Program of Parallel Sessions 1/24
Parallel sessions I - Friday - 09:00/10:30
A-Finance I Room 111 Elisabeth
Mueller How does owner´s exposure
to idiosyncratic risk influence the capital structure of private
companies?
Gerard Llobet and Javier
Suarez
Financing and the protection of innovators
Katerina Goldfain and Eugen Kovač
Financing of competing projects with venture capital
Arthur Fishman Financial intermediaries as
facilitators of reputation
formation in credit markets
B-Innovation Room 113 Maria Pluvia
Zuniga and Gautier Duflos
On the effects of market incumbency on innovative
behaviour in the pharmaceutical industry
Diana H. A.Tsai and K.Y.Jang
Empirical examination of the
Ex ante and Ex post determinants of the
ICT adoption
Paola Giuri, Matteo Ploner,
Francesco Rullani and Salvatore
Torrisi
Skills and openness of OSS projects:
implications for performance
Lars Wiethaus Preemptive absortive
capacity, the persistence of monopoly and
the copycat effect
C-Information and Product Quality Room 115 Jonas
Häckner and Astri Muren
Trademark protection and product differentiation
Michelle Sovinsky Goeree
Was Mr. Hewlett right? Mergers,
advertising and the PC industry
Jay Pil Choi, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
and Jae Nahm
Vaporware Eve Vanhaecht Endogenous switching costs
and competition between
institutes of higher education
D-Multinationals & FDI I Room 118 Rosa Forte
and António Brandão
Effects of adverse selection on multinational firm´s
decision where to subcontract
Carlo Altomonte and Enrico Pennings
Domestic plant productivity and
marginal spillovers from foreign direct
investment
Jie Ma Politics of competition for foreign direct
investment: a simple theory
René Belderbos, Kyoji Fukao and Tomoko Iwasa
Domestic and foreign R&D investment:
evidence from japonese
multinationals
Program of Parallel Sessions 2/24
E-Labour - Empirical Studies Room 135 Bernd Görzig,
Martin Gornig and
Axel Werwatz
Wage differentiation in East Germany: Non-Parametric
Analysis of the Wage Spread between Firms
Nicole Guertzgen
Rent-sharing: does the bargaining regime make a
difference? Theory and empirical
evidence
Kristiina Huttunen
The effect of foreign acquisition on
employment and wages: evidence from
Finnish establishments
David Marmet Employment growth of new firms. Which
factors influence post-entry
performance? An empirical
analysis based on Swiss firm data
F-Entry I Room 141 Andrea
Bonaccorsi, Cristina Rossi
and Silvia Giannangeli
Entry strategies under dominant standards. Hybrid business models in the Open
Source software industry
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda
The strategic role of asset specificity in shaping industry
structure
Michele Moretto and Gianpaolo
Rossini
Start-up entry strategies: employer
vs nonemployer firms
Christian Caravaglia
Transitional dynamics of
entry in presence of technological
knowledge chance
G-Regulation I Room 211 Henk Kox and
Arjan Lejour Regulatory heterogeneity as
obstacle for international services trade
Luigi Benfratello,
Alberto Iozzi and Paola Valbonesi
Privatisation, regulation and
productivity in the Italian motorway
industry
Ari Hyytinen and Otto Toivanen
Designing Markets Achim I. Czerny Price-cap regulation of
airports: single-till versus dual-
till
H-Advertising I Room 213 Maarten C.
W. Janssen and Marielle
C. Non
Advertising and consumer search in a duopoly model
Ingrid Königbauer
Advertising and generic market entry
C. Robert Clark
Advertising restrictions and
competition in the children´s breakfast
cereal industry
Toker Doganoglu and Daniel Klapper
Goodwill and dynamic
advertising strategies
Program of Parallel Sessions 3/24
I-Price regulation & Telecommunications Room 215 Pio Baake
and Kay Mitusch
Mobile phone termination charges with asymmetric
regulation
Ralf Dewenter and Justus
Haucap
The effects of regulating mobile
termination rates for asymmetric
networks
Carlo Cambini and Tommaso
Valletti
Information exchange and competition in
communications networks
Philippe Gagnepain and Pedro Pereira
Entry, costs reduction and competition in the Portuguese
mobile telephony industry
J-Pricing I Room 218 Christos
Cabolis, Sofronis Clerides, Ioannis
Ioannou and Daniel Senft
A textbook example of international price
discrimination
Sílvia Ferreira Jorge and Cesaltina
Pacheco Pires
Delivered versus mill nonlinear pricing in free entry markets
Céline Bonnet, Pierre Dubois
and Michel Simioni
Two-part tariffs versus linear pricing
between manufacturers and retailers: empirical
tests on diferentiated products markets
Tim Hazledine Oligopoly and price
discrimination: theory and
application to airline pricing
K-Agency Problems and Contracts Room 256 Marco A.
Haan, Bart Los and
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Choosing whether to observe: the strategic
benefits of a principal's inability to monitor the agent's project choice
Mikhail Drugov
Contracts with informational externalities
Simona Fabrizi and
Steffen Lippert
How much efficiency gains and price
reductions to put as ingredients into an efficiency defense? "Quanto basta?"
Rohan Pitchford and Christopher
M. Snyder
The identity of the generator in the problem of
social cost
L-Econometric Issues I Room 257 Szabolcs
Lőrincz Persistence effects in a
dynamic discrete choice model. Application to low-
end computer servers
Marc Ivaldi and Szabolcs
Lőrincz
A full equilibrium relevant market test:
application to computer servers
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and
Adelina Gschwandtner
The competitive environment
hypothesis revisited: nonlinearity,
nonstationarity and profit persistence
Jordi Jaumandreu and Jacques
Mairesse
Using price and demand
information to identify
production functions
Program of Parallel Sessions 4/24
M-Media I Room 258 Simon P.
Anderson and John
McLaren
Media mergers and media bias
Marcel Canoy and Richard
Nahuis
How do you prefer your sandwich? Public service
broadcasting and the quality of the news
Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen and
Lars Sørgard
Financing of media firms: does
competition matter?
Martin Peitz and Tommaso M.
Valletti
Content and advertising in the
media: pay-tv versus free-to-air
N-Growth Room 260 Ellen
Vanassche The impact of international
financial integration on industry growth
Ulrich Thiessen and Paul Gregory
Modelling the structural change of transition countries
Karen Pittel, Jean-Pierre
Amigues and Thomas Kuhn
Endogenous growth and recycling: a material balance
approach
Blandina Oliveira and
Adelino Fortunato
Firm growth and liquidity
constraints: a dynamic analysis
Parallel sessions II - Friday - 11:00/12:30
A-Finance II Room 111 Dirk
Czarnitzki and Kornelius
Kraft
Capital control, debt financing and innovative
activity
Dirk Engel and Diana
Heger
Return-orientation of venture capital companies and its
importance for venture-backed firm performance in the
early stage: empirical evidence
for Germany
Fabio Bertoni and Luca
Grilli
The causality relationship between
external private equity financing and
the growth of new technology-based
firms
B-Innovation/R&D Room 113 Gianluca
Femminis and Gianmaria
Martini
Does it pay to innovate first? A dynamic duopoly with
R&D spillovers
Juan A. Máñez-
Castillejo, María E. Rochina-
Barrachina, Amparo
Sanchis-Llopis and Juan A.
Sanchis-Llopis
Why do some fims persistently perform
R&D activities?
Marc Escrihuela-
Villar
Innovation and market concentration
with asymmetric firms
Alberto López Estimation of a production
function considering the
possibility of production
subcontracting
Program of Parallel Sessions 5/24
C-Technology I Room 115 Thomas
Åstebro, Massimo G.
Colombo and Raffaello Seri
The diffusion of complementary technologies:
an empirical test
Ingrid Henriksen and Morten Hviid
Diffusion of new technology and
complementary best practice: a case study
Massimo G. Colombo and
Luca Grilli
What makes a "gazelle" in high-tech
sectors? A study on founders´human
capital and access to external financing
Ari Hyytinen and Otto Toivanen
Income inequality and
technology diffusion
D-Multinationals & FDI II Room 118 Rossitsa
Kotseva and Nikolaos Vettas
Foreing direct investment and exports dynamics with
learning about demand
Fabrice Defever
Functional specialisation and
the location of multinational firms
in the enlarged Europe
Sotiris K. Papaioannou
FDI and ICT innovation effects on productivity growth:
a comparison between developing
and developed countries
Jaime F. Campos
Choice of product quality
by domestic firms under the
presence of multinational corporations
E-Labour I Room 135 Sander
Onderstal Bidding for the unemployed: an application of mechanism
design to welfare-to-work programs
Elena Cefis and Roberto
Gabriele
Does disaggregation matter in job creation and
destruction flows?
Michaela Niefert
The impact of self-employment
experience on wages and the risk of unemployment
Ana Mauleon and Vincent
Vannetelbosch
Market integration and strike activity
F-Entry II Room 141 Ralitza
Nikolaeva Factors influencing the
timing of entry to the online channel of traditional
retailers: the case of density dependence
Lander Beloqui and
José M. Usategui
Vertical differentiation and entry deterrence: a
reconsideration
Eugen Kováč Tying and entry deterrence in
vertically differentiated
markets
Sven-Olov Daunfeldt,
Matilda Orth and Niklas Rudholm
Entry into local retail food markets in
Sweden: a real options approach
Program of Parallel Sessions 6/24
G-Regulation II Room 211 Adriana
Hernandez Perez
Railway´s regulatory reform: assessing its impact on the
safety of services
Mario Pagliero
What is the objective of professional
licensing? Evidence from the US market
for lawyers
Giacomo Calzolari and Carlo Scarpa
Regulating a multiutility firm with scope economies: "all
that glitters is not gold"
John Kwoka The role of competition in
natural monopoly: costs,
public ownership, and
regulation
H-Advertising II Room 213 Alicia Barroso Advertising and consumer
choice: a model for Spanish automobile industry of the
90´s
Francesca Barigozzi, Paolo G.
Garella and Martin Peitz
Advertising and prices as signals of quality: competing against a renown
brand
Leonard I. Nakamura
Advertising, intangible assets, and
unpriced entertainment
Simon P. Anderson and Régis Renault
Negative advertising a new
product!
