V INTERTIC CONFERENCE

University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, October 11, 2011, Aula Trentin a Ca' Dolfin

with the V Stackelberg Lecture by Xavier Vives (Iese Business School, Barcelona) on Innovation and Competitive Pressure

THE PROGRAM

08:30-09:15 Registration
Introduction by Federico Etro (University of Venice and Intertic)

09:15-12:30 Morning sessions:

Session 1: Market Structure and Competitive Pressure
- Competition in services and efficiency of manufacturing firms: does "liberalization" matters? by Emanuele Forlani (Lessius University College, Belgium)
- What does market structure reveal? by Giovanni A. Tabacco (University of East Anglia)
- The social welfare effect of tying in a vertically differentiated market for system goods by Georgi Burlakov (Cerge-EI, Prague)

Session 2: The Economics of Online Advertising
- A note on vertical search engines foreclosure by Emanuele Tarantino (University of Bologna))
- Paying positive to go negative: advertisers’ competition and media reports by Andrea Blasco, Paolo Pin and Francesco Sobbrio (University of Bologna, University of Siena and IMT)
- Regulating one side of a two-sided market by Lapo Filistrucchi, Luigi Luini and Andrea Mangani (University of Florence and Tilec, Tilburg University)
- The impact of the Internet on advertising markets for news media by Susan Athey, Emilio Calvano and Joshua S. Gans (Harvard University, Bocconi University and University of Toronto)

12:30 -13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Session 3: V Stackelberg Lecture Presentation by Guido Cazzavillan and Federico Etro (University of Venice)

Lecture by Xavier Vives (Iese Business School, Barcelona, Spain) on INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVE PRESSURE – Q&A

15:00 – 18:30 Afternoon sessions:

Session 4: Innovation, IP and Standardization
- Essential patents and standard dynamics by Justus Baron, Knut Blind and Tim Pohlmann (CERNA, MINES ParisTech and Technische Universitat Berlin)
- Innovating standards through informal consortia: The case of wireless telecommunications by Henry Delcamp and Aija Leiponen (CERNA, MINES ParisTech and Cornell University and Imperial College)
- Always one step ahead? Firms’ strategy’s impact on susceptibility to copy of intellectual property by Knut Blind and Theresa Veer (Technische Universitat Berlin)
- Taste for exclusivity and Intellectual Property Rights by Dominik Grafenhofer and Christian Kiedaisch (Toulouse School of Economics and ETH Zurich)

Session 5: Competition policy and Regulatory Issues in the New Economy
- Program Quality and Exclusive Provision by Anna D’Annunzio (Toulouse School of Economics)
- Strategic bypass deterrence by Francis Bloch and Axel Gautier (Ecole Polytechnique and Universitè de Liège)
- Can access price indexation promote efficient investment in next generation networks? by David Henriques (New York University, Stern School of Business)

19:30 Gala dinner at HARRY'S BAR BY CIPRIANI

Other papers: Unified Two-sided Market Model by Iana Kouris (McKinsey & Co. Frankfurt and Department of Technology and Innovation, RWTH Aachen); R&D Coordination in Standard Setting Organizations: the role of Consortia by Justus Baron, Yann Meniere and Tim Pohlmann (CERNA, MINES ParisTech and Technische Universitat Berlin); Competition, Innovation, and the Sources of Product Quality and Productivity Growth by Joel M. David (University of California, Los Angeles); Optimal Capacity Sharing of a Two-sided Monopoly Platform by Chokri Aloui and Khaïreddine Jebsi (University of Sousse); Optimal Antitrust Auditing and Cartel Pricing by Mehdi Feizi (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joint Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing Among Rivals by Nicola Jentzschy, Geza Sapiz and Irina Suleymanova () ; Stackelberg Game and R&D Investments: Are there First Mover Advantages? by Apostolis Pavlou (Athens University of Economics and Business).

Below, the Aula Trentin where the conference will take place (click on it for a map of the location).