Programme

Keynote: Tommaso Valletti* (Chief Competition Economist of DG Competition, Imperial College London and University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

session a: Competition

Chair: Michiel Denkers* (ACM)

• Ex-post analysis of Dutch supermarket merger (Paolo Buccirossi*, LEAR) | Discussant: Alexis Walckiers* (BMA-ABC)
• Ex-post study of remedies at British airports (Borbála Szathmáry*, CMA) | Discussant: Jan Kees Winters* (RBB)
• Ex-post analysis of packaging waste market de-monopolization (Arno Rasek*, Bundeskartellamt) | Discussant: Maarten Pieter Schinkel* (University of Amsterdam)

session b: Consumer Protection

Chair: Monique van Oers* (ACM)

• Impact assessment of a new intervention approach for kebab entrepreneurs (Wendy Verdonk-Kleinjan*, Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA)) | Discussant: Peter Vikström* (Konsumentverket)
• Measuring compliance (Mariëlle Jansen*, Dutch Center for Crime Prevention and safety (CCV)) | Discussant: Thomas Dirkmaat* (Ministry of Economic Affairs)
• Measuring consumer detriment and improving consumer policy (Christian Thorun*, ConPolicy) | Discussant: Kati Cseres* (Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics)

session c: Health Care

Chair: René Jansen* (Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa))

• Evaluating policy interventions in health insurance markets (Johannes Spinnewijn*, LSE) | Discussant: Erik Schut* (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Competitive effects of hospital mergers (David Balan*, FTC)| Discussant: Marcel Canoy* (ACM)
• Quality effects at hospital mergers (Ron Kemp*, ACM)  | Discussant: Kate Collyer* (Competition and Markets Authority)

session d:Telecom and Energy Regulation

Chair: Johan Keetelaar* (ACM)

• “Ex-post evaluation of competition policy enforcement in energy markets: the E.ON abuse of dominance case” (Tomaso Duso* (DIW Berlin and Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE))) | Discussant: Anneke François* (ACM)
• Ex-post analysis of two mobile operator mergers in Austria (Anton Schwarz*, Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR)) | Discussant: Paul de Bijl* (Radicand Economics and Utrecht University)
• Analysis of investments in electricity networks in Europe (Carlo Cambini*, Politecnico di Torino) | Discussant: Michiel Bijlsma* (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

Keynote: Massimo Motta* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE and former DG Competition)

Panel discussion of (former) Chief Economists: Massimo Motta* (former EC), Kai-Uwe Kühn* (former EC, UEA and DICE), Jarig van Sinderen* (ACM), and Tommaso Valletti* (EC)

Moderator: Pierluigi Sabbatini* (Italian Competition Authority (AGCM))