I-Telecommunications Room 215 Carlo
Capuano (Static) Non cooperative foreclosing or collusive
equilibria in the upstream roaming market are
sustainable even if there exist more incumbents: a model
on the MVNOs entry
Roberto Burguet
License allocation and performance in telecommunications
markets
Jordi Gual and Francesc Trillas
Telecommunications policies:
measurement and determinants
J-Pricing II Room 218 Doh-Shin
Jeon A simple access pricing rule
to achieve the Ramsey outcome in two-way access
Jean-Luc Netzer and
Jacques Thépot
Full cost pricing and market stucture
Babu Nahata, Serguei
Kokovin and Evgeny
Zhelobodko
Conditions for efficiency in package
pricing
Natalia Fabra Dynamic price competition with
consumer switching costs in vertically related
markets
Program of Parallel Sessions 7/24
K-Information, Incentives & Contracts Room 256 Ricardo
Gonçalves and António Gomes
Maintenance incentives in highway concession contracts
Marcelo Rezende
Reputation and manufacturing
flexibility
Michael Higl and Peter
Welzel
Intra-firm coordination and horizontal merger
Winand Emons and Nuno Garoupa
The economics of US-style
contigent fees and UK-style
conditional fees.
L-Econometric Issues II Room 257 Andrew
Ching, Mengzi Shi and Yupin
Yang
The impact of consumers´experimentation
behaviors on the firm´s optimal mailing policy
Fei Deng Measuring the substitution effects of sales promotions in supermarkets: an
analysis based on a dynamic model of
differentiated products
Graziano Abrate
Demand responsiveness under time-of-use pricing:
an application to Italian industrial
customers
Francesca Lotti Age, size and growth in services: a
broken mirror?
M-Media II Room 258 Ingo
Kohlschein Economic distortions caused
by public funding of broadcasting in Europe
Tobias Regner and Javier A.
Barria
Magnatune: variable pricing for music
David Bounie, Marc
Bourreau and Patrick
Waelbroeck
Pirates or explorers? Analysis of music consumption in
French graduate schools
N-Productivity & Growth Room 260 James H.
Love and Stephen Roper
Innovation, productivity and growth: an analysis of Irish
panel data
Jens J. Krüger Productivity dynamics and
structural change in the U.S.
manufacturing sector
Helmut Fryges Productivity, growth, and
internationalisation: the case of German
and British high techs
Rachel Griffith, Elena Huergo,
Jacques Mairesse and Bettina Peters
Innovation and productivity across four European countries
Program of Parallel Sessions 8/24
Parallel sessions III - Friday - 16:00/17:30
A-Governance & Financial Strategies Room 111 María Paz
Coscollá and Luis M. Granero
Profitable weak governance in retail banking
Linda A. Toolsema
Having more potential raiders
weakens the takeover threat
Klaus Gugler, Dennis C.
Mueller and B. Burcin
Yurtoglu
Corporate governance and the
determinants of investment
B-R&D - Empirical Evidence Room 113 Kris Aerts
and Dirk Czarnitzki
Using innovation survey data to evaluate R&D policy: the
case of Flanders
Wen-Cheng Lu, Jong-
Rong Chen and Chia-Ling
Wang
R&D, spatial spillovers and
productivity growth: evidence from dynamic panel
Mark Rogers R&D and productivity in the UK: evidence from
firm-level data in the 1990s
Alberto López Determinants for R&D
cooperation: evidence from
Spanish manufacturing
firms C-Technology II Room
115 Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek and
Christian Wey
The diffusion of barcode scanning in European
retailing
Mariacristina Piva, Enrico
Santarelli and Marco
Vivarelli
Technological and organizational
changes as determinants of the skill bias: evidence
from the Italian machinery industry
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler
The timing of a new technology adoption:
the case of MRI
D-Multiproduct and Multimarket Firms Room 118 Ulrich
Doraszelski and Michaela
Draganska
Market segmentation strategies of multiproduct
firms
Giulio Bottazzi and
Angelo Secchi
An empirically based model of firm diversification
Annalisa Luporini
Relative performance evaluation in a multi-
plant firm
Rafael Moner-Colonques and
José J. Sempere-Monerris
Multiproduct firm competition under horizontal
and vertical differentiation
Program of Parallel Sessions 9/24
E-Labour II Room 135 Yannis M.
Ioannides and Adriaan R. Soetevent
Employment in a social network with arbitrary
degree distribution
Anja Kuckulenz
and Thomas Zwick
The impact of training on earnings- differences between participant groups
Eduardo Melero Martin
Why do firms sponsor education?
An analysis based on labour market
competition
F-Entry & Exit Decisions Room 141 Laura Vartia Establishing and closing
down plants - assessing the effects of firms' financial
status
Roberto Fontana and Lionel Nesta
Product entry in a fast growing
industry: the LAN switch market
Gianni Amisano and Maria Letizia
Giorgetti
The dynamics of firms' entry and diversification: a
Bayesian panel probit approach. A cross-
country analysis
António Marques and
António Brandão
Exit decision under input cost
and revenue uncertainty
G-Regulation III Room 211 Giovanni
Fraquelli and Valentina
Moiso
Cost efficiency and scale economies in the Italian
water industry
Patrick J. G. Van Cayseele
Complemantary platforms: the
provision of custody for internationally
diversified investors
Richard Nahuis, and
Joëlle Noailly
Competition and quality in the notary
profession
Gianni De Fraja and Alberto
Iozzi
Bigger and better: A dynamic
regulatory mechanism for
optimum quality
H-Consumer Economics Room 213 Chris M.
Wilson and Catherine Waddams
Price
Consumer switching errors: when more firms may mean
less benefit
Luiz Rangel Should I stay or should I go?: The determinants of
consumer´s decision to switch suppliers
Matthijs R. Wildenbeest,
José Luis Moranga-
González and Zsolt Sándor
Maximum likelihood estimation of a
consumer search model
Bart J. Bronnenberg,
Sanjay K. Dhar and Jean-Pierre
Dubé
Endogenous sunk costs and the geographic distribution of
brand shares in consumer
package goods industries
Program of Parallel Sessions 10/24
I-Air Transportation Room 215 Alessandro V.
