1st Workshop on the Economics of ICTs

3rd Workshop on the
Economics of ICTs
March 22nd and 23rd, 2012
University of Oporto
http://cefup.fep.up.pt/icts
Scientific Committee:
Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)
Luís Cabral (New York University)
Jeremy Fox (The University of Michigan)
Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics)
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)
Organizers:
António Brandão (CEF-UP)
Duarte Brito (CEFAGE-UE)
Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE)
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Sponsors
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Program Overview
Thursday, March 22nd
08:45-09:00
09:00-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-12:45
Welcome Address:
Session 0: Young Researchers
Coffee Break
Session 1: Investment
12:45-13:45
Keynote Speech / Lunch
13:45-16:15
16:15-16:30
16:30-18:30
20:00
Session 2: Mobile Telecommunications
Coffee Break
Session 3: Network Effects
Workshop Dinner
Friday, March 23rd
08:30-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-12:45
Session 4: Media
Coffee Break
Session 5: Two-Sided Markets
12:45-13:45
Keynote Speech / Lunch
13:45-15:45
15:45-16:00
16:00-17:30
17:30-17:45
17:45-18:00
Session 6: Net Neutrality
Coffee Break
Policy Panel: Network Neutrality
ANACOM Award
Closing Speech
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Program
Thursday, March 22nd (ROOM: 631)
08:45-09:00
Welcome Address
09:00-10:30
Session 0: Young Researchers
Chair and discussant: Ricardo Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Schumpeterian Entrepreneurial Pricing of Tie-Innovative Cable Services
João Leitão (Univ. of Beira Interior and CEG-IST)
Teams in open innovation - the mass collaboration technology
Aida Isabel Tavares (GOVCOPP and University of Aveiro)
Broadband Availability and School Performance in Brazil: an
exploratory analysis
Hildebrando Rodrigues Macedo (Anatel)
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:45
Session 1: Investment
Chair: Helena Szrek (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
How to provide access to next generation networks? The effect of risk
allocation on investment and cooperation incentives
Christian M. Bender (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
Discussant: Frago Kourandi (Telecom ParisTech)
Incentive to Invest in improving the Quality of Service in
Telecommunication Industry
François Jeanjean (France Télécom Orange)
Discussant: Leon Zucchini (LMU Munich)
Can Access Price Indexation Promote Efficient Investment in Next
Generation Networks?
David Henriques (NYU and Nova SBE)
Discussant: Bruno Basalisco (Ofcom)
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12:45-13:45
Keynote Speech / Lunch
Advertising Congestion and Media Economics
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
13:45-16:15
Session 2: Mobile Telecommunications
Chair: J. Correia da Silva (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
Unit Price Auction Procedures
Yumiko Baba (Aoyamagakuin University)
Discussant: Luís Cabral (NYU, IESE and CEPR)
Termination-Based Price Discrimination: Tariff-Mediated Network
Effects and the Fat-Cat Effect
Jörg Claussen (Ifo Institute Munich)
Moritz Trüg (LMU Munich)
Leon Zucchini (LMU Munich)
Discussant: Gal Oestreicher-Singer (Tel Aviv University)
Decomposing first mover advantages in the mobile
telecommunications industry
J.P. Eggers (NYU)
Michał Grajek (ESMT)
Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich)
Discussant: François Jeanjean (France Télécom Orange)
How much Number Portability reduces Switching Costs?: Experience
from the Japanese Mobile Market
Taiju Kitano (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Hiroshi Ohashi (University of Tokyo)
Discussant: Tiago Ribeiro (INDERA and CENSOC)
16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
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16:30-18:30
Session 3: Network Effects
Chair: António Brandão (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
Paying for Content or Paying for Community? The Effect of Social
Computing Platforms on Willingness to Pay in Content Websites
Gal Oestreicher-Singer (Tel Aviv University)
Lior Zalmanson (Tel Aviv University)
Discussant: Sergey Lychagin (Central European University)
Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration
Sergey Lychagin (Central European University)
Discussant: Michał Grajek (ESMT)
Lock in and Switch: Asymmetric Information And New Product
Diffusion
Luís Cabral (NYU, IESE and CEPR)
Discussant: Joan Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona)
20:00
Workshop Dinner
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Friday, March 23rd (ROOM: 631)
08:30-10:30
Session 4: Media
Chair: H. Vasconcelos (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
Competition in the media industry: to create versions or to allow links?
Joan Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona)
Guillem Ordóñez (Universitat de Barcelona)
Discussant: Christian M. Bender (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
Estimating the demand for Bundles
Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE)
Tiago Ribeiro (INDERA and CENSOC)
João Vareda (CEFAGE-UE)
Discussant: Hiroshi Ohashi (University of Tokyo)
News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet
Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
Nikrooz Nasr Esfahani (Toulouse School of Economics)
Discussant: David Henriques (NYU and Nova SBE)
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:45
Session 5: Two-Sided Markets
Chair: Joana Resende (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
Managerial Incentives and Competition in Two-sided Markets
Dragan Jovanovic (University of Düsseldorf)
Discussant: Yumiko Baba (Aoyamagakuin University)
Mobile platforms and business model innovation: an asymmetric
duopoly model with advertising and consumer heterogeneity
Bruno Basalisco (Ofcom)
Discussant: João Vareda (CEFAGE-UE)
Multidimensional Product Design
André Veiga (Toulouse School of Economics)
E. Glen Weyl (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
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12:45-13:45
Keynote Speech / Lunch
The value of incumbency in heterogenous network
Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)
13:45-15:45
Session 6: Net Neutrality
Chair: Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Network neutrality debate: investment and integration
Duarte Brito (UNL and CEFAGE-UE)
Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE)
João Vareda (CEFAGE-UE)
Discussant: Dominik Grafenhofer (Max Planck Institute)
Net Neutrality with Competing Internet Service Providers
Marc Bourreau (Telecom ParisTech and CREST-LEI)
Frago Kourandi (Telecom ParisTech)
Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London, Telecom ParisTech and CEPR)
Discussant: Dragan Jovanovic (University of Düsseldorf)
Price Discrimination and the Hold-Up Problem: A Contribution to the
Net-Neutrality Debate
Dominik Grafenhofer (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
Discussant: E. Glen Weyl (University of Chicago)
15:45-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
Policy Panel: “Network Neutrality”
Chair:
José Amado da Silva (Anacom)
Participants:
Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics)
Jan Krancke (Deutsche Telekom)
Marc Lebourges (Orange)
Jérémie Zimmermann (La Quadrature du Net)
17:30-17:45
ANACOM Award
Award presented by José Amado da Silva, President of ANACOM
17:45-18:00
Closing Speech
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