Monday June 12
08.50-09.00 WELCOME
09.00-10.30 Law and economics (room Ragnar)
Alexis Stevenson, Tuomas Takalo and Otto Toivonen*
"The incentive and welfare effects of the European unitary patent"
Discussant: Johan Stennek (johan.stennek@economics.gu.se)
Jan Bouckaert and Johan Stennek*
"Conflicts of interest, ethical standards, and competition in legal services"
Discussant: Johan Callermo (johan.callermo@phdstudent.hhs.se)
Johan Callermo*
"Case law in European merger control"
Discussant: Mats Bergman (mats.bergman@sh.se)
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.45 Passenger transport (room Ragnar)
Anantha Divakaruni and Paula Navarro*
"Input technology and airline pricing"
Discussant: Miika Heinonen (miika.heinonen@kkv.fi)
Riku Buri, Miika Heinonen*, Jonatan Kanervo and Joel Karjalainen
"The effects of entry deregulation: Evidence from passenger transport"
Discussant: Paula Navarro (paula.navarro@nhh.no)
10.45-11.45 Energy markets (room Torsten)
Lisa Ryan and Ewa Lazarczyk*
"Integrating European electricity markets – Does it make a difference?"
Discussant: Giacomo Benini (giacomo.benini@nhh.no)
Giacomo Benini*, Adam Brandt, Valerio Dotti, Hassan El-Houjeiri and Wolf Fichtner
"The environmental consequences of the petroleum industry extensive margin"
Discussant: Ewa Lazarczyk (ewalazarczyk@ru.is)
12.00-13.15 Lunch at Hotell Birger Jarl
13.30-15.00 Platforms and infrastructure (Ragnar)
Charlotte Bjørnhaug Evensen and Atle Haugen*
"The impact of targeting technologies and consumer multi-homing on digital platform competition"
Discussant: Jiekai Zhang (jiekai.zhang@hanken.fi)
Jiekai Zhang*
"Welfare analysis of regulations on media platform advertising"
Discussant: Matilda Orth (matilda.orth@ifn.se)
Florin Maican and Matilda Orth*
"Measuring the dynamic effects of buiding fast broadband infrastructure"
Discussant: Atle Haugen (atle.haugen@bi.no)
13.30-15.00 Natural resources (Torsten)
Geert Van Moer*
"Horizontal agreements about the use of a natural resource"
Discussant: Fridrik Baldursson (fmb@ru.is)
Fridrik Mar Baldursson* and Nils-Henrik von der Fehr
"Natural resources and sovereign expropriation with moral hazard"
Discussant: Johannes Mauritzen (johannes.mauritzen@ntnu.no)
Johannes Mauritzen*
"Drill! Maybe. Drill? The effects of competition and industry microstructure on petroleum drilling: Evidence from the Norwegian Continental Shelf"
Discussant: Geert Van Moer (geert.vanmoer@hanken.fi)
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.45 Market performance (Ragnar)
Jan Jääskeläinen, Samuli Leppälä and Anni Väättänen*
"Effects of taxi market deregulation: Evidence from a natural experiment"
Discussant: Øystein Foros (oystein.foros@nhh.no)
Per Hjertstrand and Thomas Tangerås*
"Nonparametric tests for perfect competition - With an application to the Nordic wholesale electricity market"
Discussant: Nils Henrik M. von der Fehr (nhfehr@econ.uio.no)
Øystein Foros*, Richard Friberg, Hans Jarle Kind, Greg Shaffer and Frode Steen
"Media attention and price competition: Evidence from Norwegian grocery retailing"
Discussant: Anni Väättänen (anni.vaattanen@kkv.fi)
15.15-16.45 Finance and markets (Torsten)
Tove Forsbacka*
"How do common owners coordinate - Is it the proxy advice industry?"
Discussant: Yingjie Qui (yq.fi@cbs.dk)
David Granlund* and Niklas Rudholm
"Calculating the probability of collusion based on observed price patterns"
Discussant: Tove Forsbacka (tove.forsbackakarlsson@phdstudent.hhs.se)
Niklas Amberg, Tor Jacobsen and Yingjie Qi*
"Financing trade credit"
Discussant: David Granlund (david.granlund@umu.se)
18:30 Dinner at restaurant Himlen
Tuesday June 13
09.00-10.30 Competition and procurement (Ragnar)
Samielle Drake* and Fei Xu
"Regulation and competition in public procurement"
Discussant: Emil Mathias Strøm Halseth (emil.halseth@nhh.no)
Susmita Baulia*, Jan Jääskeläinen, Janne Tukiainen and Joosua Virtanen
"Centralized public procurement and favoritism"
Discussant: Samielle Drake (samielle.drake@umu.se)
Emil Mathias Strøm Halseth*
"Competition and grocery retail formats: Empirical evidence from a horizontal acquisition in Norway"
Discussant: Milla Hägg (milla.hagg@helsinki.fi)
09.00-10.30 Pricing of retail markets (Torsten)
Tyra Merker*
"Explaining uniform pricing in retail markets - The role of consumer self-sorting"
Discussant: Alina Ozhegova (alina.ozhegova@nhh.no)
Alina Ozhegova*
"Assortment choice and market power under uniform pricing"
Discussant: Tuomas Markkula (tuomas.markkula@aalto.fi)
Hanna Lindström*
"Price transmission for organic and conventional milk products in Sweden"
Tyra Merker (t.merker@uva.nl)
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.45 Vertical relations (Ragnar)
Fredrik Andersson*
"The cost-vs.-quality tradeoff in make-or-buy decisions"
Discussant: Malin Arve (malin.arve@nhh.no)
Malin Arve*, Øystein Foros, Hans Jarle Kind
"Business-to-business negotiations with outside options"
Discussant: Fredrik Andersson (fredrik.andersson@nek.lu.se)
10.45-11.45 Empirical analysis of markets (Torsten)
Christophe Bellégo and Andreea Enache*
"Congestion and Market Expansion: Timing of New Movie Releases in Paris Theaters"
Discussant: Florin Maican (maicanfg@gmail.com)
Erik Lundin*
"Wind power approval, decentralization and NIMBYism: Evidence from the Swedish greens"
Discussant: Joakim Wikström (joakim.wikstrom@aalto.fi)
12.00-13.15 Lunch at Hotell Birger Jarl
13.30-15.00 Health and IO (Ragnar)
Mika Kortelainen, Jaakko Markkanen*, Markku Siikanen and Otto Toivanen
"The effects of price regulation on pharmaceutical expenditure and availability"
Discussant: Aljoscha Janssen (ajanssen@smu.edu.sg)
Enrico Maria Camarda*
"Welfare effects of outcome-based prices in the English national healthcare"
Discussant: Jaakko Markkanen (jaakko.m.markkanen@aalto.fi)
Aljoscha Janssen*
"Product variety and alcohol purchases"
Discussant: Enrico Maria Camarda (enricomaria.camarda@kuleuven.be)
13.30-15.00 Market theory (Torsten)
Edward Andersson and Pär Holmberg*
"Multi-unit auctions with uncertain supply and single-unit demand"
Discussant: Topi Mietinen (topi.miettinen@hanken.fi)
Jacopo Bizzotto*, Toomas Hinnosaar and Adrien Vigier
"The limits of commitment"
Discussant: Pär Holmberg (par.holmberg@ifn.se)
Fabio Michelucci and Topi Miettinen*
"Markets for persuasive information"
Discussant: Jacobo Bizotto (jacopo.bizzotto@oslomet.no)