M. Oliveira The impacts of liberalization
on competition on an air shuttle market
Alessandro Gavazza
Leasing and secondary markets: theory and evidence
from commercial aircraft
Enrico Bachis and Claudio
Piga
Do prices grow more in Euro-land?
Evidence from the airline industry
Federico Ciliberto
Sequential entry and strategic
deterrrence in the airline industry
J-Market Structure Room 218 Marcella
Scrimitore Exogenous and endogenous set-up costs in markets with
customized products
Jeroen Hinloopen
The creation of Stackelberg
leadership through product bundling
Raquel Lago González and Vicente Salas
Fumás
Market power and bank interest rate
adjustments
Robert F. Owen Sunk costs, "News" and
economic methodology
K-Firm Strategies Room 256 Kay Mitusch
and Andreas Brenck
Innovation and entry deterrence in an
open access network
Manuel García Goñi
Risk sharing and risk adjustment strategies
to deal with health plan selection and
efficiency
Anette Boom "Download for free" - when do
providers of digital goods
offer free samples?
L-Non-profit Organizations Room 257 Celestine
Chukumba and Richard
Jensen
University invention, entrepreneurship, and start-
ups
Susanne Warning and Peter Welzel
A note on grade inflation and
university competition
Massimo G. Colombo and
Evila Piva
Are academic start-ups different? A
matched pair analysis
Nicola Lacetera Different missions and commitment
power: an institutional view
of Industry -University relations
M-Location I Room 258 Emanuele
Bacchiega and Antonio Minniti
Location in a vertically differentiated industry
Georg Götz Location, technology and competitive
strategy
Nicholas Economides, Jamie Howell
and Sergio Meza
Does it pay to be the first? Sequential
locational choice and foreclosure
Program of Parallel Sessions 11/24
N-Firm Productivity Room 260 Mariyan
Rizov and Patrick Paul
Walsh
Firm level productivity and international trade: evidence
from the structural estimation of production
functions within UK manufacturing industries
Michele Cincera and
Patrick Waelbroeck
Product market competition and R&D intensity: Evidence from
Belgian firm-level data
Elina Berghäll Productivity in Finnish ICT firms during the 1990´s
Susana Iranzo, Fabiano
Schivardi and Elisa Tosetti
Skill dispersion and productivity: an analysis with
matched data
Parallel sessions IV - Saturday - 09:00/10:30
A-Managerial Incentives Room 111 Stefan Beiner,
Markus Schmid and
Gabrielle Wanzenried
Product market competition, managerial incentives and
firm valuation
Florian Englmaier
A strategic rationale for having
overconfident managers
M. Pilar Socorro
Mergers and the limited liability effect
Kerstin Puschke The allocation of authority under limited liability
B-R&D I Room 113 Gamal
Atallah Conditional R&D subsidies Rahel Falk Behavioural
additionality effects of R&D- subsidies: empirical evidence
from Austria
Karl Aiginger and Martin
Falk
The dynamics of R&D investment in
OECD countries
C-Innovation & Technological Issues Room 115 Wladimir
Raymond, Pierre
Mohnen, Franz Palm
and Sybrand Schim van der
Loeff
The dynamics of the innovation process in Dutch manufacturing: a panel data
analysis
Stefan Lachenmaier
and Horst Rottmann
The effect of innovation on
employment: a panel analysis
Margrethe Aanesen, Rune Logstein and Ola Flaaten
Learning and spillovers in a mature industry under rapid external technological progress: the case of
the Norwegian frozen prawns industry
Elena Cefis, Stephanie
Rosenkranz and Utz Weitzel
Effects of acquisitions on
product and process
innovation and R&D
performance
Program of Parallel Sessions 12/24
D-Competition Issues I Room 118 Maria Jose
Gil Molto and Joanna Poyago-
Theotoky
Flexible vs Dedicate technologies in a mixed
duopoly
Marco A. Haan
The competitive effects of consumer
boycotts
Kristina Nyström
Interdependencies in the dynamics of firm
entry and exit
Arijit Mukherjee
Commitment and excess capacity: a
new look with licensing
E-Organization & Business Strategy I Room 135 Werner Bönte
and Lars Wiethaus
Knowledge disclosure among vertically related firms -
when it (not) occurs
Helena Holopainen
Monitoring ability, allocation of
authority, and choice of business strategy
Cristina Rossi and Andrea Bonaccorsi
Intrinsic motivations and profit-oriented
firms in Open Source software. Do firms practise what they
preach?
