2008 – Karlsruhe

• 7.00 pm: Get together at "Vogelbräu"

• 9.00 am: Welcome

• 9.15 - 10.15 am: Siegfried K. Berninghaus, Werner Güth, Christian Hoppe, Christian Paul, "Duopolistic Hiring and Sales Competition. A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis"

Discussant: Stefan Bühler

• 10.15 - 10.30 am: Coffee Break

• 10.30 - 11.30 am: Markus Reisinger, Monika Schnitzer, "A Model of Vertical Oligopolistic Competition"

Discussant: Evelyn Korn

• 11.30 - 12.30 am: Roland Strausz, "Planned Obsolescence as an Incentive Device for Unobservable Quality"

Discussant: Peter-J. Jost

• 12.30 am - 2.00 pm: Lunch at University

• 2.00 - 3.00 pm: Armin Schmutzler, "The Relation between Competition and Innovat ion. Why Is It such a Mess?"

Discussant: Georg Götz

• 3.00 - 3.15 pm: Coffee Break

• 3.15 - 4.15 pm: Günter Knieps, Patrick Zenhäusern, "The Fallacies of Network Neutrality Regulation"

Discussant: Fritz Rahmeyer

• 4.15 - 5.15 pm: Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted, Thomas Ronde, "Human Capital, Patent Activity and Technology Spillovers"

Discussant: Hariolf Grupp

• 5.15 - 5.30 pm: Presentation of ISI’s Work by Knut Koschatzky

• 5.30 - 6.00 pm: General Assembly

• from 6.30 pm: Diner at Hotel "Kaiserhof"

• 9.00 - 10.00 am: Friedel Bolle, "Cost Function Equilibria. Can More Competitors Imply Higher Prices?"

Discussant: Susanne Wied-Nebbeling

• 10.00 - 10.15 am: Coffee Break

• 10.15 - 11.15 am: Sandro Schirillo, Peter Zweifel, "Russian Gas to Western Europe. A Game-theoretic Analysis"

Discussant: Sabine Böckem