Opportunism in Multi-Tier Industrie

Discussant: Claude Crampes (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

Béatrice Pagel (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, DICE) and
Christian Wey (Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, DICE)

Domestic and Cross-border Mergers in Unionized Oligopoly

Discussant: Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)