David Besanko, Ulrich
Doraszelski, Yaroslav
Kryukov and Marc
Satterthwaite
Learning-by-doing,
organizational forgetting, and
industry dynamics
F-Vertical Relations I Room 141 Fabian
Bergès-Sennou and
Claire Chambolle
The role of an inefficient producer in retailer´s buying
power
Stefan Buehler and
Armin Schmutzler
Intimidating competitors -
asymmetric vertical integration and
downstream investment in
oligopoly
Masayoshi Maruyama
and Kazumitsu Minamikawa
Vertical integration, bundling, and welfare
John Asker Diagnosing foreclosure due
to exclusive dealing
G-Antitrust Enforcement Room 211 Jeroen
Hinloopen and Adriaan R. Soetevent
An experimental investigation of the effects of
leniency programs for antitrust enforcement
Aldo Gonzalez Antitrust enforcement and the design of disclosure
rules. An application to merger control
Evgenia Motchenkova and Rob van
der Laan
Strictness of leniency programs and cartels of asymmetric firms
Vivek Ghosal The intertemporal path of U.S.
criminal antitrust
enforcement
Program of Parallel Sessions 13/24
H-Imperfect Competition I Room 213 Nikolaos
Georgantzís and Aurora
García-Gallego
Monopolistic product line competition with ex post consumer heterogeneity
Sergio Meza and Mihkel
Tombak
Firms are not all created equal:
location and price competition with cost
asymmetries
Timo Vesala Relationship lending and competition:
higher switching cost does not necessarily
imply greater relationship benefits
Krina Griva and Nikolaos Vettas
Price competition in a
differentiated products duopoly
under network effects
I-Utilities Room 215 Pablo
Arocena Scope, diversification and
scale economies in the electricity industry: a non-
parametric frontier approach
Joan Calzada Universal Service obligations in the
postal sector: endogenous quality
and coverage
Jürgen Apfelbeck,
Astrid Cullmann and Christian von Hirschhausen
Efficiency analysis of East european
electricity distribution utilities -
legacy of the past?
Raffaele Miniaci, Carlo
Scarpa and Paola Valbonesi
Restructuring Italian utility
markets: household
distributional effects
J-Collusion I Room 218 Heiko Gerlach Partial Communication and
Collusion with Demand Uncertainty
Yuanzhu Lu and Julian
Wright
Tacit collusion with price matching punishments
Eshien Chong and Fréddy
Huet
Yardstick competition,
franchise bidding and tacit collusion
K-Asymmetric Information I Room 256 Lilia Filipova
and Peter Welzel
Reducing asymmetric information in insurance markets: cars with black
boxes
Marc Bourreau and
Virginie Lethiais
Pricing information goods: free vs pay
content
Maxim Engers, Monica
Hartmann and Steven Stern
Automobile maintenance costs,
used cars and adverse selection
Paolo G. Garella and Emmanuel
Petrakis
Minimum quality standards and
consumers' information
Program of Parallel Sessions 14/24
L-Banking I Room 257 Karl-
Hermann Fisher and
Hannah Sabine
Hempell
Oligopoly and conduct in banking - an empirical
analysis
Thilo Pausch Credit risk, credit rationing, and the role of banks: the case of risk averse
lenders
José A. Novo Peteiro
Bank mergers and alliances in
differentiated markets
Dirk Engel and Torge
Middendorf
Firms´bank relationships and
cash-flow investment
sensitivities in Germany
M-Spillovers I Room 258 Shandre M.
Thangavelu and Sanja S. Pattnayak
Linkages, spillovers and foreign ownership: evidence
from the Indian pharmaceutical firms
Liza Jabbour and Jean
Louis Mucchielli
Foreign affiliates in the French
manufacturing industry: source or
recipient of technology spillovers?
Bernard Franck and Robert F.
Owen
Fundamental R&D spillovers and the
internationalization of a firm´s research
activities: an extension
René Belderbos, Elissavet
Lykogianni and Reinhilde Veugelers
Strategic R&D location by
multinational firms: spillovers,
technology sourcing and competition
N-Auctions I Room 260 René
Kirkegaard and Per Baltzer
Overgaard
Buy-out prices in auctions: seller competition and multi-
unit demand
Emiel Maasland and
Sander Onderstal
Auctions with financial
externalities
Sofia Lundberg
Auction formats and award rules in
Swedish procurement auctions
Gian Luigi Albano and Giancarlo Spagnolo
The collusive drawbacks of
sequential auctions
Parallel sessions V - Saturday - 11:00/12:30
A-Mergers I Room 111 Philippe Barla
and Christos Constantatos
On the choice between strategic alliance and merger in the airline sector: the role
of stategic effects
Christos D. Genakos
Differential merger effects: the case of
the personal computer industry
Michelle Haynes and
Steve Thompson
Mergers and market share: evidence from
the UK financial mutual sector
Marc Ivaldi and Jrissy Motis
Mergers as auctions
Program of Parallel Sessions 15/24
B-R&D II Room 113 John Beath,
Joanna Poyago-
Theotoky and David Ulph
University funding systems and their impact on research
and teaching: a general framework
Xulia González and Consuelo Pazó
Do public subsidies stimulate private R&D spending?
Pontus Braunerhjelm
New universities, new industries and
regional performance
Dirk Czarnitzki and Georg Licht
Additionality of public R&D grants in a transition
economy: the case of Eastern
Germany C-Patents & Intellectual Property Rights Room
115 Alfonso Gambardella,
Dietmar Harhoff and
Bart Verspagen
The value of patents S. Breschi, F. Lissoni and F.
Montobbio
From publishing to patenting: how to
become an academic inventor?
Marc Baudry and Béatrice
Dumont
Patents renewals as options: some
implications for intellectual property
right policy
Katrin Cremers Determinants of patent litigation
in Germany
D-Competition Issues II Room 118 Roberto
Hernán and Praveen Kujal
Market access and minimum quality standards
Lorenzo Zirulia
R&D networks with heterogenous firms
C.Dembour and Xavier Y.
