Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - School of Business and Economics

Workshop 2011 (Paris)


Workshop on

“Market Power in Vertically Related Markets”

 

February 3 and 4, 2011

 

INRA, 147 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris

 

 

Program

 

 

Thursday, February 3, 2011

 

 

09:00 – 09:30         Registration & Coffee

                            

 

09:30 – 11:30         Chair: Patrick Rey

                             Konrad Stahl and Lars-Hendrik Röller

                             Ownership and Control in Vertically Related Industries

                             Discussant: Roland Strausz

                             Eric Avenel

                             Suppliers’ Merger and Consumers’ Welfare

                             Discussant: Joao Montez

 

11:30 –12:00          Coffee Break

 

12:00 – 13:00      

                             Clémence Christin

                             Collusive Strategic Buying of a Necessary Input

                             Discussant: Laurent Linnemer

 

13:00 – 14:30         Lunch

 

14:30 – 16:30         Chair: Stéphane Caprice

                             Tommaso Valletti and Anna Rita Bennato

                             Pharmaceutical Innovation and Parallel Trade

                             Discussant: Emeric Henry

                             Marie-Laure Allain, Emeric Henry and Margaret Kyle

                             Inefficiencies in technology transfer: Theory and empirics

                             Discussant: Patrick Rey

 

16:30 – 16:45         Coffee Break

 

16:45 – 17:45       

                             Zhijun Chen and Greg Shaffer

                             Naked Exclusion with Minimum-Share Requirements

                             Discussant: Massimo Motta

 

20:00                     Dinner at Tour Montparnasse

 

  

Friday, February 4, 2011

 

 

09:00 – 11:00         Chair: Massimo Motta

                             Chrisovalantou Milliou

                             Vertical Integration and Decreasing Rival’s Cost

                             Discussant: Stéphane Caprice

                             Markus Reisinger and Emanuele Tarantino

                             Vertical Integration with Complementary Inputs

                             Discussant: Nicolas Schutz

 

11:00 – 11:15         Coffee Break

 

11:15 – 12:15         

                             Stephen Hansen and Massimo Motta

                             Foreclosure Under Risk Aversion

                             Discussant: Nikos Vettas

 

12:15 – 13:45         Lunch

 

13:45 – 15:45         Chair: Roland Strausz

                             Vanessa von Schlippenbach and Isabel Teichmann

                             The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Vertical Chains

                             Discussant: Ozlem Bedre

                             Fabian Herweg and Daniel Müller

                             Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private

                             Information

                             Discussant: Frago Kourandi

 

15:45 – 16:00         Coffee Break


16:00 – 17:00        

                             Christian Wey and Justus Haucap

                             Input Price Discrimination (Bans), Entry and Welfare

                             Discussant: Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda