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23 April
Location: Norwegian School of Economics
09.00 – 09-45
Registration and coffee
9.45 – 10.00
Agnar Sandmo’s Auditorium
Welcome
Tommy Gabrielsen, Department of Economics, UoB, and Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE)
10.00 – 11.00
Agnar Sandmo’s Auditorium
Keynote: The Current State of the Theory of Collusion: Unexplained Phenomena and Unexplored Directions
Joe Harrington, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: The Current State of the Theory of Collusion: Unexplained Phenomena and Unexplored Directions
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 12.30
Parallel sessions:
- Health and Economics (Agnar Sandmo’s Auditorium)
- Mergers (Auditorium A)
- Competition Law 1 (Auditorium 24)
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.30
Agnar Sandmo’s Auditorium
Vertical Restraints
- Secret Contracting and Interlocking Relationships
Thibaud Vergé, CREST and BECCLE
Presentation: Secret Contracting and Interlocking Relationships - Partial Exclusion with Market-Share Contracts
Greg Shaffer, University of Rochester and BECCLE - All Unit Discount and Moral Hazard
Daniel O’Brien, Indiana University
Presentation: All Units Discounts and Double Moral Hazard
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee
16.00 – 17.00
Agnar Sandmo’s Auditorium
Keynote: Restrictions by object
David Bailey, Brick Court Chambers and King’s College, London
18.00 –
Dinner at Cornelius på Holmen
for participants with papers and invited guests.
The Boat departs at 18.00 from Dreggekaien, just across from Clarion Hotel Havnekontoret at Bryggen. Transport from the Norwegian School of Economics will be arranged.
24 April
08.30 – 09.00
Coffee
09.00 – 10.00
Finn Kydland’s Auditorium
Keynote: Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes
Co-operation
Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics
Paper: Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition”
10.00 – 10.30
Coffee
10.30 – 12.00
Parallel sessions:
- Collusion (Room: Auditorium A)
- Innovation (Room: Finn Kydland’s Auditorium)
- Vertical Restraints 1 (Room: Auditorium D)
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch
13.00 – 14.00
Parallel sessions:
- Sanctions (Room: Auditorium C)
- Competition Law 2 (Room: Auditorium 14)
- Coordination (Room: Auditorium 23)
14.00 – 15.30
Parallel sessions:
- Competition Law 3 (Room: Auditorium 14)
- Empirical Studies (Room: Auditorium C)
- Vertical Restraints 2 (Room: Auditorium 23)
15.30 – 15.45
Coffee
15.45 – 17.15
Finn Kydland’s Auditorium
Cartels – Why looking under the lamppost might actually work
with Frode Steen, Norwegian School of Economics and BECCLE, Nikolaus Fink, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Ari Hyytinen, School of Business and Economics, University of Jucäskyla
Presentations:
- Why looking under the lamppost might actually work
- Registered Cartels in Austria – An Overview
- Anatomy of Cartel Contracts
17.15
End of conference