Fellows Jose L. Moraga Gonzalez and Sander Onderstal would like to invite you to join the next workshop of the Organization and Markets research group at Tinbergen Institute. The workshop will touch upon Competition Policy issues such as Collusion, Mergers, Innovation, and Two-Sided Markets.
Please click [here] for a complete, printer-friendly version of the program (draft November 30).
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Program
9:45-10:00 Welcome to Tinbergen Institute
10:00–10:50 Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse School of Economics, France)
Collusion in Two-Sided Markets (joint with J. Pinho)
Discussion initiated by Cedric Argenton (Tilburg University)
10:50–11:40 Giulio Federico (European Commission, Belgium)
Horizontal Mergers and Product Innovation (joint with G. Langus and T. Valetti)
Discussion initiated by TBA
11:40–11:55 Tea break
11:55–12:45 Saish Nevrekar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India)
Mergers and Innovation Portfolios (joint with E. Motchenkova and JL Moraga)
Discussion initiated by Giulio Federico (EC) and Yassine Lefouili (TSE).
12:45-13:30 Lunch break
13:30–14:20 Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam)
State-Aided Price Coordination in the Dutch Mortgage Market (with Mark Dijkstra)
Discussion initiated by Bastiaan Overvest (CPB)
14:20–15:10 Iwan Bos (Maastricht University)
Industry impact of cartels: evidence from the stock market (joint with W. Letterie and N. Scherl)
Discussion initiated by TBA
15:10-15:25 Coffee break
15:25–16:15 Jurre Thiel (VU Amsterdam)
Discussion initiated by Evgenia Motchenkova (VU Amsterdam)
16:15-17:05 Jan Tichem (Authority for Consumers and Markets)
Lower drug prices can improve innovation (joint with M. Canoy)
Discussion initiated by TBA
17:05 Drinks and dinner (upon invitation)
