2011 – Vienna
Wednesday, 23 February, 2011
- 08.00 pm: Get together at Melker Stiftskeller, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Vienna
Thursday, 24 February, 2011
- 9.00 - 9.15 am: Welcome
- 9.15 am - 12.30 pm: Session I - Labour Markets & Rich Men, Moderation: Peter-J. Jost, WHU Vallendar
"Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning" (PDF, not accessible, 478 KB) (C. Alós-Ferrer and J. Prat)
Speaker: Carlos Alós-Ferrer, University of Konstanz
Discussant: Ulrich Kamecke, HU Berlin
"The Impact of Immigration on Natives' Wages: Heterogeneity following from Product and Labor Market Regulation" (PDF, not accessible, 447 KB) (S. Prantl and A. Spitz-Oener)
Speaker: Susanne Prantl, University of Cologne
Discussant: Christine Zulehner, Unversity of Linz
- 11.15 - 11.30 am: Coffee break
"Rich man and Lazarus - Asymmetric Endowment in Public-Goods Experiments" (PDF, not accessible, 19,1 KB) (C. Keser, A. Markstädter, M. Schmidt and C. Schnitzler)
Speaker: Claudia Keser, Göttingen University
Discussant: Mathias Erlei, Clausthal University
- 12.30 - 1.15 pm: Lunch at Stiegl-Ambulanz, Im Alten AKH (UNI-Campus, Hof 1), Alserstraße 4 (accessable viar: Spitalgasse 2), A-1090 Vienna
- 1.15 - 5.30 pm: Session II - Mergers and Collusion, Moderation: Winand Emons, University of Bern
"Merger Policy with Merger Choice" (PDF, not accessible, 506 KB) (V. Nocke and M. Whinston)
Speaker: Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim
Discussant: Thomas Gehrig, University of Vienna
"Efficiency Defence of Horizontal Merger" (PDF, not accessible, 111 KB) (M. Neumann)
Speaker: Manfred Neumann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Discussant: Markus Walzl, University of Bamberg
- 3.15 - 3.30 pm: Coffee break
"Banning Information Exchange to Fight Collusion? Bananas and Beyond" (PDF, not accessible, 115 KB) (D. Gärtner and C. Roux)
Speaker: Dennis Gärtner, University of Zurich
Discussant: Oliver Fabel, University of Vienna
"Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry" (PDF, not accessible, 270 KB) (T. Gantumur and A. Stephan)
Speaker: Andreas Stephan, Jönköping IBS
Discussant: Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich
- 5.30 - 6.15 pm: Meeting of members
- 7.00 pm: Dinner at the restaurant "Zum alten Fassl", Ziegelofengasse 37, 1050 Vienna with Dinner Speech by the Accenture Country Managing Director Klaus Malle.
Friday, 25 February, 2011
- 9.00 am - 1.15 pm: Session III - Competition and Competitive Advantage, Moderation: Oliver Fabel, University of Vienna
"Strategic Delegation and Dynamic Competition" (PDF, not accessible, 181 KB) (E. Dockner and C. Löffler)
Speaker: Engelbert Dockner, WU Vienna
Discussant: Felix Höffler, WHU
"Real-time Pricing in Power Markets: Who gains?" (A. Boom)
Speaker: Anette Boom, Copenhagen BS
Discussant: Burcin Yurtoglu, WHU
- 11.00 - 11.15 am: Coffee break
"Targeted Advertising in Magazine Markets" (PDF, not accessible, 171 KB) (A. Chandra and U. Kaiser)
Speaker: Ulrich Kaiser, University of Zurich
Discussant: Erik Lehmann, University of Augsburg
"Persuading Consumers with Social Attitudes" (PDF, not accessible, 126 KB) (S. Bühler and D. Halbheer)
Speaker: Stefan Bühler, University of St. Gallen
Discussant: Gerd Mühlheusser, Bielefeld University
- 1.15 pm: Snack