2006 – Essen

Annual Meeting of the Committee for Industrial Economics, 13–14 March, 2006

Monday, 13 March, 2006

  • 9.00 - 10.15 am: Victor Dorofeenko, Larry H. P. Lang, Klaus Ritzberger and Jamsheed Shoris, "Who Controls Allianz? Measuring the Separation of Dividend and Control Rights Under Cross-Ownership Among Firms"

 Discussion: Achim Wambach

  • 10.15 - 10.30 am: Evelyn Korn, "The Information Content of Mandatory Disclosures"

 Discussion: to be announced

  • 11.30 - 11.45 am: Coffee Break
  • 11.45 am - 1.00 pm: Engelbert J. Dockner and Kazuo Nishimura, "Private Investment of a Public Project? A Multi-Period Analysis"

Discussion: to be announced

  • 1.00 - 2.00 pm: Lunch
  • 2.00 - 3.15 pm: Thomas Gehrig and Rune Senbacka, "Two at the Top: Quality Differentiation in Markets with Switching Costs"

Discussion: to be announced

  • 3.15 - 3.30 pm: Coffee Break
  • 3.30 - 4.45 pm: Martin Peitz and Paul de Bijl, "Access Regulation and the Adoption of a New Technology - the Case of VoIP"

 Discussion: Georg Götz

  • 4.45 - 5.00 pm: Coffee Break
  • 5.00 - 6.30 pm: Dirk Engel, "Overview on RWI Data"
  • from 8.00 pm: Dinner

Tuesday, 14 March, 2006

  • 9.00 - 10.15 am: Thomas Harr and Thomas Roende, "Regulation of Banking Groups"

Discussion: Karl Morasch

  • 10.15 - 10.30 am: Coffee
  • 10.30 - 11.45 am: Burcin Yurtoglu, "The Determinants of Merger Waves"

Discussion: Dirk Czarnitzki

  • 11.45 - 12.45 am: General Assembly
  • 12.45 am - 1.45 pm: Lunch
  • 1.45 - 3.00 pm: Roman Inderst and Christian Wey, "How Strong Buyers Spur Upstream Innovation"

Discussion: Anette Boom (to be confirmed)

  • 3.00 pm: Conclusion and end of meeting