Workshop 2009 (Toulouse)
Workshop
“Market Power in Vertically Related Markets”
Toulouse, March 16-17, 2009
Organized by:
Stéphane Caprice, TSE, GREMAQ-INRA
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Contact: Christelle Fauchié, e-mail : inraconf@cict.fr
Olivia Vongsavath, e-mail : olivia.vongsavath@toulouse.inra.fr |
Venue : Université Sciences Sociales Toulouse I Manufacture des Tabacs 21 Allée de Brienne Builiding F, 3rd Floor – Room MF 323 Toulouse |
Speakers have 40 minutes, discussants 15 minutes, remaining time for open questions
Monday, March 16th, 2009
13:00-13:30 Registration and Coffee
13:30-13:40 Introduction and Welcome by Patrick Rey (TSE, IDEI)
13:40-15:40 Session I Chair: Marie-Laure Allain
Pio Baake (DIW Berlin) and Vanessa Schlippenbach (DIW Berlin)
“Quality Uncertainty in Vertical Relations: Mutual Dependency Mitigates Inefficiencies”
Discussant: Jacques Crémer (TSE, IDEI)
Marie-Laure Allain (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique), Claire Chambolle (INRA-ALISS, Ecole Polytechnique) and Clémence Christin (Ecole Polytechnique)
“Downstream Competition, Exclusive Dealing and Upstream Collusion”
Discussant: Markus Reisinger (University of Munich)
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-18:10 Session II Chair: Claire Chambolle
Özlem Bedre (TSE, GREMAQ) and Stéphane Caprice (TSE, GREMAQ-INRA)
“Inefficient buyer mergers to obtain size discounts”
Discussant: Thibaud Vergé (CREST, LEI)
Claire Chambolle (INRA-ALISS, Ecole Polytechnique) and Sofia Villas-Boas (UC Berkeley)
“Buyer Power through Producers’ Differentiation”
Discussant: Doh-Shin Jeon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and TSE)
20:00 Dinner
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
08:30-10:30 Session III Chair: Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache
Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim) and Roland Strausz (Humboldt University, Berlin)
“Certification and exchange in vertically concentrated markets”
Discussant: Philippe Bontems (TSE, GREMAQ-INRA)
Fabian Bergès (TSE, GREMAQ-INRA) and Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache (TSE, GREMAQ-INRA)
“Is producing a private label counterproductive for a branded manufacturer?”
Discussant: Marie-Laure Allain (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Session IV Chair: Stéphane Caprice
Erik Fasten (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Dirk Hofmann (Humboldt University, Berlin)
“Two-sided Certification - the Market for Rating Agencies”
Discussant: Bruno Jullien (TSE, IDEI)
12:00-13:30 Lunch ME 001
13:30-15:30 Session V Chair: Vanessa Schlippenbach
Doh-Shin Jeon (Pompeu Fabra University and TSE) and Domenico Menicucci (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
“Bundling and Competition for Slots: On the Portfolio Effects of Bundling”
Discussant: Eric Avenel (Grenoble University)
Vanessa Schlippenbach (DIW Berlin) and Christian Wey (DIW Berlin)
“One-Stop Shopping Behavior and Upstream Merger Incentives”
Discussant: Claude Crampes (TSE, IDEI)
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:50 ANR-DFG Meeting MF323
Reserved for the members of the ANR-DFG project