Wauthy
Tax competition in the presence of network effects
E-Organization & Business Strategy II Room 135 Francisco
Requena -Silvente and
James Walker
The impact of exchange rate fluctuations on profit
margins: the UK car market, 1971-2002
Kristien Coucke, Enrico
Pennings and Leo
Sleuwaegen
Employee lay-off under different
modes of downsizing:exit,
downscale or relocate
Thomas Hempell and
Thomas Zwick
Technological use, organizational flexibility and
innovation: evidence for Germany
Patrick Van Cayseele and Christophe
Wuyts
Cost efficiency in the European
securities settlement and
safekeeping industry
F-Vertical Relations II Room 141 Arijit
Mukherjee and Piercarlo
Zanchettin
Vertical integration and product innovation
Benaissa Chidmi,
Rigoberto A. Lopez and Ronald W.
Cotterill
Vertical relationship in the ready-to-eat cereal market in
Boston
Stéphane Lemarié
Vertical integration and the licensing of
innovation with fixed fees or royalties
Patrick Rey, Jeanine Thal and Thibaud
Vergé
Slotting allowances and
conditional payments
Program of Parallel Sessions 16/24
G-Antitrust Room 211 João Vieira-
Montez Increasing prices and delays: have coasian dynamics gone
crazy?
Cyril Hariton and Gwenaël
Piaser
Efficiency defense: possible mitigating
effects in presence of imperfect
redistribution tools
Cesar Alejandro Hernandez
Alva
Competing with your provider: an
economic analysis of mergers in the
natural gas power generation sectors
Gorm Andreas Grønnevet
Pr(Cartel in Norway)
H-Imperfect Competition II Room 213 Jon Thor
Sturluson Price duopoly in a default service market with search
and switching costs
Bertrand Villeneuve
and Yanhua Zhang
Asymmetric duopoly in a differential game
of capacity accumulation
Thomas Gehrig and
Rune Stenbacka
Two at the top: quality
differentiation in markets with
switching costs
Ville Aalto-Setälä
The impact of generic
substitution on price competition
I-Electricity Markets Room 215 Daniel A.
Benitez and Claude
Crampes
The regulation of the transmission operation and the effects on the wholesale
electricity market
Anna Creti and Federica
Manca
Mandatory electricity contracts
as competitive device
Massimiliano Piacenza and
Davide Vannoni
Vertical and horizontal economies in the electric utility
industry: an integrated approach
Frode Steen Do bottlenecks generate market
power? An empirical study
of the Norwegian electricity
market
J-Collusion II Room 218 Giacomo
Calzolari and Giancarlo Spagnolo
Reputation and collusion in procurement
Luca Colombo and Paola
Labrecciosa
Sustaining collusion under economic
integration
Helder Vasconcelos
Sustaining collusion in growing markets
K-Asymmetric Information II Room 256 Marcelo
D´Amato, Riccardo
Martina and Salvatore Piccolo
Competitive pressures and managerial incentives with
asymmetric information
Tuvana Pastine
Comparative statics in an informational
cascade model of investment
Jean-Marc Bourgeon and
Bénédicte Coestier
Quality provision in decentralized
markets
Manfredi M. A. La Manna
The surprising benefits of a
parallel universe
Program of Parallel Sessions 17/24
L-Banking II Room 257 Andrew
Cohen and Michael J.
Mazzeo
Investment strategies and market structure: an
empirical analysis of bank branching decisions
Kim Kaivanto Relationship finance, informational rent, and observational
indistinguishability from short-termism
Marcello Bofondi and Francesca
Lotti
Innovation in the retail banking
industry: credit scoring adoption and
consequences on credit availability
Gianfranco Atzeni and
Claudio Piga
R&D investment, credit rationing
and sample selection
M-Spillovers II Room 258 Thierry Lafay Preemption race and
information spillovers in a quantity competition model
Álvaro Escribano,
Andrea Fosfuri and
Josep A. Tribo
Managing knowledge spillovers: the
impact of absorptive capacity on innovation
performance
Elisabetta Ottoz
Technological spillover and time
distribution of licenses
Frédéric Deroian
Cost-reducing alliances and
local spillovers
N-Auctions II Room 260 Sander
Onderstal The optimality of ignoring
lobbyists Jennifer
Brown and John Morgan
How much is a dollar worth? Arbitrage on
eBay and Yahoo
Karine Brisset and Pierre-
Henri Morand
Multistage auction with endogenous
entry: a rational for B2B auction practices
Raphaële Préget and Patrick Waelbroeck
A Timber appraisal from French public
auctions: How to set the reserve
price when there are unsold lots?
Parallel sessions VI - Saturday - 16:00/17:30
A-Mergers II Room 111 Manel Antelo
and Lluís Bru The welfare effects of
upstream mergers in the presence of downstream
entry barriers
Andrei Medvedev
Structural remedies in merger regulation
in a Cournot framework
Christos Cabolis,
Constantine Manasakis and
Emmanuel Petrakis
Mergers, acquisitions and firms' R&D
incentives
Chrysovalantou Milliou and Emmanuel
Petrakis
Upstream horizontal mergers,
bargaining, and vertical contracts
Program of Parallel Sessions 18/24
B-R&D III Room 113 Boris Lokshin The productivity effects of
internal and external R&D: evidence from a dynamic
panel data model
Bettina Peters The relationship between product and process innovations
and firm performance:
microeconometric evidence
Wolfgang Sofka
Global idea sourcing, at home: an empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources of
innovations
Pilar Beneito Fecundity of in-house and
contracted R&D in terms of radical vs
incremental innovations
C-Patents Room 115 Cédric
Schneider Fences and competition in
patent races Amalia
Yiannaka and Murray Fulton
Getting away with robbery? Patenting behavior with the
threat of infringement
Kurt R. Brekke and Odd Rune Straume
Patents: incentives for R&D or marketing?
D-International Trade I Room 118 Julian Emami
Namini Heterogeneous firms and dynamic gains from trade
Carlo Altomonte and Italo
Colantone
Microfunding regional disparities
through productivity dynamics
Michal Grajek Diffusion of ISO 9000 Standards and
international trade
E-Organization & Business Strategy III Room 135 Hans Zenger Successive Monopolies with
Endogenous Quality Staffan
Ringbom Ranking of
costumers in advance bookings
Saradindu Bhaduri and
Hagen Worch
Education, Experience and the cognitive capacity of entrepreneurs: some econometric evidence
from the Indian pharmaceutical
industry
Hiroshi Ohashi How does cannibalization affect the timing of new product introductions? Evidence from US video games.
Program of Parallel Sessions 19/24
F-Two-sided Markets Room 141 Mats A.
Bergman Two-sided network effects, bank interchange fees, and the allocation of fixed costs
Elena Argentesi and
Lapo Filistrucchi
Estimating market power in a two-sided market: the case of
newspapers
Jean J. Gabszewicz
and Xavier Y. Wauthy
Two-sided markets and price competition
with multi-homing
G-Competition and Regulation Room 211 Giorgio
Matteucci and Pierfrancesco
Reverberi
Regulatory commitment and international arbitrage
Keiichi Hori and Keizo
Mizuno
Promoting competition with
open access under uncertainty
Øystein Foros, Hans Jarle
Kind and Lars Sørgard
Managerial incentives and access
price regulation
Cécile Aubert and Jérôme
Pouyet
Incomplete regulation,
market competition ,and
collusion
H-Imperfect Competition III Room 213 Daniel
Cerquera Durable goods, innovation and network externalities
Derek W. Bunn and Augusto Rupérez Micola
Two markets and a weak link
Javier Gil-Bazo and
Pablo Ruiz-Verdú
When cheaper is better: fee
determination in the market for equity
mutual funds
Peter Møllgaard Competitive effects of state
aid in oligopoly
I-Energy Markets & Social Costs Room 215
Katrin Millock and
Céline Nauges
Energy price uncertainty and firm abatement investment
choice
Eirik S. Amundsen
and Gjermund
Nese
Market power in interactive
environmental and energy markets: the
case of Green Certificates
F. Gasmi, J.J. Laffont and J.
D. Oviedo
Controlling regional monopolies in the
natural gas industry - the complete
information case
J-Competition I Room 218 Paul W.
Dobson and Michael
Waterson
Price flexing and chain-store competition
Bernd Ebersberger
Does public R&D funding distort competition?
Helge Sanner Bertrand competition can yield higher
prices than monopoly
Steffen H. Hoernig
Bertrand equilibria and sharing rules
Program of Parallel Sessions 20/24
K-Experimental Economics Room 256 Daniela
Grieco and Robin M. Hogarth
Excess entry, ambiguity seeking, and competence: an experimental investigation
Enrique Fatás and Tibor
Neugebauer
Competition between teams vs. within a
team in team production
Mathias Drehmann,
Jörg Oechssler and Andreas
Roider
Herding with and without payoff
externalities - an internet experiment
Monika Friedrich-Nishio
Impact of behavioural factors on innovation
performance. An evolutionary
simulation model
L-Banking III Room 257 Yoonhee Tina
Chang Collective relationship
banking: private informations & monitoring
Luca Casolaro,
Dario Focarelli and
Alberto Franco Pozzolo
The pricing effect of certification on bank loans: evidence from the syndicated credit
market
Luca Colombo and Gilberto
Turati
Banking industry consolidation and macroeconomic
differences
Thomas Harr and Thomas
Rønde
Branch or subsidiary?
Capital regulation of multinational
banks
M-Location II Room 258 Ben Ferrett Entry, location and R&D
decisions in an international oligopoly
Fazia Pusterla and Laura
Resmini
Where do foreign firms locate in
transition countries? An empirical investigation
Franco Mariuzzo,
Patrick Paul Walsh and
Ciara Whelan
Embedding consumer taste for location into a structural model of
equilibrium
Néstor Duch The empirics of spatial
competition: evidence from
European regions
N-Productivity Issues Room 260 Thomas Fuchs
and Oliver Röhn
Leaders and laggards of German productivity growth
from 1970-2001: Did globalization change the
picture?
Can Huang Globalization and industry dynamics: a case of Guang Dong province and Hong
Kong, SAR in Southern China
John Thanassoulis
List prices, bargaining and
resultant productivity diffusion delay
David S. Saal and Scott Reid
Estimating Opex productivity
growth in English and
Welsh water and sewerage
companies: 1993-2003
Program of Parallel Sessions 21/24
Parallel sessions VII - Sunday - 09:00/10:30
A-Ownership Structure Room 111 Nigel
Driffield, Vidya
Mahambare and Sarmistha
Pal
How ownership structure affects capital structure and firm performance? Recent
evidence from East Asia
Bernd Ebersberger
and Hans Lööf
Innovation behaviour and productivity
performance in the Nordic Region. Does foreign ownership
matter?
B. Burcin Yurtoglu and Alfred Haid
Ownership structure and executive
compensation- the case of Germany
B-State Aid & Innovation Room 113 Juha
Kilponen and Torsten
Santavirta
On the relationship between product market competition,
innovations and R&D subsidies in Finland
Dirk Czarnitzki and Katrin Hussinger
The link between R&D subsidies, R&D
spending and technological performance
Tuomas Takalo, Tanja Tanayama and Otto Toivanen
Selection or self-rejection?
Applications into a treatment program:
the case of R&D subsidies
Hans Lööf and Almas Heshmati
The impact of public funding
on private R&D investment: new evidence from a
firm level innovation study
C-Licensing Room 115 Tetsuya
Shinkai, Satoru
Tanaka and Makoto
Okamura
Licensing and R&D investment of duopolistic
firms with partially complementary technologies
Yoshihito Yasaki
Licensing of essential patents by vertically-integrated firms and
research laboratories: patent
pools and compulsory licensing
Heli Koski OSS production and licensing strategies of
the software firms
Marc Bourreau and Pinar Doğan
Partial licensing of product innovations
Program of Parallel Sessions 22/24
D-International Trade II Room 118 Gjermund
Nese and Odd Rune Straume
Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in
successive oligopoly
Martina Lawless
Market coverage of firm-level export
activity
Koji Shinjo and Xingyuan
Zhang
International trade and technology
diffusion: evidence from U.S. patent
citation data
Silviano Esteve-Pérez, Juan A.
Máñez-Castillejo, María
E. Rochina-Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis-
LLopis
A survival analysis of
manufacturing firms in export
markets
E-Entrepreneurship Room 135 Manuel G.
Flores-Romero and
Robert Blackburn
Is entrepreneurship more about sticking with a firm, or
about running several of them? Evidence from novice
and serial entrepreneurs
Andrew Burke, Holger
Görg and Aoife Hanley
The survival of new ventures in dynamic versus static markets
Sandra Tavares Silva,
Mário Rui Silva and
Aurora A. C. Teixeira
Firm´s institutional behavior and
industry dynamics. An evolutionary
modeling proposal
Oliver Falck Survival chances of start-ups. Do
regional conditions
matter?
F-Networks Room 141 Axel Gautier Network financing with two-
part and single tariff Arthur
Fishman and Rafael Rob
Is bigger better? Costumer base
expansion through word of mouth
reputation
Bjørn Hansen Network competition when costs are heterogeneous
Ana Mauleon, Jose Sempere-Monerris and
Vincent Vannetelbosch
Networks of manufacturers and retailers
G-Competition policy Room 211 Tomaso Duso,
Klaus Gugler and B. Burcin
Yurtoglu
An empirical analysis of EU merger remedies
Giuseppe Colangelo and
Gianmaria Martini
Do recomended retail prices really benefit consumers? The role of buyer
power
Steffen Brenner
An empirical study of the European
corporate leniency program
Stephen Davies and Bruce Lyons
EC merger remedies:
consequences for competition
Program of Parallel Sessions 23/24
H-Monopoly Strategies Room 213 C. Christian
von Weizsäcker
Rebating systems and abuse of a dominant position
Lluís Bru, Ramon Faulí-Oller and Joel
Sandonís
Selling methods by a monopolist
Pio Baake and Christian Wey
Spatial price discrimination, buyer
mobility, and coordinated effects of
mergers
I-Environmental Economics Room 215 Randy
Brenkers Introducing an emission
reducing policy in the European car market
Florent J.-A. Pratlong
International competitiveness and strategic distribution of emission permits
Gϋnter Lang Where are the gains from Kyoto?
Estimating the effects of global warming on
agriculture in Germany
Inés Macho-Stadler and
David Pérez-Castrillo
Optimal enforcement
policy and firms' emissions and
compliance with environmental
taxes
J-Competition II Room 218 Luca
Colombo and Paola
Labrecciosa
Capital accumulation and the intensity of market
competition: a differential game
Roberto Roson
Platform competition with endogenous
multihoming
Catherine Matraves and Laura Rondi
Product differentiation, turbulence and sustainability of
competitive advantage
K-Game Theory Room 256 Luca
Lambertini and Andrea Mantovani
Process and product innovation: a differential
game approach to product life cycle
Hannu Vartiainen
A simple model of secure public
communication
Hans-Theo Normann
Equilibrium vertical foreclosure in the
repeated game
Friedel Bolle and Yves
Breitmoser
Dynamic competition with
irreversible moves
Program of Parallel Sessions 24/24
L-Public Economics & Welfare Room 257 Leonardo
Becchetti, Giorgio
Federico and Nazaria
Solferino
The game of social responsability: pioneers,
imitators and social welfare
Doina Maria Radulescu and
Michael Stimmelmayr
To incorporate or not to incorporate?
Quantifying the welfare loss of non-uniform taxation
across sectors
Benjamin H. Liebman and
Kasaundra M. Tomlin
Steel safeguards and the welfare of US
steel firms
Johannes Münster
Simultaneos inter- and intra-group conflicts
M-E-Commerce & Internet Room 258 Rosa Branca
Esteves Pricing with customer
recognition Eric Jahn and
Jens Prüfer Transit versus (paid)
peering: interconnection and competition in the Internet backbone
market
Kai Sülzle Stable and efficient electronic business
networks: key players and the dilemma of
peripheral firms